CTV reports: The B.C. government is dealing with another privacy breach after confidential documents from the Ministry of Children and Family Development were found dumped in a garbage bin. The documents were discovered dumped in a green dumpster behind a Victoria apartment building last week, and contain client names, addresses, birth dates and health card…
Hi5ads and Bangla TV hacked; user data dumped
Noticed on Pastebin today: Hi5ads.com was reportedly hacked on October 29 via SQL injection by those identifying themselves as “3xp1r3 cyber army.” The data dump includes 5,065 entries from the “mero_classified” database consisting of usernames, clear-text passwords, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and names. In a separate data dump, the group lists 3,149 clear-text passwords and…
Web Werks becomes major victim of the Duqu Virus
an Indian web host has become a victim in the hunt for the owners of the Duqu virus, Indian Authorities last week seized computers from the web werks data center. Web works has been operating for about 15years now and is a fairly big and well known web host with many common solutions at affordable pricing. So far they have only…
China link found to virus targeting diplomatic offices
The computer virus used in targeted attacks against Japanese diplomatic missions overseas was designed to transmit identification data and other information from infected computers to two servers in China, it has been learned. One of the two servers in China is registered at a domain that was also used in cyber-attacks against online search giant…
China takes down online drug ring, 12000 arrested
In China the Ministry of Public Security has today announced that over 12,000 people have been arrested in what would be the worlds largest online drug operation. The operation which has been running for a few years now, was being run via private chat rooms and potential customers could often view the drugs they was enquiring…
Chaos Computer Club analyzes new German government spyware
Recently Chaos Computer Club exposed the German police for putting monitoring software on peoples computers. They called for the malware to be stopped being used and so far its gone unheard and now they are releasing more detailed information about the software. Read the full article here ( https://ccc.de)