Over on Huffington Post, Gerry Smith is singing my tune about the education sector in terms of data security exposing students to the risk of identity theft. Here’s a snippet: But the U.S. Department of Education has warned schools not to use students’ Social Security numbers in their databases, urging them instead to create other unique identifiers. Social…
Whitehat Facebook hacker pleads guilty
A British student has pleaded guilty to charges that he breached security at Facebook earlier his year, despite arguing that his intentions were not malicious. York student Glenn Steven Mangham, 26, attempted to bypass security on the company’s internal systems, raising alarm amongst the FBI that industrial espionage was occurring, according to media reports. Mangham, who…
Federal Security Practitioners Admit: We’re Not Prepared to Meet Continuous Monitoring Deadline
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — In a blow to one of the key cyber-security initiatives advanced by White House leaders, federal IT security professionals admit that efforts to adopt continuous monitoring of security performance lag far behind the Obama administration’s expectations. Advanced by the White House as a primary national cyber-security initiative, an overwhelming majority…
Yahoo Awarded $610M, but court cant promise they will see it
Back in 2008 a court case started, yahoo vs the phishers, Last week the court finally made its ruling that yahoo is to be awarded 610 million, 27 of which is for damages and the rest for copyright infringements, pretty stupid hey? Well what makes this even more funny is the statement that the judge has…
Romanian CEC Bank blocks 17,000 cards
Romanian state-owned lender CEC bank has blocked the VISA cards of around 17,000 of its clients for security reasons, fearing an information security breach. Account information was most likely accessed via the Internet, according to the bank, which also announced other Romanian and international banks have been affected by this. “The bank has been informed…
small dump of accounts
Just a small dump of what appears to be accounts from some sort of phishing scam or bot . https://pastebin.com/jVkRhb14