El Paso County Community College has been targeted due to pure lack of security, @DestructiveSec has been busy away in the servers taking what they wish snooping around and leaving a mess for them to clean up as well as a defaced website. The attack is due to lack of security and because they have failed to fix the exploits this…
Category: Breach Incidents
IE: Personnel files found dumped in industrial estate
Ralph Riegel reports: Files containing confidential information on private security staff were discovered in a box left unattended in an industrial estate. An investigation by the Data Protection Agency (DPA) is now under way into the discovery of files at Frankfield Industrial Estate in Cork. The files were removed by Cork County Council officials yesterday…
Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…
Bunch of defaced sites by @ColdHackers
Cold Hackers have been busy over the last year or so with over 3000 attacked websites they have been targeting mainly Turkish websites and also others in what could be seen as a cyber defacement battle that is constantly going. All defacements can be seen on Zone-H @Coldhackers on twitter
Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Richard Clarke Calls Out China as Major Source of Cyber Security Hacking, Espionage
WALTHAM, Mass.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Bit9 Inc., the market leader in adaptive application whitelisting, today released a video from Richard Clarke, a member of Bit9’s Board of Directors, the former Cybersecurity Czar for President George W. Bush and a noted expert on cyber war and counter-terrorism, in which Clarke identifies China’s government and its industries as a…
China suspect in US satellite interference – i call bullshit
WASHINGTON — NASA satellites were interfered with four separate times in 2007 and 2008, possibly by the Chinese military, according to a draft of an upcoming report for the US Congress. The latest draft of the report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said the computer hackers behind the interference gained the ability…