Anthony Orozco reports: A hacker broke into a Berks County manufacturer’s computer system and stole nearly $200,000, according to state police. The banking system at CWI Railroad System Specialists, a Barto company that manufactures train engine parts, was hacked last month, troopers said. The hacker entered the company’s system and issued payments to banks in…
MI5 and SIS Sites Taken down by @0x00x00
Hacker @0x00x00 who has been attacking all sorts of stuff over the past week has just made claim to taking down the United Kingdoms Secret Intelligence Services websites www.sis.gov.uk and www.mi5.gov.uk. The attack was announced via twitter. > 0x00x00 @0x00x00 #DnsFucked https://www.sis.gov.uk https://www.mi5.gov.uk @Cyber_War_News@AnonOpsSweden @TruthIzSexy @Asher_Wolf @anon_online@youanonnews At time of publishing the sites were still down and most likely will be for some…
City of Newark Web site Hacked, 3000+ Accounts leaked by @0x00x00
Earlier today hacker @0x00x00 announced an attack on the City of Newark, New Jersey website (www.ci.newark.nj.us) which has resulted in over 3000 user credentials being leaked. The attack was announced via twitter and posted to pastebin. The website is the main website for Newark and contains a heap of information and basic news services for people interested in the Newark area….
Scottish councils lose personal data of 10,000
From PublicService.co.uk Hundreds of council data security incidents have led to the loss of data on more than 10,000 people in Scotland over the past five years, figures released under freedom of information laws have revealed. Laptops containing images of children were lost, as was confidential pension information and Blackberry devices containing sensitive emails. These…
Beware of the threat within
Darren Pauli has a report on insider breaches in Australia. One of them involves a situation we’ve seen here, too: insiders stealing patient databases to set up their own practice: Another ongoing case has seen a Sydney medical clinic chain defrauded of up to $2 million after a small group of experienced practitioners allegedly stole…
Hacked FBI notebook reveals over 12,000,000 iPhone users’ details – Anonymous (updated to include FBI denial)
David Gilbert reports: A post on Pastebin claims that during the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro laptop used by FBI Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl (seen above in a video calling for computer science graduates to work with the FBI) was breached. The group claims it found a file on the computer’s desktop – labelledNCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv…