Rachael Herndon reports: Gary Findlay, executive director of Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System (MOSERS), notified state employees today — including state senators, representatives and Capitol staff — of unauthorized access to MOSERS member records. “On December 5, 2014, we confirmed four successful attempts beginning last month to fraudulently complete an online form for active members of…
Category: Hack
Hacker Group Anonymous Claims Credit For Oakland, OPD Website Shutdowns
CBS SF reports: The city of Oakland and the Oakland Police Department websites have been out intermittently since Tuesday night and the hacker group Anonymous is taking responsibility. City spokeswoman Karen Boyd said she began receiving reports that the websites were down Tuesday night. The websites have been down intermittently since then, but Boyd said…
Hackers contacted top Sony executives before attack
Martyn Williams reports: Top executives at Sony Pictures received an email extorting money three days before the company’s computer network was taken offline in a major hack. The email message was among thousands released on Monday when the email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online. It was the latest release of potentially embarrassing…
A Breakdown and Analysis of the December, 2014 Sony Hack
Risk Based Security (RBS) has posted a chronology and detailed analysis of the data dumps to date in the Sony hack. This is a must-read article for journalists or those interested in the scope of data types involved.
Officials report University of Oklahoma nursing web server compromised (updated)
NewsOK reports: The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center announced Monday that a College of Nursing Web server was compromised. University personnel discovered the security breach Oct. 20, according to a news release. While working to recover the system on Nov. 3, they learned the compromise could have enabled unauthorized access to sensitive data. University…
SG: Hacker jailed 6 months for attacking Prime Minister’s Office website and other offences
Ian Poh reports: Undeterred by the Government’s warning that it would deal with those who threaten to attack Singapore’s cyber infrastructure, a hacking enthusiast tested his skills on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website. Mohammad Azhar Tahir, 28, was sentenced to two months’ jail on Monday for entering unauthorised computer code into the site on…