John Templon reports: Like many institutions, the Office of Data and Accountability for Washington D.C.’s public schools uses an “intranet” for sharing confidential documents. Unlike most intranets, theirs was unintentionally public. […] Hundreds of documents were hosted on the intranet, some providing an unfiltered look into the inner workings of the city’s public school system,…
LinkedIn’s Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has tentatively approved LinkedIn’s $1.25 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2012 data breach. “The settlement agreement falls within the range of possible approval as fair, reasonable, adequate, and in the best interests of the class,” U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in the Northern District…
The FTC’s requested budget: implications for data security enforcement cases?
I was never good with budgets, but damned if I can figure out FTC’s budget request to Congress for Fiscal 2016. Is it seeking funds to expand the number of data security enforcement cases it undertakes or is the budget based on simply maintaining the current level(s)? So when @FTC didn’t respond to my tweeted inquiry,…
And then I stumbled across these hacks by Zyklon
Seen on Pastebin, dated January 15: Hacked By Zyklon #Wonkasec WonkaSec Temp Homepage: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/Index%285%29.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/zyclonb4u Website Hacked: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu Very small portion of the accounts, the other 90,000+ will be posted here: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/DbDump.php The accounts with .edu emails are most likely professors, if you are in college…
Ex-RadioShack worker accused of stealing nude phone photos
Henry Lee reports: A former RadioShack employee in Corte Madera appeared in court Monday on charges that he stole revealing cell phone photos from a woman who had brought her phone in to fix a cracked screen. Jose Robert Miranda, 24, of Richmond did not enter a plea to a felony charge of theft and…
FBI put Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist
Ed Pilkington reports: The prominent Anonymous “hacktivist” Jeremy Hammond, who participated in some of the hacking collective’s most audacious cyber acts, was placed by the FBI on a terrorism watchlist, the Daily Dot reported on Monday. The internet news website obtained a leaked document from the New York state division of criminal justice services that shows Hammond…