Jared Savage reports: University students have been warned to watch out for anyone trying to steal their identity after a computer server holding personal information was hacked. An email sent this week by Stephen Whiteside, at the University of Auckland, said unauthorised parties had accessed a single server holding information such as name, date of…
Category: Hack
Researcher Creates Clearinghouse Of 14 Million Hacked Passwords
Andy Greenberg reports: Canadian researcher Ron Bowes has created a sort of Wall of Sheep for the entire Internet. By simply collecting all the publicly-spilled repositories of users’ passwords from recent hacking incidents, he’s created a clearinghouse for stolen passwords on his Web site–14,488,929 distinct passwords to be exact, collected from 32,943,045 users. Bowes didn’t…
Confessions of an ATM Hacker
Tracy Kitten writes: I caught up this week with Barnaby Jack, the so-called ethical hacker who cracked the operating systems of two retail ATMs during last month’s Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Vegas. Jack, who heads research for IOActive Labs, a privately held computer and network security firm in San Francisco, hacked two commonly…
AU: Hacker hits other councils across Ballarat region (update)
Benjamin Preiss reports that Ballarat Council was not the only council to have had their network compromised: Councils throughout western Victoria are counting the cost of a security breach to their online networks. The councils have undertaken security reviews and may conduct upgrades following illegal access to their systems. Yesterday it remained unclear how much…
AU: Hacker hits Ballarat City Council files
Benjamin Preiss reports: Ballarat City Council’s online network was in meltdown yesterday after it was discovered somebody had broken into the system. One source, who had specific details about the security scare, said a teenager from regional Victoria had gained access to the system. ”Essentially the level of access that’s available is complete and unrestricted…
Russian government email servers hacked
Evgeniya Chaykovskaya reports: On Monday it turned out that the Federal Service of Protection (FSO) is not that good at protecting its own privacy. Yesterday internet forums were bubbling with information about a hack into the FSO internal email system. The attack was aimed at an email server of one of the services’ departments, the…