Anonymous hacktivist have been at it again, targeting some well known musician websites. The attacks come from the wikiboat hacker @TibitXimer who has for the last few days been announcing the attacks. The sites musician’s that were attacked belong to Carly Rae, Justin bieber. Besides those two sites there has been many other attacks on Nazi/whitepower based websites,…
Best Buy says some customer accounts accessed by hackers using login combinations obtained elsewhere
Suzanne Choney reports: Best Buy says some customers’ email accounts may have been hacked. The retail giant is notifying those customers via email, telling them their current passwords have been disabled and asking them to reset their passwords. The email, which went out Friday, says in part: We are currently investigating increased attempts by hackers around…
AU: Did Stay Smart Online’s contractor lose your data?
Oops. A follower on Twitter DM’d me a link to this breach notification from Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the AU government: Notification of Subscriber Data Loss Dear Subscriber We are writing to notify you that the Department has been advised by a former external contractor that a DVD which included information provided by…
6GB Emails from Companies world wide leaked after Sykes and trend micro attack by .c0mrade
Last week we covered a story that got laughed at and went pretty much unnoticed by most of the public, trend micro and well known corporation sykes had been hacked and had its data leaked from a mail server by well known hacker, .c0mrade @OfficialComrade Lots of the information security sector has spoken out about…
Kaiser Permanente stuck in odd struggle with tiny Indio vendor
This news report by Chris Rauber appeared on June 1, but I just became aware of it thanks to a reader: Giant Kaiser Permanente has found itself locked in a David-and-Goliath-scale struggle with a tiny Southern California record storage vendor over up to 1 million unencrypted Kaiser patient records the vendor claims remain on servers in his…
EU wants breach notification for certificate authorities
Stewart Mitchell reports: European authorities plan to clamp down on certificate authorities, demanding security signing organisations speak up if hit by hackers. Certificate authorities – either private or government backed – issue digital certificates that verify web pages and code, and are a key component of the web running smoothly and securely. But as last…