Roger Belgrave reports: The Catholic school board has beefed-up its computer network security after one of its high school students hacked into the system last spring. Under direction from Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board has posted details of the computer security breach on its website at www.dpcdsb.org. Read more…
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Ca: Criminals hack into high school computer system to access FBI, CIA
Hackers have been using a Bay Area school district’s computer system to try hack into top secret government agencies. Like all school districts, the San Mateo Union High School District is heavily computerized with general public access and password only access to many of its files, but the district discovered a security breach after receiving…
ProjectWestWind: TeamGhostShell hacks and dumps 120,000 records from 100 U.S. and non-U.S. universities (updated)
Over on Softpedia, Eduard Kovacs alerts us all to a paste from a group of hackers who call themselves TeamGhostShell. In a paste today on Pastebin, they introduce “ProjectWestWind,” exposing the hacks and vulnerabilities in universities around the world. I’m deleting their rationale and links to data dumps, but here’s a bit of their…
The staggering cost of a data breach
Occasionally, I check Global Payments’ site for information on what their breach(es) last year cost them. Here’s what they reported in their SEC 10-K/A filing today: For the year ended May 31, 2012, we have recorded $84.4 million of expense associated with this incident. Of this amount, $19.0 million represents the costs we have incurred…
Potential Tulsa website hacker victims notified (update: nothing to see here, move along)
Glenn Schroeder reports: The City of Tulsa’s website is still down after a hacker infiltration. And now people who submitted job applications and police reports on-line are getting letters from the city, warning their personal information may be in the hands of a hacker. In the letter the city says, “The personal information that may…
Transcend Capital notifies clients after server hacked last month
Transcend Capital reports that its data server in Austin Texas was hacked during the week of August 20th. The compromised server held clients’ name, physical and e-mail addresses, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, security positions and cash positions. In a notification to the California Attorney General’s Office, James Kupfer, Chief Compliance Officer, notes that the…