Non-profit Hospice Hit with Large Fine for Small Data Breach

An Idaho non-profit hospice has been fined $50,000 for losing a laptop containing unencrypted data on 441 patients. The laptop was stolen in February 2011 from a hospice worker’s car and never retrieved, according to news accounts. But Hospice of North Idaho officials say there is no evidence the...

University of Michigan Health Systems Admits Patient Data Stolen

UPDATE – Some 4,000 University of Michigan Health Systems patients had their medical data compromised last month when a vendor’s laptop containing medication log files was stolen from a vehicle. That medication management provider, Mountain View, Calif.-based Omnicell, admits it violated both its...

Yahoo data leak by Virus_Hima, Why do we need a proactive security?

In November I was contacted for first time by the Egyptian Hacker named ViruSHimA who announced me to have hacked into Adobe servers and leaked private data. The hacker violated Adobe servers gaining full access and dumping the entire database with more of 150,000 emails and hashed passwords of...

Samsung Exynos kernel exploit offer Root without Flashing

A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching through Samsung Exynos kernels and has found one whopper of an exploit. There’s both good and bad news with this exploit so head down below for more details on this new found glory. This exploits affects a number of Samsung-made devices,...

Accused UGA Hacker committed suicide

A former University of Georgia UGA student under investigation for allegedly hacking into the school's computerized personnel records system committed suicide last month. Stell attended classes at UGA between 2005 and 2007. The Data breach was carried out around two months back near 15th October...

Accused UGA Hacker committed suicide

A former University of Georgia UGA student under investigation for allegedly hacking into the school’s computerized personnel records system committed suicide last month. Stell attended classes at UGA between 2005 and 2007. The Data breach was carried out around two months back near 15th October...

Hacker ruined Australian military security in 3 Minutes

Some 22,300 purported student and staff records held by the Australian Defence Force Academy were stolen and published online last month. A member of the Anonymous group, known as Darwinaire, is claiming responsibility for the theft. The systems were compromised in November, with UNSW notifying...

Hacker ruined Australian military security in 3 Minutes

Some 22,300 purported student and staff records held by the Australian Defence Force Academy were stolen and published online last month. A member of the Anonymous group, known as Darwinaire, is claiming responsibility for the theft. The systems were compromised in November, with UNSW notifying...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox. The group claims White Fox is its “final stand”...

Team Ghostshell leaks 1.6 million accounts under #ProjectWhiteFox

Team Ghostshell a Hacktivists group of hackers, who before was in news for hacking Major Universities Around The Globe and leaked 120,000 records, are once again hit major organisations and expose around 1.6 million accounts Hacker name the project as ProjectWhiteFox , means "Freedom of...

Nationwide, Allied Insurance Breach Hits 1.1 Million Users

An estimated 1.1 million consumers are at risk of identity theft after thieves broke into servers belonging to Nationwide and Allied insurance companies. Victims include current policyholders and those who sought insurance quotes. The breach took place Oct. 3 and was discovered the same day...

WCSU Alerts Students and Families Their Personal Data Exposed

Western Connecticut State University officials began alerting almost 234,000 students, their families and prospective students culled from purchased lists that their personal information was exposed due to a database vulnerability. The records do not appear to have been inappropriately accessed,...

XSS vulnerability in 4shared and NATO Multimedia Library Exposed

Inj3ct0r Team found cross site scripting vulnerability in 4shared , a file sharing site. Vulnerability link is exposed in a note available at their website. In general, cross-site scripting refers to that hacking technique that leverages vulnerabilities in the code of a web application to allow a...

UAMS Alerts Patients to Data Breach Linked to Fired Resident

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is letting some 1,500 patients know their information was kept without permission by a resident physician after she was terminated. The health care facility plans to mail impacted patients who had surgery or were seen by a neurosurgeon from January ...

Attackers Had Access for Months in South Carolina Data Breach

Attackers had two months of unfettered access to South Carolina’s Department of Revenue systems in a classic targeted attack that began with a phishing email and ended with the loss of electronic tax return data, and payment card and personal information on 3.8 million filers, possibly dating bac...

Man Convicted of Illegally Accessing AT&T Servers by 'Impersonating' an iPad

A 27-year-old New York man known online as “Weev” was convicted Tuesday of “impersonating” an iPad in order to gain access to AT&T’s servers and swiping 114,000 email addresses, including some belonging to celebrities. Andrew Auernheimer faces up to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of...

Joke network to get a shell and fix-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Keywords: Google news. asp? ID=2 0 goofy The default database download address: www.2ctoo.com/ data/lexiang. mdb 9 0%success Background default account: admin By the background backup to get the SHELL See the figure: ! Repair solutions: Modify the default download address and backstage password...

Hacker hacked into Adobe servers and dump data of 150000 users

This morning I received the news of new attacks against Adobe, an Egyptian Hacker named ViruSHimA hacked into Adobe servers and leaked private data. The hacker claims to have violated Adobe servers gaining full access and dumping the entire database with more of 150,000 emails and hashed password...

English Defence League Donors Information Leaked by Hackers

3 Days ago "English Defence League" was hacked and Defaced by "ZCompany Hacking Crew". Today same hacking crew expose a list of 25 people who give Donations to EDL. Leaked information include Donator's Names, addresses and Email addresses, posted in a note. Hackers said,"If you donate to EDL and...

Blizzard Sued Over Data Breach, Authenticator Sales

UPDATED–A group of customers is suing gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment in connection with a data breach in August that resulted in user email addresses, hashed passwords and other information being stolen by attackers. The suit claims that the company did not do enough to secure users’ account...