Notes: It is unknown exactly how this data has been acquired Intro: Last month on the 13th of February it would appear that some anonymous hacktivist had announced a leak of data from the SPVM. More recently this leak has come back into the light under the hash tag #SPVMLeaks on twitter over the past few days. What is SPVM?…
Police Crime Prediction Software, PredPol Source Code Leaked By Anonymous
Update: Comment from PredPol has been added to the bottom. An anonymous hacktivist has today announced a leak of source code that comes from PredPol.com, which is a policing prediction software used by many divisions of California police. The announcement has come from #Ag3ntBlack aka @OpGJResisters via twitter. > oHai #Anonymous #AntiSec #OpBigBrother please enjoy filebox.com/ctfnbztm6hcl | Full install…
Medical Industry Under Attack By Chinese Hackers
If you’re not scared already, this might do it. Kelly Jackson Higgins reports: Multiple gangs of Chinese cyberespionage hackers are now targeting the healthcare and medical/life sciences industries. Most every industry is fair game for cyberespionage these days — so it’s no surprise that the healthcare and medical industry would come up on the list…
Sparks details attack and data theft
From their press release: The company behind Sparks, the app that is designed to help you connect with and meet new people nearby with whom you have shared interests, and which was first presented at SXSW in 2012, has given details of an attempted Denial of Service attack allegedly undertaken by an employee of their…
SC bill: Protect credit for 10 years in wake of SCDOR hack
Andrew Shain reports: A bill, approved Tuesday by a state Senate committee, would offer credit-fraud protection for 10 years to S.C. taxpayers and others after hackers stole information belonging to 6.4 million consumers, children and businesses from the S.C. Department of Revenue last fall. The bill now goes to the full Senate. […] The bill…
Montreal Police officers’ and undercover agents’ information dumped on Dropbox
Laura Casella reports: There has been an apparent security breach at the Montreal police department. Hackers have released a large amount of confidential files. […] The files are filled with personal information about the SPVM [Service de police de la Ville de Montréal]. What looks to be the most worrisome is a file containing the…