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…
Glasgow City Council slammed for losing 700 computers
Kathleen Hall reports: Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted laptops, according to an audit report. The news follows the theft of…
Cyber threats 2012 by Utah Government List #NullCrew
It has come to our attention that one of the hacker groups we have been covering over the past weeks has been listed as a cyber threat by Utah government in its latest briefing. <object data=" <a href=" https:="" target="_blank">source They have also been mentioned in a recent document by the DHS, its on page…
Sony Mobile Hacked, Data Leaked by #NullCrew
Hacker group #NullCrew aka @OfficialNull has just announced a leak of data that has been obtained after they have compromised the database of Sony’s mobile based website (www.sonymobile.com). SONY Hacked: https://pastebin.com/GiXgB6aT @YourAnonNews @BreakTheSec@TheHackersNews @AnonOpsSweden@AnonHackNews @Cyber_War_News@TruthIzSexy They announced the leak via twitter and it was posted to pastebin and contains the following statement to Sony in which they claim to have control to a further 8…