Aliyah Sternstein reports: Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing infected links to government subscribers whose email addresses were stolen during an earlier raid on the company’s computers, Microsoft researchers say. Read more on NextGov.
Federal Reserve Vulnerable to hackers
A hacker going by the handle D35m0nd142 has posted information about the federalreserve.com website that shows its vuln to attackers. Now its a worry that such websites are hackable with such minor hacks and shows that the governments are clearly not thinking about security the way they should be. https://pastebin.com/QM9kLnPB
NASDAQ website taken offline by hackers
Hackers using the handle L0NGwave99 have claimed to taken down the www.nasdaq.com website whcih is now showing a time out error. For the second day, the Destributed Denial of Service operation on the www.nasdaq.com continued execution. If you go to NASDAQ site https://www.nasdaq.com you will not see anything execpt timeout or nothing. This DDoS Operation over…
UK: Nosey nurse struck off after accessing medical records
A nurse has been struck off after she admitted snooping on the confidential medical records of her own friends, family and a colleague. Jennifer Susan Ramsay, 37, admitted she was no longer fit to practice after the data protection breach was uncovered by suspicious colleagues. The nurse, who worked at the MacMillan Day Care unit…
UK: Cheshire East Council fined £80,000 after e-mail, sent insecurely, disseminated to unintended recipients
Cheshire East Council has been ordered to pay a monetary penalty of £80,000 for failing to take appropriate measures to ensure the security and appropriateness of disclosure when emailing personal information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The serious breach of the Data Protection Act occurred in May 2011 when a council employee was…
Anonymous gets hacked, Anonyops.com hacked and defaced?
content/images/gallery/random3/freezepage-anonyops-hacked.png Well it would appear that a hacker using the handle Exotz has done one one anonyops.com an anonymous news related websites/blog that has strong affilation with the anonymous movement. The defacing which happened not to long ago features what appears to be a new post with the following message. and image. Such an unfortunate accident,…