Jeffrey Collins of Associated Press reports: The Department of Revenue was more concerned with keeping employees from accessing news, sports and social media websites on their work computers than protecting taxpayer data like Social Security numbers, a former computer security chief at the agency said Thursday. Read more on Aiken Standard. Tim Smith of Greenville…
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AU: Hackers’ extortion bid on schools
I don’t recall ever seeing an media report on an extortion/ransom attempt on a school, but here’s a case out of Australia, where they also seem to have more media reports of ransomware in the healthcare and small business sectors than we do. As reported by the Herald Sun: Schools have emerged as a new…
Now-former student arrested in the University of Nebraska hack
Leslie Reed reports an arrest in a hacking incident that affected the University of Nebraska and state college system; A former computer science and math major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now faces a federal computer hacking charge from last spring’s breach of a key computer system serving both NU and the state college system….
A preview of SCDOR’s breach notification letter to those affected
South Carolina submitted a copy of the letter it will be sending out to the California Attorney General’s Office. You can read it here (pdf).
Stratfor hack update: Barrett Brown indicted
Barrett Brown, the self-proclaimed spokesperson for Anonymous, was indicted in Tuesday in Dallas. The newest charges against Brown relate to the use of stolen credit card and personal information from the Stratfor hack in December 2011, and this case is totally separate from other charges he faces for threatening an FBI agent. The first charge…
I know what GoTickets.com did last summer
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry asking how many breaches GoTickets.com had really experienced. At the time, it appeared that they had had one breach in May 2012, which they reported to California (and, as I recently learned, New Hampshire and Maryland), but there was a puzzling report from American Express that…