Samantha Read reports: The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a former paramedic and, and another one turned himself in after warrants were issued for his arrest regarding a “selfie” war using patients in ambulances, some of whom were unconscious. Former Okaloosa County Emergency Medical Services paramedic Kayla Renee Dubois, 24, of Navarre, is charged…
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Hongkonger who launched over 6,000 web attacks during Occupy movement gets 15 months probation
Jasmine Siu reports: A Chinese University undergraduate who launched more than 6,000 attacks on Shanghai Commercial Bank’s website in 16 seconds in response to hacker group Anonymous Asia’s appeals during the Occupy protests in 2014 was sentenced to a 15-month probation order. Fanling Court also on Monday confiscated a Mac computer belonging to Chu Tsun-wai, 20, following…
Anyone know what healthcare facilities these are? 655,000 patient records up for sale on dark net (UPDATED)
Seen up for sale on a forum (I’m redacting the ads and samples): Healthcare Database (48,000 Patients) from Farmington, Missouri, United States This product is a considerably large database in plaintext from a healthcare organization in Farmington, Missouri, United States. It was retrieved from a Microsoft Access database within their internal network using readily available plaintext…
Carbonite forces password reset after password reuse attack
Should a company force an entire user password reset proactively because some users’ credentials, obtained elsewhere, are being used to attempt to steal their data? Carbonite, a provider of online computer and server backup services, notified its more than 1.5 million individual and small business customers that they were forcing a password reset. The reset, announced…
WVSU email accounts ‘compromised’ earlier this year
Jake Jarvis reports: Two-dozen student email addresses at West Virginia State University were “compromised” earlier this year, but the students weren’t told that someone else might have gotten into their accounts. WVSU’s information technology department received a list in March of about 1,600 email addresses. The person who sent the list said they had been…
Note claiming to be from DAO cryptocurrency hacker says stolen $53 million is legally his
You may feel like you’re entering the Twilight Zone after reading this report from Russell Brandom: One day after $53 million abruptly disappeared from an experimental cryptocurrency project, a note claiming to be from the attacker has surfaced on PasteBin, claiming that the money drained from the system is now legally his. The attacker withdrew the money by exploiting a…