Over the past few months, SLC Security has been noting a lot of malware and botnet activity in the education sector – problems, they say, that the entities often don’t acknowledge when SLC Security attempts to alert them to problems. Yesterday, SLC Security wrote that they were seeing traffic from: New York University -Malicious Activity Princeton University – Malicious…
NL: Dutch house approves law on personal data breach reporting
Telecompaper reports: The lower house of the Dutch parliament has approved legislation requiring businesses and organisations to report security breaches of personal data they hold. The Law on Personal Information will be expanded to include the new requirement, which applies to businesses of all sizes as well as public sector agencies. Read more on Telecompaper.
Defense Contract Management Agency Probes Hack
Brian Krebs reports: The Defense Contract Management Agency, the U.S. federal government entity responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense, is responding to a suspected cybersecurity breach and has pulled a number of its servers offline while the investigation continues, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. So far, there’s no evidence that any personal…
TX: Police investigating access to district files by Lake Dallas High School students
Okay, hacking or otherwise improperly accessing a school district’s files to misuse kids’ lunch money accounts may not sound like the crime of the century, but when a few teens accessed a school district’s files, what else did they do, and what mayhem could they have caused? Megan Gray-Hatfield and Britney Tabor report: Corinth police are…
White Plains bank teller convicted of ID theft (updated)
Jane Lerner reports: A teller at a White Plains bank was convicted Tuesday of stealing customer data and selling it to an identity-theft ring. Nadia Figueroa, 24, of the Bronx, faces between two and six years in state prison following her felony grand larceny conviction in Westchester County Court in White Plains. […] Figueroa admitted…
Attempted hack of Jacksonville Aviation Authority disclosed
WJXT in Florida is reporting (video) that the FBI is actively investigating an attempted hack of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority on November 26, shortly before Thanksgving. In a statement to the news station, JAA indicated that it believes the attack was unsuccessful and will continue to believe so unless it hears otherwise from the FBI, but…