This morning anonymous hacktivist have taken sights back towards Australian and as a result the Australian Attorney Generals website has been suffering outages and downtime this morning. Both sites for the Attorney General have come under the attack by the hacktivist who are using this as a way of gaining attention for julian assange, The most recent…
1440+ Sites taken offline by h4x0r HuSsY (VOBHH)
Voice of black hat hackers member h4x0r HuSsY who in the past has attacked many different sites has tipped us of to a large scale attack that has been carried out over the past few days. As normally with VOBHH the attack is defacement based and contains a short message as well as a new message which is…
Cambridge still being attacked by NullCrew
This week we published an article about the on going attacks on Cambridge university mainly led by #nullcrew hackers but has since been a reason for other hackers to start having a ago at the university network. The most recent attacks come from twitter user @Timoxeline who is apart of Nullcrew and the attacks come in the form of…
Debate heats up in Oz over data liability
Hamish Barwick reports: The call for mandatory data breach notifications and potential legal proceedings against enterprises who fail to protect customer data has become a little louder in Australia, according to the findings of a new survey. The report, entitled Australian Consumer Data Survey 2012, which was conducted for iSeek Communications in July 2012 with…
Ca: Privacy breach at College of the North Atlantic
From The Telegram: Some students’ private information became available to all students at the College of the North Atlantic Ridge Road campus, it was announced today. A news release states that officials at CNA’s Atlantic’s Engineering Technology Centre have been made aware that a document containing personal information about students who had purchased lockers had…
HHS updates breach tool (update 3)
HHS added 10 incidents to its breach tool in its most recent update. Somewhat depressingly, five of the incidents involved the theft of unencrypted laptops. In terms of newly revealed details on known incidents, the University of Miami reported that it had notified 64, 846 patients of the insider breach involving theft and possible sale of…