The latest big news is that on February 6th the Kaspersky Customer Records database was hacked through a simple SQL injection flaw on the website. The hacker claimed it was possible to expose all customer data including users, activation codes, lists of bugs, admins, shot and so on. The anonymous hacker hasn’t actually posted any [...]
This is an interesting story, I’ll be watching how it develops – it’s not often you see a bounty for online crimes and especially one as enticing as 1 million dollars!
That’s a hell of a sum for nailing down some dodgy hackers who are running an extortion scam after a data leak.
I really wonder where [...]
Another classic data leakage….and once again it happend on Ebay! This time it’s a British agency known as MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) demonstrating a distinct lack of intelligence.
How on earth does something like even happen? Even smaller agencies and companies I’ve worked with have rigorous data destruction policies when old equipment is recycled or sold [...]
Ferret works on the concept of “data seepage”: bits of benign data that people willingly broadcast to the world (as opposed to “leakage”, which is data people want to hide from the world).
Examples of data seepage are what happens when you power-on your computer. It will broadcast to the world the list of WiFi access-points [...]
Can you believe this the provincial government in British Columbia has managed to auction off a set of data tapes containing people’s social insurance numbers, dates of birth and medical records among other information.
The provincial government has auctioned off computer tapes containing thousands of highly sensitive records, including information about people’s medical conditions, their social [...]
Ah another huge hacking resulting in a large loss of confidential information, companies really need to start getting more pro-active about aggresively testing their corporate networks and web based applications.
Information including CREDIT CARD numbers sadly.
AT&T on Tuesday said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data on thousands of customers who [...]
Pretty Scary eh?
Although some people do call them the Central Lack-of Intelligence Agency.
Privacy is a major issue and well people should be a little more careful about what they reveal online, perhaps I’ll rehash my old Google Hacking Presentation and write it up as a post for Darknet. I guess it would be interesting reading [...]
