Want lunch? Palm it over

Fed up with using swipe cards and PINs for their students’ lunch payments, a school board district in Clearwater, Fla. recently partnered with microelectronic company Fujitsu to use palm vein readers for nearly half of their 102,000 students. Pinellas County School Board District spent $120,000 t...

Feds Sidestep Controversy By Circumventing Device Encryption

A Colorado District Court Ruling to force the suspect in a fraud case to surrender the encryption key to her laptop was deemed unnecessary after federal authorities managed to circumvent the device’s encryption, Ars Technica reports. The development effectively ends what has been a controversial...

Finnish ISP is blocking the Pirate Bay, Anonymous stand for Freedom of Expression !

Finnish ISP is blocking the Pirate Bay, Anonymous stand for Freedom of Expression ! Anonymous has urged its followers to target Finnish anti-piracy body the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre CIAPC after it persuaded the Helsinki District Court to force one of the country's biggest ISPs...

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has fired his lawyer in favour of one with experience in batting for The Pirate Bay, according to a Swedish news report. Julian Assange has ditched his Swedish legal counsel and lined up a new defence team ...

Hacker Claims He Breached Texas Water Plant

A hacker claims to have breached a water utility in Texas and has posted reputed screenshots online to prove it. The water plant targeted by the hacker, who uses the alias “Pr0f”, is in the Harris County city of South Houston. In a post on Pastebin, Pr0f said his actions were in response to what ...

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II" from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The two...

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II " from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The tw...

Phisher Hooks Condé Nast, Reels in $8 Million

Condé Nast was baited in a phishing scam that netted a Texas man nearly $8 million in company funds, according to published reports. According to a complaint filed in Manhattan District Court by the U.S. Attorney’s Office last week, the publishing giant was fooled by a single phishing e-mail sent...

New Jersey Student Record Database Hacked

A New Jersey school district was vandalized by members of the online mischief making group 4chan after an administrative password to a student record management system used at 160 school systems across New Jersey. The hack occurred after the administrative account used by the Plainfield, New...

TJX Hacker Gets 20-Year Jail Sentence

Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the “unparalleled” theft of millions of credit card numbers from major U.S. retailers. U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris...

ID Theft Criminal Sentenced to 309 Years in Prison

Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, age 43, of Zachary, La., was sentenced to a term of 309 years in prison. Thompson, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, was sentenced based on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device...

FBI: NY School District Accounts Targeted

The FBI is investigating the theft of nearly a half million dollars from tiny Duanesburg Central School District in upstate New York, after cyber thieves tried to loot roughly $3.8 million from district online bank accounts last month. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Major Spam Network Fined Over $15 Million

A U.S. district court judge has ordered the largest “spam gang” in the world to pay nearly $15.2 million for sending unsolicited e-mail messages marketing male-enhancement pills, prescription drugs, and weight-loss supplements, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Read the full article...

FTC pulls plug on spam, child porn ISP

A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content has been shut down by a district court judge at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The ISP’s upstream provider...

SchoolCenter URL Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

SchoolCenter URL Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability A vulnerability has been identified in SchoolCenter Software, which could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting attacks. Attackers can run arbitrary code that can be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1422-1] New e2fsprogs packages fix arbitrary code execution

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