Phil Muncaster reports: Security experts are warning web users to ensure they use strong passwords and vary their credentials from site to site after a new hacking group published log-in details of what it claimed to be more than 10,000 Facebook users. Trend Micro’s director of security research, Rik Ferguson, explained in a blog post that the…
Exploiting Privacy Breaches
Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: I recently commented on the rush to class action lawsuits that seems to have become the norm. Today, I was interested to see this column by John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup Health System, Harvard Medical School. He writes, in part: As with any profession there are those attorneys who use the law for personal…
UK: 100 private documents accidentally published on police website
Martin Williams writes: Privacy breaches by the Metropolitan Police have left more than 100 documents online which contain confidential information. Names, email addresses and employment details are among the private data which can still be viewed on the Met’s website. Police publish all their responses to questions in an online disclosure log. But staff are routinely failing to…
10,000+ FaceBook account’s hacked by @TeamSwaStika
Recently Formed Hacking Crew From Nepal called "TeamSwaStika" hacked more than 10 thousand facebook account hacked . they claim as as most powerful hacking team from Nepal. They also said that next target will be Nepal Government website and egovernence for Freedom . "Fight For Justice | Justice To Freedom Never Give up | Never…
UAE: Bank gaffe shows info of wealthy customers
Gregor Hunter reports: A bank blunder has revealed the personal email details of scores of HSBC’s high-income customers for the second time in two years. The security breach occurred after a mass email was sent on Sunday morning to 178 customers of HSBC Premier, the bank’s account level for high earners, advising them that it…
Update: Suspected hacker in Hyundai Capital incident arrested in Philippines
A suspected hacker wanted on suspicion of stealing customer data earlier this year from Hyundai Capital, an affiliate of South Korea’s top automaker, has recently been arrested in the Philippines, police here said Monday. The 35-year-old man, identified only by his surname Shin, allegedly broke into the computer system of the financial firm several times…