Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

VSploit Email PII

This auxiliary reads from a file and sends data which should be flagged via an internal or external SMTP server. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VSploit Email PII', 'Description...

VSploit Web PII

This module emulates a webserver leaking PII data This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VSploit Web PII', 'Description' = 'This module emulates a webserver leaking PII data', 'License...

Massive data leakage in Vodafone Australia !

Australian media giant Fairfax leads today with dramatic claims that customer data from mobile phone company Vodafone Australia is routinely falling into the wrong hands, thanks to lax database security. According to Fairfax, Vodafone's customer database is accessible to all its dealers over the...

Preventing Data Breaches: Lessons From Higher Education

Since 2008, higher education institutions have experienced a staggering 158 data breaches resulting in over 2.3 million reported records compromised. In 2009 alone there were 57 reported data breaches, and year to date through July of 2010, there have already been 32 breaches. Considering that mo...