Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 25-year-old Italian man pleaded guilty this week for defacing NASA websites and 60 other Italian government sites back in 2013. The suspect, identified only by his initials of Z.R., was a member of the “Master Italian Hackers Team” that claimed responsibility for the hacks at the time on social media. Italian…
Category: Government Sector
IE: Cork local investigated over hacking of council’s parking app
The Journal reports: The Garda Computer Crime Unit has been drafted in to probe how 5,000 people’s personal information collected by Cork City Council had been illegally accessed by a hacker. Detectives in that garda unit are investigating the breach which saw thousands of people who used a parking app potentially having their data stolen….
“AlfabetoVirtual” Pleads Guilty To Hacking Websites For The Combating Terrorism Center At West Point And The New York City Comptroller
There’s an update to the case involving Billy Anderson, aka AlfabetoVirtual, who was pretty busy defacing sites for a year or more. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York earlier this week: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BILLY RIBEIRO ANDERSON, a/k/a “Anderson…
Texas congresswoman fires intern arrested for data leak
AP reports: A Houston Democratic congresswoman has fired an unpaid intern after he was arrested by the U.S. Capitol police for allegedly posting online the home addresses of Republican senators backing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Read more on HickoryRecord. FoxNews has additional details of concern: A Democratic congressional aide accused of publishing…
St. Petersburg timeline on Click2Gov raises questions as to whether the vendor was proactive or not
I have commented on the Click2Gov breach a few times — mostly wondering aloud why so many customers do not seem to have been made aware that they needed to update immediately, etc. Both RBS and FireEye have both discussed the Click2Gov incident in more depth. But now look at this disclosure from St….
Oklahoma DHS could have sent private medical info to wrong addresses
Dale Denwalt reports: Officials at the Department of Human Services said Monday that a small number of clients were affected this year by a computer error that labeled envelopes with incorrect addresses. A labeling error affected notices that informed patients and their guardians about changes to their plan of care. Letters were meant for people…