ITnews reports: Wrongly configured security settings in a Cisco portal used for job applications has resulted in the leak of personal data online. The networking vendor told affected individuals that a “limited set of job application related information” had been exposed due to botched settings in the mobile version of its professional careers website. It said the…
Seven Indian missions’ websites ‘hacked’, data dumped online: Report
IANS reports: Two hackers allegedly from the Netherlands claimed to have broken into seven Indian High Commission websites, publishing online the login details, passwords and database containing names, passport numbers, email-IDs and phone numbers of people of Indian origin, media reported on Monday. According to a report in E Hacking News website, the Indian High…
UK: Missing GP records in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk ‘total 9,000’
Nikki Fox reports: More than 9,000 patients’ records in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have gone missing since a private firm took on transferring files, a BBC survey shows. Capita took on the national contract from the NHS for delivering patients’ records, when people move from one GP to another, in March. The survey of 78 GP…
Hackers hit Scotland Yard’s site after arrests at Million Mask March
John Simpson reports: Hackers claim to have shut down part of Scotland Yard’s website for eight hours in revenge for dozens of arrests during an anti-capitalist march that ended in violence in central London. The Met’s news website was forced offline while thousands of protesters, many wearing Guy Fawkes masks, marked the fifth of November…
East Baton Rouge school system caught up in bizarre “phishing” email fraud using Superintendent Warren Drake’s name, $46,500 lost in wire transfers
Charles Lussier reports: The top business manager for the East Baton Rouge Parish school system fell for an unsophisticated con, wiring $46,500 to someone who claimed via email to be Superintendent Warren Drake, even though the man himself was working in an office next door. The school system on Thursday disclosed the fraud known as…
Would your Twitter team recognize when they’re being informed of a hack?
It sounds like such a simple question that should have an obvious “yes” answer, but you might be surprised to see what happens when hackers taunt social media teams about hacks. It’s an issue I’ve mentioned before: NullCrew revealed that they had access to Bell’s server for months, and had disclosed that to them in a…