Kevin Krause reports: A Nigerian man living in the U.S. on a student visa faces federal wire fraud charges in connection with a sophisticated email phishing scam targeting businesses. Amechi Colvis Amuegbunam, 28, of Lagos, Nigeria, was arrested in Baltimore in August and charged with scamming 17 North Texas companies out of more than $600,000…
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Hillsides, a Pasadena child welfare agency, warns of data breach
Brian Day reports on another insider breach involving a HIPAA-covered entity: A Pasadena child welfare agency has warned of a computer security breach that may have exposed the personal information of nearly 1,000 clients and staff members. Hillsides, 940 Avenue 64, announced the data breach Wednesday. It was first discovered Dec. 8, when Hillsides officials…
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack–former employees
Joseph Menn reports on some poor decision-making by Microsoft that left hacking victims in the dark that their communications had been intercepted: Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but…
UConn website compromised, prompting users to download malicious program
Kyle Constable reports: The University of Connecticut’s website was compromised Sunday, prompting visitors to download a malicious program posing as Adobe Flash Player, according to a university spokesman. […] The university website’s DNS records – Internet protocols that associate the URL “uconn.edu” with the website’s server and content – were compromised around 11 a.m., Breen…
Criminal Hackers Target Police to Protest Perceived Injustices
Looks like DHS/FBI figured out that people were getting really, really angry over “perceived” injustices and “alleged” use of excessive force. Page Count: 1 page Date: May 8, 2015 Restriction: For Official Use Only Originating Organization: Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation File Type: pdf File Size: 264,818 bytes File Hash (SHA-256):C433AF5A1A1DB72EC7338EB28F4B76BD96509071496809B713DF56BB21ADBAED U//FOUO) Disruptive cyber attacks by criminal hackers—primarily…
“Not a creature was stirring” – well, except Chris Vickery
Three Lock Box is a construction escrow agency in Las Vegas. And while the name “lock box” might suggest security, unfortunately, they had a misconfigured MongoDB installation that exposed several million dollars in funds available in over 90 accounts. Chris Vickery uncovered the leaky database and contacted them immediately on December 24th because of concern that an attacker might be…