Elaine Silvestrini reports: Thousands of local homeowners who relied on a national alarm business to protect their homes from intruders became victims of identity theft perpetrated by at least one employee of another company that sold them the security system, police say. “I went to them for security and I felt violated,” said Marilyn Varriale,…
Category: Breach Incidents
270+ Accounts leaked by Herxode
AMNESIA Magazine has become a victim of hacking and weak security after its website was hacked by Herxode and had over 270 accounts leaked. The leaked account also have clear text passwords which always makes me just ask that one big Question, What the hell was they thinking when they hired that developer. https://pastebin.com/n9fGRhZ3
International Institute of Information Technology hacked and accounts leaked by CYB3R-M4FI4
International Institute of Information Technology (https://alumni.iiit.ac.in/) has been hacked and had a dump of accounts leaked onto pastebin. all the accounts seem to be user accounts with emails, usernames and encrypted passwords. The institute was set up in the year 1998 with seed support from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The Institute strives to combine highest…
What Exactly Defines Cyber Crimes
Well in reaction to the last post about Obama administration seeking tougher laws for CyberCrimes i would now like to look at what the hell is really defined as a cyber crime. It would seem that a lot of people think that minor attacks of hacking nature are crime related therefor cyber crime, this is…
Obama administration seeking tougher penalties for hackers
Over the past few months we have seen close to 100 different raids for cyber crimes, with a lot of these being related to hacktivist, hacking teams like Anonymous and LulzSec there has been a lot of other cases a long the way as well. Last wednesday the Obama administration has announced that it is…
OR: Security lapse exposes 62 ODOT employees’ personal information
Peter Wong reports: A breach in computer data security exposed personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, of 62 current and former employees and others working with environmental programs of the Oregon Department of Transportation. The agency announced the breach this morning. The breach was called to the agency’s attention two weeks ago by…