2016 has started off to be an interesting year so far and today makes it just that little more so as a well known paste site KickAssPastes appears to have been sent a take down notice on behalf of Citi from a company who conducts cyber intelligence. It all started when KickAssPastes posted earlier today a…
@ChileanCrew Hacks, Leaks Details for 300,000 Chilean Citizens Looking for State Benefits
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of Chilean hacktivists that go by the name of Chilean Hackers have broken into the database of CONADI and stolen the personal details of 304,189 Chilean citizens looking for state benefits from the country’s government. Read more on Softpedia. I “get” that the hacktivists want Chile’s president to resign and they want…
Misconfigured MongoDB installation left Microsoft careers site vulnerable to attack
Chris Vickery writes: An exposed database was serving potentially arbitrary HTML through the mobile version of Microsoft’s careers page (m.careersatmicrosoft.com). Punchkick Interactive is a mobile web development company. Microsoft relies on Punchkick to handle the database that powers m.careersatmicrosoft.com. The bad news is that, for at least the past few weeks, this backend database has…
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center ‘Victim of Cyber Attack’
NBCLA reports: A Southern California hospital was a victim of a cyber attack, interfering with day-to-day operations, the hospital’s president and CEO said. Staff at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center began noticing “significant IT issues and declared an internal emergency” on Friday, said hospital President and CEO Allen Stefanek. A doctor who did not want to…
Teenage Hackers Promise More Government Hacks After Alleged Leader’s Arrest
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Government officials might have let out a sigh of relief this week after the UK police arrested a teenager suspected of being behind the long series of hacks and pranks targeting US government agencies and high-level officials. But friends and associates of the arrested teenager claim this is not the end. “Just because they…
Bank details of 100,000 Britons for sale on Bestvalid.cc
Patrick Sawer reports: Criminals are selling the stolen credit and debit card details of 100,000 Britons on the internet in new market said to be “the largest and most brazen of its kind”. For as little as £1.67 banking details stolen from more than a million people worldwide can be bought from the website on…