In 2012 we seen a huge up rise in operations of all kinds against many different targets, here is a simple break down of what operations were carried out in the year of 2012 by hacktivist from all around the internetz. Not all operations have been successful with more on the failing side then the success side and many…
Your Mobile Device and Health Information Privacy and Security
In light of a recent blog post about nurses using their own smartphones to enter clinical data, I thought this might be a good time to point readers to HHS’s recent resources for securing mobile devices. Their top tips: 1. Use a password or other user authentication 2. Install and enable encryption 3. Install and activate remote wiping…
Kroll Advisory Solutions Releases 2013 Cyber Security Forecast
Right before the holidays, Kroll Advisory Solutions released its predictions and advisory. They identified four unexpected cyber forces to be reckoned with in 2013 and offered some recommendations for addressing them: 1. Vampire Data: Organizations Get Bitten by the Data They Never Knew They Had Data exists in myriad locations and in a multitude of formats…
Eletronorte, Power Plants of Northern Brazil Hacked, Data Leaked
Anonymous hacktivist fighting for an operation dubbed #OperationGreenRights @OpGreenRights has contacted us a few days ago with a data leak from two Brazilian based government websites. One of these sites is actually the Power Plants of northern Brazil home eln.gov.br and the other is the Ministry of Environment which has been targeted in the past. The attack has come…
Anonymous set to attack Westboro baptist church tonite
Anonymous hacktivist from around the world have been laying sights on Westboro baptist church (WBC) in an operation dubbed OpWBC. Today is a day they plan to have an all out attack on WBC with a website opwestboro.com being released with a countdown, links to HOIC (newer LOIC), web chats and ability to upload evidence of attacks. The…
Prosecutors dismiss charges against 5 Japanese app developers accused of data theft by virus
It seemed to have the makings of a big news story almost two months ago when The Japan Times reported and the Hacker News spread the word that Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police had arrested five mobile app developers for creating and embedding a virus into smartphone applications that downloaded the users’ contacts. But now it appears that the case…