A few days ago the media went wild with reports that 3 million Verizon WiFi accounts had been accessed and leaked, well this was very falsely reported in many ways. Who First lets start with TibitXimer who has since either closed down or changed names of the twitter account, they claimed they had hacked Verizon and obtained this…
Renault Bulgaria Hacked, Defaced & Accounts Leaked
Christmas has been fairly eventful so far and to keep things going Turkish Ajan (Agent) Hacker Group member @Maxn3y has just contacted us with a breach on an automotive based website server. The breach is in Renault Bulgaria(renault.bg) sub domains and partner sites and has resulted in 6 defacements as well as thousands of emails from a newsletter…
Hacker Claims 20,000 sites breached in data center attack
A hacker using the handle Sejeal has posted a pastebin post with a short message. In the message they claim they have hacked a data center and as a result over 20,000 websites have been breached and now left defaced with the above image. The attack has been done for Christmas which goes to show…
Inadequate security of personal, private, and sensitive Information in school districts’ mobile computing devices – audit
I’ve often pointed out my concerns that public schools – at least those in New York that I’ve been in – do not seem to have adequate security in place for the vast troves of sensitive and confidential information they collect and retain. So I was unsurprised to read that a recent Office of the…
They’re guilty of ID theft, but don’t ask the government how/where they got the personal info?
Here’s another case where it’s clear there’s been some compromise of PII, but we have no idea how from what law enforcement tells us: According to documents filed in court, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) officers executed a search warrant at [Travonn Xavier Russell’s] residence on January 18, 2012. During the search, MDPD officers found the following…
Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers (and other security problems), researchers say
This will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers of this blog, but The Washington Post has published the results of an investigation into security in the healthcare sector, and the results are… well, what I’d expect. The article is instructive for the range of problems it covers and some real-world examples. Many of…