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…
Texas Official Must Talk About Data Leaks
David Lee reports: A state judge ordered the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to comply with a request for a deposition on the leak of personal information of more than 3.5 million people. Comptroller Susan Combs disclosed in April that the personal information of 3.5 million state employees and former employees had been stored on…
FBI Raids media contact for lulzsec
The FBI have raided there 2nd place with information search warrants in as many weeks with the 1st being DigitalOne. These raids are not for arrest for to gain Intel on the LulzSec hackers., LulzSec was a group of 6 hackers who for 50days exploited and leaked high profile information aswell as attacks with Ddos.On…
Operation anti Security Data Leaks
Well I’m a bit late but non the less, Anonymous has released a nice package over the last few days. As from pastebin. *) Zimbabwean government dumps *) Mosman Municipal Council (mosman.nsw.gov.au) dump *) Universal Music Group Partners dump 1 & 2 containing umusic.com’s user:passwords and other data *) Viacom dump containing internal mapping of…
Ryan Cleary
content/images/gallery/ryan-cleary/thumb169-408×264.jpg Ryan Cleary 19yo from Wickford UK Was raided and arrested by Metropolitan Police in relation to documents that LulzSec has posted online exposing his details. it is still totally unclear why LulzSec has posted his details online but it is clear that he did not have much to do with the operations that LulzSec was…