Express News Service reports: The PG Council of Utkal University on Tuesday was forced to shift from the ongoing e-admission to offline admission following attempts to hack the admission website (www.eadmission.utkaluniversity.ac.in). Server of the website was deactivated by the university officials on Monday evening as there were frequent attempts to breach the security walls. This…
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UserVoice Security Incident
As posted on their site yesterday: Please see our blog post from May 9, 2016 announcing a security incident at https://community.uservoice.com/blog/uservoice-security-incident-notification/ What Happened? In late April, the UserVoice security team learned that an unauthorized party illegally accessed one of UserVoice’s backend reporting systems and was able to view user data on a small subset of users….
Ca: Law firm considers launching class action suit against Algonquin College over privacy breach
In June, 2015, Algonquin College in Ottawa disclosed that 1,225 students in the Bachelor of Information Technology and Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs had their personal information on a server that had been accessed. The server compromise occurred in December, 2014, but the college was initially unable to determine exactly what happened. Now a Toronto law…
Israelis in JPMorgan Hack Case to be Extradited
There’s an update to a case previously reported on this site. AFP reports: Israeli authorities have approved the extradition to the United States of two nationals indicted over a cyber attack against JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest computer frauds in history. Gery Shalon, 32, and 41-year-old Ziv Orenstein were arrested in Israel last July and will…
Breach at vendor’s results in Mayfield Brain & Spine patients receiving emails containing malware
CINCINNATI, OH: On February 23, 2016, many people began receiving a fraudulent email titled “Important Information: invoice 11471” from an unauthorized person who had accessed Mayfield Brain & Spine’s account at an outside vendor. This email was not sent by Mayfield. Mayfield notified recipients of the malicious email as soon as possible that same day,…
Man admits hacking to celebrities and stealing scripts
AP reports: A Bahamian man pleaded guilty to hacking into celebrities’ email accounts to steal unreleased movie and TV scripts, a crime that prosecutors say could have caused great harm to networks and movie studios if he had succeeded in selling them for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Alonzo Knowles, 24, entered the plea in…