One of the recurring themes in this site’s blog posts this year has been the fact that way too many entities not only store old data, but fail to secure it or protect it adequately from malware attacks or other attacks. Today’s unhappy example comes to us from Apollo Career Center (“Apollo”), an adult education…
Category: Hack
Recent decisions by the Singapore Data Protection
Two recent decisions by the Singapore PDPC. Breach of the Protection Obligation by ChampionTutor 14 Oct 2021 A financial penalty of $10,000 was imposed on ChampionTutor for failing to put in place reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data in its possession. The incident resulted in the personal data being exposed. The PDPC became aware…
Convicted SUNY Plattsburgh hacker’s sentencing adjourned, counsel seeks expert services
Fernando Alba of The Press-Republican reports: Convicted hacker and SUNY Plattsburgh alumnus Michael P. Fish’s sentencing has been adjourned again Thursday. Fish’s attorney asked for a 60-day extension to complete court approved expert witness services requested in August, according to court documents. Fish pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft, computer intrusion and child pornography possession…
Ukraine Police Cuff Botnet Herder Who Controlled 100K Machines
Phil Muncaster reports: Ukrainian law enforcers have arrested a suspected botnet herder responsible for controlling an automated network of around 100,000 compromised machines to launch DDoS and other attacks. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) claimed the resident of Ivano-Frankivsk also used the botnet to launch spam campaigns, scan for vulnerabilities in websites to exploit, and brute-force…
How I hacked ALL displays in my high school district to play Rick Astley
Minh Duong writes: On April 30th, 2021, I rickrolled my high school district. Not just my school but the entirety of Township High School District 214. It’s the second-largest high school district in Illinois, consisting of 6 different schools with over 11,000 enrolled students. This story isn’t one of those typical rickrolls where students sneak…
Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues to Fly
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A woman allegedly hacked into the systems of a flight training school in Florida to delete and tamper with information related to the school’s airplanes. In some cases, planes that previously had maintenance issues had been “cleared” to fly, according to a police report. The hack, according to the school’s CEO, could…