Xinhua reports: More than 10,000 computers in China were attacked by domestic and overseas hackers between December 2014 and November 2015, a cybersecurity firm has detected. The SkyEye Lab, run by Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, said 29 hacker organizations from home and abroad launched the attacks. Read more on Xinhua. Focusing on another part…
FL: Discarded medical records found unsecured at public landfill
Trevor Pettiford reports that discarded medical records were found unsecured at a county landfill facility in St. Petersburg, Florida. The records, complete with names, addresses, and family histories, were discovered by a man dumping bulk trash at the Pinellas County Solid Waste facility at 3095 114th Avenue North in St. Petersburg. They apparently came from the…
#opicarus sparks take down notice for KickAssPastes.com
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…