Jasmine Williams of WMGT reports that an online security breach was the beginning of a sequence of events that led Wilkinson County officials in Georgia to dismiss schools early on Friday: According to authorities, a Wilkinson County student accessed the user names and passwords to PowerTeacher. PowerTeacher is a classroom management system used to store…
Further sites attacked for #OpFreeAssange
#OpFreeAssange has been picking up over the past few days with more attacks happening every day. some of the most recent attacks come from @WikiboatBR with a bunch of defacement’s and a hacker using the handle @0x3a0x3a who has dumped a load of breached FTP systems. All the attacks have happened some time over the…
Oops: Ulster Bank apologizes after losing some customers’ records
BreakingNews.ie reports that Ulster Bank has apologized to customers after an employee inadvertently dropped a folder containing customer info outside one of its offices but didn’t notice it. The folder was eventually returned to them.
University of Rhode Island notifies faculty and students after SSN discovered exposed on the Internet
WPRI in Rhode Island reports that University of Rhode Island is notifying current and former faculty members as well as some students that their data were on a publicly shared College of Business Administration server that was accessed and viewed by unauthorized individuals. A statement posted on URI’s web site indicates that 1,000 faculty members were being…
AVX Corporation Hacked, 2900+ Accounts leaked by #Anonymous for
Anonymous Operation OpColtan and @OpGreenRights has been going for some time now with some high profile targets like Intel already being attacked. Today Anonymous have announced another attack in the name of this operation and this time its on a Manufacturer and Supplier of Electronic Components AVX Corporation (www.avx.com). Anonymous @OpGreenRights LEAKS #OpColtan AVX HACKED – a…
Update, Further information from Massive leak by @TeamGhostShell
Yesterday was a busy day for us, we processed well over 100 different sites that had been breached and many of these breaches contain administration or client information. Today we had a quick talk with @TeamGhostShell about this attack just to confirm a few things. The websites that were attacked were all the lowerend/less important…