Ohio-based Tremco, Inc. is notifying employees whose personal information – including Social Security numbers – was on a laptop left on an airplane June 17th by a Human Resources employee. The employee reported the loss immediately, but so far, the laptop has not been recovered. Several weeks after the loss, the employee realized that there…
Category: U.S.
Anonymous Hacks Waller County Sheriff’s Department Computers For Sandra Bland – Or Did They?
Zeidy David writes: Last month we reported on the “hacktivist” group Anonymous calling for a “Day of Rage” for Sandra Bland. The series of actions were given the name #OpSandraBland, and they warned of a wide range of attacks and fronts for hitting the Waller County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of Sandra. Now, Anonymous has announced…
Is the Veterans Administration doing enough in mitigating breaches? One veteran says “No.” Here’s why.
Benjamin Krause, an investigative reporter, Veterans law attorney, and a disabled veteran of the US Air Force, has a site called DisabledVeterans.org. One of his posts showed up in one of my searches, and I thought it was worth noting here. In the context of discussing a recent VA breach and government accountability, Benjamin writes: I personally had…
REMEMBER EMAD Attacks DoD: Claim
Remember Emad, a hacking crew that claimed to have attacked Israeli sites in March 2012, and to have attacked an Israeli Webgate server in August 2012 and dumped data, has apparently claimed to have attacked the Pentagon. Seen on Cryptome, August 1: from : REMEMBER EMAD crew to : Pentagon subject : op910 we are responsible…
Network Solutions customer sites defaced
Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…
Orange County Employees Association victim of hack
The Orange County Employees Association in Santa Ana, California is notifying an undisclosed number of people that their personal information, and that of their dependents, may have been accessed by hackers. In a notification to the state, OCEA writes that the attack, which appears to have occurred as early as June 5, was detected on July…