Following the disclosure by Community Health Systems in an SEC filing that they suspected Chinese hackers were responsible for the theft of 4.5 million patients’ information, the FBI sent out a “Flash” warning to alert the the healthcare sector that it was being targeted by hackers. It was the second warning they had issued in a period of a few months. In…
Category: Hack
JP: Hacker who framed computer users with cyberthreats jailed for 8 years
Tomohari Osaka reports: The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday handed down an eight-year prison term to a hacker who hijacked computers and used them to send malicious threats, leading to the erroneous arrest of the devices’ unsuspecting owners. The case, which dates back to 2012, raised questions about policing practices after four people were wrongfully…
And then I stumbled across these hacks by Zyklon
Seen on Pastebin, dated January 15: Hacked By Zyklon #Wonkasec WonkaSec Temp Homepage: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/Index%285%29.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/zyclonb4u Website Hacked: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu Very small portion of the accounts, the other 90,000+ will be posted here: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/DbDump.php The accounts with .edu emails are most likely professors, if you are in college…
FBI put Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist
Ed Pilkington reports: The prominent Anonymous “hacktivist” Jeremy Hammond, who participated in some of the hacking collective’s most audacious cyber acts, was placed by the FBI on a terrorism watchlist, the Daily Dot reported on Monday. The internet news website obtained a leaked document from the New York state division of criminal justice services that shows Hammond…
Tweets that give me a knot in my stomach, Monday edition
32 edu sites all vuln to the same sql injection vuln….. this is going to be fun — abdilo (@abdilo_) February 2, 2015 and .@jessysaurusrex@g33kspeed@sambowne to put your mind at ease here is the amount in all the dbs together from the 0day sqli: 9,468,248 — abdilo (@abdilo_) February 2, 2015 If/when he posts a…
VT: Security breach at local dry cleaners
Rachel Karcz reports Fabricare has been hacked and customer credit card data was stolen. View the news segment on WPTZ. A copy of Fabricare’s notification to customers was uploaded today to the Vermont Attorney General’s site here (pdf). The short version: If you used a credit card at any one of our locations between April 1st 2014 and…