From the Metropolitan Police Dept. web site: Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested a 19-year-old man in a pre-planned intelligence-led operation. The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to…
Category: Non-U.S.
Executive Learns From Hack
Evan Ramstad reports about the lessons learned by one executive after the Hyundai Capital Services hack: … His biggest mistake, he says, was that he used to treat the information-technology department as simply one of many units that helped the company get its main job done. Today he treats it as central to everything the company…
Lulzsec 2011 census released – UPDATED – or not!
In a message that undoubtedly should send shudders down the spines of those involved in the security of UK census data, the hacking collective known as LulzSec posted a message on Pastebin yesterday: Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the…
Hackers claim 177K e-mails from Sony Pictures France
Erica Ogg reports: Sony’s turn as the whipping boy for Internet hackers continued over the weekend. Two hackers posted a list of e-mails they say they took from the Sony Pictures France Web site. The two hackers who claim responsibility are a Lebanese student who goes by the handle Idahc, and a French friend of his…
Sony Portugal latest to fall to hackers
On June 9, Chester Wisniewski wrote (but I missed): The same Lebanese hacker who targeted Sony Europe on Friday has now dumped a database from Sony Portugal. The hacker claims to be a grey hat, not a black hat, according to his post to pastebin.com. “I am not a black hat to dump all the…
UK: Photos and details of children from Redditch are stolen
Documents containing personal information and photos of children in north Worcestershire have been stolen. Around 40 of the passport-type documents relating to children who play for two football teams were taken from a football coach’s car in Redditch. Read more on BBC. The Redditch Advertiser also reports the theft, as does the West Mercia Police…