Mike Anderson of McClatchy reports: The brand of servers targeted in an online security breach at Iowa State University is vulnerable to hacking attacks and is used by all three of Iowa’s state universities. ISU has 10 servers manufactured by Taiwanese hardware company Synology, five of which were subject to the attack disclosed Tuesday. The…
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Healthcare professionals in North Carolina victims of tax refund fraud
Last May, I reported on a breach affecting patients at Piedmont Healthcare and Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates in North Carolina whose website host, E-dreamz, had been hacked. At the time, I noted that not only patient data but some employee information was involved for Piedmont. Today, Kathryn Burcham of WSOC-TV reports that dozens of Piedmont Healthcare employees…
Iowa State IT staff discover unauthorized access to servers
Posted by Iowa State earlier today: Information technology staff at Iowa State University have discovered a breach affecting five departmental servers on campus. An extensive analysis has revealed the compromised servers contained Social Security numbers of 29,780 students enrolled at Iowa State between 1995 and 2012. There’s no evidence any of the data files were…
University of Virginia, Spokeo, Indiana among eight more sites hacked by NullCrew (update1)
Students and employees of the University of Virginia (UVa) may be scratching their heads today and wondering what UVa can or will do to secure its servers better. The university, which was hacked in 2012 by @AnonAntidote and again in 2013 by a former UVa student known as @R00tTh3B0x, has reportedly been hacked yet again –…
NullCrew hints at major hack
International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. I’d never heard of them, and would guess many readers haven’t either, but they seem to have caught NullCrew’s attention. Yesterday, the hackers posted something on Pastebin that revealed a database name, with corresponding database user name (“root”) and the database password in plain…
Moscow Hacker Faces Extradition Requests by U.S., Russia
David Voreacos and Maud van Gaal: A Muscovite accused of helping to lead the most prolific computer hacking ring to hit corporate America faces competing extradition requests by the U.S. and Russia. Vladimir Drinkman, who has been in custody in the Netherlands since his arrest on June 28, 2012, was the subject of an extradition…