Posted by @Cyber_War_News to Pastebin today: Today has been interesting, to say the least. Skipping all the bullshit lets get right to the main stinky shit. Anonymous twitter user @AnonymousGlobo announced earlier today this: https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/547426305151860736 https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548537460691857408 Now after working with data leaks for years now it became clearly obvious to me that this was fake….
Category: Of Note
FBI warned Year Ago of impending Malware Attacks—But Didn’t Share Info with Sony
Jana Winter reports: Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S. companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance for U.S…
World’s Biggest Data Breaches
Ooh, pretty. Look what the folks at Information is Beautiful did with data from DataBreaches.net and the Identity Theft Resource Center: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/
FTC Charges Data Broker with Facilitating the Theft of Millions of Dollars from Consumers’ Accounts
Press release from the FTC: A data broker operation sold the sensitive personal information of hundreds of thousands of consumers– including Social Security and bank account numbers – to scammers who allegedly debited millions from their accounts, the Federal Trade Commission charged in a complaint filed today. According to the FTC’s complaint, data broker LeapLab bought…
Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identified
Oops. An overlooked server that was not configured for two-factor authentication became the weak link in JPMorgan’s defenses. Matthew Goldstein, Nicole Perlroth, and Michael Corkery report: The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted if the bank had installed a simple…
IN: AG Zoeller, Sen. Merritt propose legislation to protect Hoosiers from identity theft, data breaches
Press release: In response to growing concerns about online privacy and data protection, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller today announced a legislative proposal to provide greater safeguards of Hoosiers’ personal and financial information online. Zoeller’s proposal has three main components aimed at providing stricter requirements for the safe storage of sensitive data, reducing harm to…