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A self-proclaimed hacker going by the name TibitXimer on Saturday leaked some 300,000 Verizon Wireless customer records after breaching the company's security systems. He downloaded ... 
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NullCrew has targeted the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD), and used a simple SQL Injection attack to plunder thousands of email addresses and passwords.
Read more: http://www.securityweek.com/uks-ministry-defence-breached-easy-sql-injection
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What are your chances of being hacked? Find out some easy ways to prevent a breach of your system.
A MUST read: http://mashable.com/2012/11/05/cybersecurity-infographic/
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She's got a right to be incensed, with 77% of the state's population's Social Security numbers being snatched out from under the Department of Revenue. But what's the appropriate penalty for the ...
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Universities face unique challenges keeping their servers and networks secure from cyber-criminals while accommodating the influx of student and faculty-owned devices each year. A recent analysis of online transaction data highlighted to what extent some universities have already been compromised.
ThreatMextrix looked at all the data collected by its systems in September and filtered out only IP addresses that corresponded to university networks for this analysis, Faulkner said.
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Japanese Government Investigates Major University Data Breaches...
At the beginning of October, Team GhostShell published around 120,000 record sets collected after breaching several of the world’s most important universities. Since some of the affected educational institutions are from Japan, the country’s government has launched an investigation into the matter.
The affected institutions are Osaka City University, University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, Tohoku University, and Kyoto University.
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Summary: The hacktivist group behind Project Hellfire claims to have leaked records from 100 of the top universities around the world.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/ghostshell-leaks-120000-records-from-top-100-universities-7000005118/
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Following yesterday's claim made by AnitSec hackers that they have gotten ahold of a document containing a list of over 12 million Apple iOS devices - including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, ZIP codes, cellphone numbers, addresses, and more - after breaking into a computer used by an FBI agent, the agency has issued a resounding denial via Twitter:
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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13528
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Wer ein iPhone oder ein iPad sein eigen nennt, findet sich vielleicht auf einer im Netz veröffentlichten Liste wieder. Noch brisanter ist aber die Herkunft der Daten.
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Indiana-based Cancer Care Group has lost server backups with data on 55,000 patients and staff from a parked car.
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URI took a publicly available server offline after a breach compromised the information of faculty and students.
University of Rhode Island (URI) officials disabled the school's College of Business Administration computer server, after the personal information of more than 1,000 faculty and students, as well as students from another school, was publicly available. How many victims?
About 1,000 current and former URI faculty members, in addition to 22 former students of the university and 80 students from an unnamed out-of-state school.
What type of personal information? The names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and some compensation information of faculty members.
Former URI students had their Social Security numbers and names exposed, while students from the out-of-state school had their grades, names and Social Security numbers posted to the server.
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Sony, AOL, Google: Sie alle haben bereits mit Datenschutz-Skandalen für negative Schlagzeilen gesorgt. Wir zeigen Ihnen diese und zwölf weitere Datenschutz-Skandale der vergangenen Wochen, Monate und Jahre.
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The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the procedures and formats for personal data breach notifications under the ePrivacy Directive. (2002/58/EC).
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A recent survey from the Ponemon Institute and ID Experts found that breaches are costing the health care industry an average of 7 billion annually.
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The company denies 240,000 customer credit card details were stolen but hackers gained access to customer information.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/au/pizza-hut-hacked-customer-info-lost-credit-card-details-safe-7000007016/
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"Waging war" on Russia, hacktivist collective GhostShell have released 2.5 million records stolen from the Russian government.
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University of Georgia Hacked, at Least 8,500 Employees Exposed...
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An information breach at a Florida college has compromised information of about 279,000 students and employees, the Florida Department of Education said on Wednesday.
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A team of hackers claims to have broken into more than 120,000 computer accounts at dozens of universities to protest what it sees as the high cost and low quality of higher education. The group, called “Team GhostShell,” claimed responsibility on Monday for the computer attacks in a post to an online bulletin board.
The post listed the universities that were the group’s targets, including Harvard University and the Universities of Cambridge and Tokyo.
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BlueToad, a Florida-based digital edition publishing company, has announced that the recent massive Apple UDID leak originated from their own servers, and not an FBI laptop.
Read more: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13560
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The website of Hertfordshire Police has been hacked, with login details and passwords for dozens of officers published.
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What appear to be computer logins and passwords for Hertfordshire Police officers are published online after the force website is hacked.
The data, including phone numbers and IP addresses, relates to a number of officers in Safer Neighbourhood Teams. Part of the force's website has been taken down as a "precaution" while investigations continue.
In a statement, the force said: "Hertfordshire Constabulary is currently investigating following the publication on the internet of information stored on a database linked to the public Safer Neighbourhoods pages of the external Constabulary website.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19432487
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===> Über eine Million Nutzer sollen betroffen sein <=== – die Angreifer hatten sich insbesondere Banken, Behörden und Beratungsfirmen vorgenommen. Sie veröffentlichten nun Nutzernamen und Passwörter sowie Anmeldedaten der Mitarbeiter – inklusive Administratoren. Das für den Diebstahl verantwortliche Team GhostShell kündigt weitere Veröffentlichungen an.
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A physician’s unencrypted personal laptop that may have contained protected health information on 3,900 patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center was stolen, the hospital admitted Monday.
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The personal and medical records of some 4.9 million active and retired military and their families may have been exposed to possible theft in a major data breach, their health...
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