Giuseppe Macri reports: Hackers responsible for stealing the account information of 5,000 government recruiters on GovJobs.com may be preparing to impersonate recruiters and gain access to classified information with the credentials of clearance-holding job seekers. California security firm IntelCrawler discovered the security compromise of usernames, emails and passwords belonging to recruiters from every military service, multiple…
Experts Condemn eBay After XSS Attack Puts Users At Risk
Tom Jowitt reports: The attack on eBay was a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, in which users were redirected to a spoof website designed to steal their credentials. It is not known at this stage, how many users have been affected, said the BBC. “It would be nice to think that eBay, one of the world’s most popular…
Student Freya Newman pleads guilty to hacking Frances Abbott design scholarship files
There’s an update to this incident. Nicola Berkovic reports that Freya Newman pleaded guilty. She faces up to two years in jail when she’s sentenced next month.
CO: Sensitive mortgage documents found dumped behind Centennial office building
Jaclyn Allen reports that a passerby discovered boxes of folders with what appeared to be mortgage information files: The folders have one company in common, Colorado First Commercial Mortgage, which has been out of business in Colorado for more than a decade. But wait, there’s more, it seems. When the Sheriff’s office went to investigate,…
NYS Comptroller: Stony Brook University Hospital Failed to Monitor Transcription Service Properly
From a press release by the NYS Comptroller: Stony Brook University Hospital’s Health Information Management Department repeatedly failed to comply with state guidelines and university policies related to contracting, vendor monitoring, and hiring or promotions, possibly costing taxpayers nearly $1 million, according to an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. […] “We…
Possible information breach within Maryland VA
Whig reports: As many as 165 employees of the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System received a letter from the VA informing them of a potential breach of privacy. This includes an unknown number of Perry Point employees. On Aug. 28, the personal vehicle of a VA Maryland Health Care employee was broken into and…