Lori Pilger reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: The 23-year-old former student indicted in connection to a computer security breach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last year pleaded guilty Tuesday. Daniel Stratman, who lives in Omaha now and works for an IT company, had faced a dozen counts in an…
Macon woman sentenced in identity theft scheme
Tom George reports: A Macon woman was sentenced in federal court for her role in a identity theft scheme. 38-year-old Rhonda Everett plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraudulent claims, identity theft, and receiving stolen government property. In 2012, Everett was caught in a sting operation and admitted to obtaining personal information from 35 people…
Made In Oregon customers warned of data breach (update2)
Mike Benner reports on KGW: When it comes to Oregon’s delicacies there is not much that Made In Oregon does not sell. Its warehouse in Northeast Portland is stocked with everything you can imagine. “These shelves will be empty by December 18,” said company vice president Verne Naito. This is the busiest time of the year for…
UK: GP surgery manager prosecuted for illegally accessing patients’ medical records
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former manager who oversaw the finances of a GP’s practice in Maidstone has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after unlawfully accessing the medical records of approximately 1,940 patients registered with the surgery. Appearing at Maidstone Magistrates Court today, 37-year-old Steven Tennison pleaded guilty to charges of…
Look What I Found: Moar Pony!
Daniel Chechik and Anat (Fox) Davidi of Trustwave write: In our last episode of “Look What I Found” we talked about a fairly large instance of the Pony Botnet Controller. With the source code of Pony leaked and in the wild, we continue to see new instances and forks of Pony 1.9. One of the latest instances we’ve run…
Vodafone Iceland Official Statement and Look into SMS Data.
Detailed report The past weekend has been interesting, especially for those who live in Iceland and mainly for Vodafone Iceland after 357MB of data was leaked from their systems servers. As it has been made aware already across many website Vodafone was and most likely still is logging your SMS text messages in MySQL based databases with…