Mike Martindale reports: Police and Troy school officials are investigating a widespread hacking of the school district’s computer system. In a letter to parents obtained by The Detroit News, schools Superintendent Barbara Fowler said she told students and staff with accounts on the system to change their passwords so whoever’s responsible can’t access personal information….
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UK: Council documents full of personal information found strewn outside football ground
Emily Allen reports: Hundreds of council documents containing personal information were found strewn across the street outside a football ground. Fans on their way to Rochdale’s home match with Wycombe at Spotland found lists of names, addresses and phone numbers and a series of political papers. They included parts of the electoral register, a list…
Chaos Computer Club Expose and Analyze German Government malware
The German government has come under fire from a group called Chaos computer club after an anonymous submission has lead them to find out that the German government and police are using Trojan based malware to spy on people computers. content/images/gallery/random2/ccc.png In 2008 there was a court ruling stating that this was a form of wiring tapping and The…
More Government sites hacked and defaced by MCA-CRB
MCA-CRB has been busy over the past year amounting to over 1100+ defaced government based websites. Some of the most recent ones range from china, Indonesia, America, french and many many more. content/images/gallery/random2/hacked-by-mca-crb.png Follow MCA-CRB hacks on Zone-H
Turkish Energy Team attacks on government websites
Turkish Energy Team have been busy defacing a fair few different governments websites, some are just bunches of sub domains, which would say they have had access to the server or a common exploit across the system to deface such a mass of sites on the same system. In the defacing is a link to https://www.turkishteam.in/ and a live defacing can still be…
Citigroup Sued by Cardholders Over 2011 Security Breach
Citigroup, the 3rd largest bank in america has been sued by Kristina and Steven Orman of Northport, New York, who was repersenting the victims which affected 360k+ accounts. A weakness in Citigroup’s online security allowed hackers to use a “brute force data intrusion” to access thousands of cardholders’ accounts, the Ormans said. While Citigroup said the…