Once again silly facebook users who click on everything and attempt to login to every page that looks like facebook have been taken for fools once again. A dump of a few thousand facebook accounts has been leaked on to pastebin. If you are worried be sure to use CTRL+F for quick search. https://pastebin.com/E5HpPkCc Also once again,…
GA: DeKalb man charged with identity theft gets probation
This is the second relatively light sentence I’ve seen this week for identity-theft related cases. The first was a nurse in Colorado, now this one from Georgia. Caitlin Mullen reports: A DeKalb man charged with identity theft and deceptive practices was sentenced Wednesday to 60 months of probation. Edward McGee, 21, of the 1400 block…
Dallas convicts no longer shred confidential data
Jason Whitely reports the demise of a practice that never should have been: Dallas County’s little-known community service program which lets convicted criminals sort and then shred confidential documents and personal information has come to an end after News 8 questioned the practice. For more than a decade, parolees and probationers had been working off…
Update: Big Pond plugs data leak
Stephen Cauchi and Georgia Wilkins report: Telstra has scrambled to reconnect its BigPond internet services after a privacy breach that leaked personal customer information shut down its system for 24 hours. Up to 1 million BigPond users could not use email and other online services while the problem was being fixed. About 60,000 passwords were…
Iran Cyber attack downed US drone
Well, cyber warfare at full scale, Iran claims to of downed an US drone. More recently two use drones was infected by a breach while still on US ground and now this. There has been a video surface of the downed drone which shows the 26meter wing span and its prefect condition which backs the…
WA: Unencrypted USB drive with patient data and Social Security numbers reported missing
This is one of the incidents for which we previously had no details. Gene S. J. Liaw, M.D., a Washington physician, reported an incident involving a lost device to the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services and they summarized the incident this way: An unencrypted USB drive used to store patient information could not…