Back in December, I noted a breach involving Disqus comments disclosed by a group of investigative journalists calling themselves Research Group (ResearchGruppen) in Sweden. The researchers had been able to identify – and then “out” – pseudoanonymous commenters. Kevin Townsend had some interesting commentary on the case, while Disqus focused on denying any security breach of…
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War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
Mark Schone, Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole and Glenn Greenwald report: A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News. The blunt instrument the spy…
TX: 14,000 Midland ISD students risk identity theft because of sloppy security
From the oh-FFS-dept.: AP reports: The identity information of 14,000 past and present Midland Independent School District students has been compromised by a computer theft. Midland school Superintendent Ryder Warren says a laptop computer and external hard drive containing the information was stolen from the back of a district administrator’s car on Jan. 23. He…
Hearings Begin On Target Data Breach: Target CFO to testify tomorrow
Esme Murphy reports: Congress began a series of hearings Monday before a Senate banking subcommittee into the massive data breach at Target and other retailers. Lawmakers grilled the Secret Service about when Target told them about the breach, and another hearing is slated for Tuesday. That’s when Target CFO John Mulligan will be in the…
Turkish ISP TTNet and other carriers hacked by RedHack – claim
The Turkish hacktivist collective RedHack claims to have hacked Turkish ISP TTNET as well as mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell. They announced the hack this afternoon: Customer data of ISP TTNET, mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell infiltrated and vast amount of data collected from the systems. + — RedHack_EN (@RedHack_EN) February 3, 2014 They also claim…
South Korean card firms suspended over data breach
I remember the cheers at school football and basketball games, “We don’t mess around – HEY! We don’t mess around – HEY!” I thought of that while reading a news story this morning with a follow-up to a breach affecting 15-20 million South Korean credit card holders by a contractor’s employee: South Korean authorities have…