Well its been said time and time before, facebook privacy settings are to weak and allow the world to see what ur doing, and as a result a 17yo girl from NSW Australia has caused her family to become victims to a home invasion. On the 25th of may 2012 a 17yo girl from the southern highlands…
5k Accounts Leaked From GameReplays.org By @EcecusHxc
The gamer scene has taken yet another hit from a hacker who recently hacked a well known gamer forum and as a result has leaked just shy of 5,000 accounts. The hacker who uses the handle @EcecusHxc had announced today they had breached and leaked the accounts from Game Replays (https://www.gamereplays.org) which runs an Invision power board, which is…
Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say
Dave Lee reports: A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010. The company said it believed the attack was state-sponsored, but…
Ca: Veteran's privacy not violated, internal review found
An independent investigator who reviewed privacy violations at Veterans Affairs Canada told the Harper government in late 2010 it was appropriate to include the personal medical information of an outspoken advocate in briefing material, say internal federal documents. The central finding of the Amprax Inc. review flies in the face of the country’s privacy watchdog,…
A Bit Too Much Klout: User Says He Can Sign In To Someone Else’s Account
Ingrid Lunden writes: It’s not clear if this is a one-off glitch, a signal of a bigger issue — or a way of pumping up/sabotaging Klout scores for those who care. But it’s not great news any way you spin it, if it’s true: a Klout user has gotten in touch to say that when…
TalkTalk subsidiary’s customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie (updated with response from TalkTalk)
Bill Ray reports: Updated Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn’t care. The details include customer and contract prices, copies of sales orders and spreadsheets showing how things are going at the subsidiary which TalkTalk…