More details have emerged on a case reported on this site last week in which a state employee accessed a state database and acquired identity information that she allegedly then sold to others. News4Jax reports: According to the Department of Economic Opportunity, one of their employees managed to access the Florida Department of Children and Families‘…
Has the Premera breach resulted in tax refund fraud?
While some Connecticut residents are blaming the Anthem breach after becoming victims of tax refund fraud (a causal claim that Anthem denies) and some faculty at North Dakota State University wonder if the university’s breach last year is the cause of the tax refund fraud they’re experiencing (a causal claim that NDSU denies), some physicians and dentists…
Another week, another list of vulnerable EDU sites
Last week, this site compiled a list of universities and colleges that TeaMp0isoN had reported were vulnerable to SQL injection or XSS attacks. This week, I’ve again compiled their tweets into one list. As I did last week, I am only providing the names of the schools and not the vulnerable urls. This week, however, I am also…
Teenagers Suspected of Hacking Belgian and French Websites
AFP reports: Two teenagers are suspected of having hacked the websites of Belgian and French newspapers earlier in the week, prosecutors said Friday. “The regional unit of computer crime managed …to identify the presumed perpetrators” of the cyber attacks Sunday and Monday, Brussels prosecutors said in a statement. The attacks were launched against the websites of Le…
New bill would protect security research hacking
Cory Bennett reports: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) introduced a bill Thursday that would exempt responsible hacking from prosecution under existing copyright law. The security and academic community has long worried they could face legal action for basic research, which often involves examining computer networks in a way that may technically run afoul…
Update: Air Force senior master sergeant sentenced for ID theft involving fellow soldiers
Christopher Dwan Underwood, who pled guilty in January to stealing government-issued credit cards and dozens of his fellow soldier’s identity information, has been sentenced to two years.