From the government’s press release: ATLANTA – Two international computer hackers, Teodor Laurentiu Costea and Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, were extradited from Romania and arraigned on federal charges of wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, and aggravated identity theft. A federal grand jury returned the 31-count superseding indictment on August 16, 2017. Cosmin…
Category: Of Note
Do you have a Twitter account? If so, reset your password now
From Twitter, May 3, posted by Paraga: When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it. We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We have fixed the bug, and our investigation shows no indication…
1.13M Patient Records Breached From January to March 2018
Proprietary data from Protenus shows disclosed breaches are just one one-thousandth of the actual risk health systems routinely carry 1,129,744 patient records were breached between January and March 2018, according to new data released today in the Protenus Breach Barometer. Published by Protenus, an artificial intelligence platform used by top health systems to analyze every…
Australia’s Largest Bank Lost The Personal Financial Histories Of 12 Million Customers
Paul Farrell reports: The Commonwealth Bank lost the personal financial histories of 12 million customers, and chose not to reveal the breach to consumers, in one of the largest financial services privacy breaches ever to occur in Australia. BuzzFeed News can reveal that the nation’s largest bank lost the banking statements for customers from 2004…
Hackers target Georgia Southern, Augusta restaurants
So if you want to prove a hacking bill is a bad idea, engaging in black hat/grey hat activities may not be the best way to persuade people. Tom Corwin reports: A hacking group upset with Georgia legislation that could criminalize what they do targeted Georgia Southern University and two Augusta restaurants in an ongoing…
The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
Nicholas Schmidle reports: One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, on a cybersecurity team. At the time, Sandia was managed by the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. When hundreds of computers…