Scott Dance reports: Nearly a year after a massive data breach at the University of Maryland, state auditors say the campus network is still vulnerable to hackers — in part because gaps they identified five years ago remain. While patching those holes would not have prevented the breach, auditors and university officials said Wednesday, some…
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Hacker Group Anonymous Claims Credit For Oakland, OPD Website Shutdowns
CBS SF reports: The city of Oakland and the Oakland Police Department websites have been out intermittently since Tuesday night and the hacker group Anonymous is taking responsibility. City spokeswoman Karen Boyd said she began receiving reports that the websites were down Tuesday night. The websites have been down intermittently since then, but Boyd said…
AL: Redstone Credit Union investigating breach at Huntsville location
From the News Courier: Redstone Credit Union is investigating a report of an employee making 66 unauthorized transactions using customer accounts. A press release from the credit union said the accounts were at the Winchester Road branch. The release said the breach was committed by a “now former” employee. All members who were affected have…
TD Bank to Pay $625,000 to Address Data Breach Involving Thousands of Massachusetts Residents
A multi-state settlement over the lost backup tapes was reported in October, but the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office just issued this press release over what appears to be a separate and second settlement stemming from the same incident: TD Bank will pay $625,000 and must take steps to strengthen its security practices after losing unencrypted back-up tapes containing personal…
Hackers contacted top Sony executives before attack
Martyn Williams reports: Top executives at Sony Pictures received an email extorting money three days before the company’s computer network was taken offline in a major hack. The email message was among thousands released on Monday when the email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online. It was the latest release of potentially embarrassing…
A Breakdown and Analysis of the December, 2014 Sony Hack
Risk Based Security (RBS) has posted a chronology and detailed analysis of the data dumps to date in the Sony hack. This is a must-read article for journalists or those interested in the scope of data types involved.