From the StarDemocrat: A Gaithersburg man will serve at least two years in prison for an identity theft scheme that included Eastern Shore residents, the U.S. Attorney for District of Maryland announced last week. Jain Vivek, 26, pleaded guilty last week to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and one count of…
Rose State College Cyber Security Sleuths Offer Facebook Security Tips
Although it’s the world’s most popular social network site, with more than 800 million users, Facebook user information is attractive to “black hats”—hackers on the dark side, according to Cyber Security students at Rose State College. Users should take steps to take care. “A lot of people really like Facebook, but you have to be careful using it,”…
IL: 4,200 Medical Records Stored Inside Slowed Fire Cleanup
After 10 years or so of covering breaches and data loss, it takes a bit to shock me, but this news story by John H. Croessman had my eyebrows involuntarily elevating: When members of the Pinckneyville City Council hammered physician Tim Mathis on television interviews recently about why it has taken so long to clean…
Accounts dumped from hiphopinstrumental.net
Well, they are truly starting to look like kids attacking pointless websites and exposing innocent peoples information over and over. The latest comes fro hiphopinstrumental.net and contains over 5000 user account emails and passwords. Use CTRL+F for quick search to be sure you have no been compromised. https://pastebin.com/sdFBMcWT
#OpDarknet Official and Last Release
OpDarknet Official and Last Release — 11/2/2011 In the last three weeks of #OpDarknet, we gained much support from The World with our Operation Darknet. We would like to thank our supporters, in #OpDarknet’s cause. There also was a large amount of resistance from the pedophile community claiming that Tor was their safe haven with…
UK: Council lost memory stick containing 18,000 residents’ details
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing an unencrypted memory stick containing the details of over 18,000 residents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO has required the council to put changes in place and will check to ensure the improvements have been made. The memory stick – which…