From Mainichi Daily News earlier this week: A software sales company affiliated with Softbank Corp. said Thursday that personal information related to up to 261,161 customers may have been compromised from its database due to fraudulent access. Vector Inc. based in Tokyo said data that may have been stolen include names, addresses and credit card…
Attorney Claims Firm Swiped Asbestos Files (updated)
Matt Reynolds reports on a lawsuit that involves allegations of stolen client files from a law firm. A lawyer is suing his former law firm, alleging that they terminated him when he discovered and blew the whistle on their use of confidential files from another law firm. Those files had allegedly been copied and…
Northrop Grumman (SSES) contract dump
content/images/gallery/random3/northrop-grumman-sses-contract-dump-pastebin-com_.png Northrop Grumman Corporation has become victims to the on going cyber war that anonymous hackers are taking out on the worlds governments and intelligence agencies alike. The attack on Northrop Grumman isn’t anything like the scales of recent attacks on strafor etc but still shows that these company are insecure and hold valuable information that could be useful to many other…
WarDriving, Coming to a Queensland street near you!!!
Australian police have sadly announced plans to start what is commonly known as “wardriving”, driving around in a vehicle that’s got equipment decked out to grab and log the details and location of any wireless hotspots.  Now the report says that the Queensland police force plans to use this to help people protect systems, but really is…
2011 Sees 855 hacking incidents, 174 million compromised records, Verizon Yearly Summary
Global giant Verizon has released a yearly report on data breaches. In the report they have gone on to label 2011 as " year of civil and cultural uprising". The report which has been put together from data obtained from many government agency’s including the Australian Federal Police, Irish Reporting & Information security service (IRIssCeRT), United states secret service (Usss)…
CSDN hacker arrested and charged
Late last year china faced one of the biggest leaks of information to date with its Software developer network being hacked and millions of Chinese peoples user accounts was leaked online. The leak resulted in collatoral damage with many other websites and accounts became seized from rouge hackers and people who had obtained other peoples information from…