David Twiddy reports: Two former University of Central Missouri students have been charged with stealing the identities of thousands of their classmates and faculty with the goal of the information. A federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted Joseph A. Camp, 26, of New York, and Daniel J. Fowler, 21, of Kansas City, with conspiracy,…
Category: Malware
NZ: Hawke’s Bay man used keyloggers to capture public wi-fi users’ bank logins
Just a man and his keylogger. A computer-hacking fraudster has been given a community-based sentence for stealing $8538 from bank accounts via the internet. Judge Tony Adeane, in Napier District Court last Friday, sentenced Hawke’s Bay man Matthew Fraser, 25, to 200 hours of community work and ordered him to repay the money. Fraser had…
(update) Capitol Hill credit card fraud victim total nears 100, investigators suspect sniffers
jseattle provides the latest update on a string of fraud reports As we were first to report that a Secret Service electronic crimes task force has made a major break in its investigation of a wave of credit card fraud emanating from Capitol Hill, reports of fraudulent charges continue to pile up. More than 40…
Everywhere you look, there are breaches we didn’t know about…
Here are summaries of some other breach reports recently filed with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. I’ve tried to sort them or organize them somewhat as I am going through them. Some of the incidents affect only a few individuals, while others impact many more. Most of them have never been reported in the…
University of Oklahoma Neurology Clinic notifies almost 20,000 of security breach
In the process of updating PHIprivacy.net to reflect breaches newly disclosed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), I found reference to a breach for which I was able to find a companion statement. The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Neurology Clinic recently notified HHS of an incident affecting 19,264 patients. According to HHS’s…
NC: Researcher Yankaskas appeals pay cut, demotion
More details are emerging about why the breach involving the UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Mammography Registry led to consequences for the researcher. C. Ryan Barber reports: […] School of Medicine Office of Information Systems officials first alerted the University to the breach in July 2009 after uncovering a virus and potential security breach on the Carolina…