Hamish Barwick reports: Sydney’s Mosman Municipal Council website has suffered a security breach that made the details of nine council staff available for download. However, according to a statement on the Council’s website no ratepayer information from the internal systems had been accessed. The hack was made via an SQL injection exploit on a subsidiary…
Woman charged with stealing information of 4,000 Trinity patients
Melynda Sides reports: A 26-year-old woman from Alabaster has been charged with stealing information from thousands of patients at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham. Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted Chelsea Catherine Stewart for stealing identifying information from more than 4,000 patients, possessing stolen mail, attempting to commit bank fraud, misusing a Social Security number…
Hacktivism what is it & why is it done
This post is just to explain what Hacktivism is and why Hacktivists take out the actions they do. Ok lets start with that funny word, Hacktivism, taken from the words Hack and Activism and can be very confusing/misleading at time as both words are ambiguous. Hacktivism is the Act of a Computer hacker, attacking a target with the…
DefenseNews hacked
Gregg Keizer reports: Email addresses and names of subscribers to DefenseNews, a highly-regarded website that covers national and international military and defense news, were accessed by hackers and presumed stolen, Gannett announced yesterday. DefenseNews ‘ subscribers include active and retired military personnel, defense contractors and others in both the U.S. and other countries’ defense establishments….
(follow-up) Sydney Uni ‘breached student privacy’
An investigation has found the University of Sydney failed in its obligations by not securing students’ private details on its website. A section of the university’s website was shut down in January after it was found sensitive information could be obtained by entering a student’s identification number. No password was required to access the name…
(update) Laptops stolen from a contractor’s van had a slew of sensitive student data
Remember the Illinois State Board of Education laptops stolen from a Harrisburg Project van recently? I was reading more about the incident and noticed that there was even more sensitive data on the laptops than originally indicated in media coverage: The staff data stored on the computers included name, demographics, Social Security number, teacher certification…