From the this-doesn’t-sound-good dept.: The organisation which left thousands of pieces of personal data unsecured on a laptop stolen from Glasgow City Council could be given control of key council buildings. ACCESS was responsible for issuing unencrypted laptops against council policy on over 160 occasions earlier this year, according to a damning report by the…
FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham Hotels For Failure to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Woo hoo. I had such a headache trying to sort out Wyndham’s breaches (see previous blog entries on Wyndham) and was concerned that at least one state had removed their notification from public view on the state’s web site because Wyndham had asked that it be treated as confidential. Now it seems the FTC has…
Uganda Sites Attacked, Defaced By GSec
Another twitter based crew @_GSec which is compromised of a few hackers we follow have taken sights to a heap of Uganda based servers/sites and as a result they have been left defaced or taken offline. Our Logic & Reason; As you may tell by now, #OpFuckUganda is going and full blown. The reasoning behind these multiple defaced…
San Jose State University Hacked, Data Leaked by @RuneGoldTrim
Twitter user @RuneGoldTrim has announced and alerted us to a release of a database from the (https://as.sjsu.edu) San Jose State University. The announcement came not to long ago and the attack appears to be carried out via a SQLi in the jsp file system. S1ngularity @RuneGoldTrim https://as.sjsu.edu dumped!! Check it out here:https://pastebay.net/1066032 Logins, numbers, emails, & more!!@Cyber_War_News @hacktalkblog The leak…
Two LulzSec Members Plead Guilty to Sony, CIA Hacking
Lindsay Fortado reports: Ryan Cleary and another member of the LulzSec “hacktivist” group, pleaded guilty to disrupting websites at Sony Corp., the Central Intelligence Agency and News Corp. while denying they illegally posted confidential data. Cleary, 20, pleaded guilty to six of eight charges filed by London prosecutors at a hearing today. Jake Davis, another…
UK: Inquiry call over missing NHS records
More than 100 health records – almost half of them in NHS Grampian – went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included personal details of children and sensitive health information, according to details in a Freedom of Information response. NHS Grampian insisted its 50 records were not “lost” but “reported missing”. Read…