Jason D. O’Grady reports that some accounts were accessed during a recent DropBox security snafu: Earlier this week, we wrote to tell you about a security lapse at Dropbox. Today I am writing to tell you something I never expected to tell a customer. During our forensic analysis, we discovered that an extremely small number…
Category: Hack
Arizona state police confirm 2nd hack on officers’ email
Howard Fischer reports: A new computer attack Wednesday on the Department of Public Safety hit only officers’ outside and personal emails and, unlike last week, not the agency’s own computers, DPS Capt. Steve Harrison said. He said it appears the two incidents are linked, with those who broke into the DPS computers last week stealing…
DefenseNews hacked
Gregg Keizer reports: Email addresses and names of subscribers to DefenseNews, a highly-regarded website that covers national and international military and defense news, were accessed by hackers and presumed stolen, Gannett announced yesterday. DefenseNews ‘ subscribers include active and retired military personnel, defense contractors and others in both the U.S. and other countries’ defense establishments….
LulzSec Says Goodbye with New Data Dump
Ian Paul reports on the farewell message and data dump posted by LulzSec last night: … By far, the largest data trove is a compressed file containing nearly 600MB of internal AT&T data. The group also obtained what it says are a technical note from AOL; user names and passwords for employees of the investigative…
Meanwhile, over at Uber Leaks…
@UberLeaks has been busy revealing a bunch of recently hacked web sites. I’ve looked at the screenshots and tried to summarize the fields in the descriptions below. Note that #9 and #10 are flagged as it’s not clear which organization is associated with which data dump (if either) due to somewhat conflicting tweets. View this…
Nashville Zoo warns of website security breach
The Nashville Zoo sent an email alert to patrons warning of a possible breach in security on the zoo’s website that could result in the theft of customers’ credit card information. The email said law enforcement officials alerted zoo officials that reports of unauthorized credit card transactions appear to be connected to the zoo’s website….