Collaborate Disseminate
The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) in Texas describes itself as a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve U.S. student performance in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. According to their notification l… Continue reading National Math and Science Initiative notifies more than 190,000 of data security incident
Zack Whittaker reports: The donation site used by truckers in Ottawa who are currently protesting against national vaccine mandates has fixed a security lapse that exposed passports and driver licenses of donors. […] TechCrunch was tipped off to … Continue reading Donation site for Ottawa truckers’ ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest exposed donors’ data
Bill Toulas reports: … As revealed, the institution’s site was hit by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack which aims to overwhelm a website with high volumes of “garbage” traffic and a large number of bogus connection requests. Th… Continue reading Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day
If anyone knows anything about the attack described below, please contact me via Signal or via email (see the Contact page for both). You can also reach me on Telegram @DissentDoe. And if you are the threat actor and are willing to delete/purge the dat… Continue reading If you are the threat actor(s) responsible for a Swiss contractor attack, please read this
Ivan Martin reports: An IT firm responsible for a massive leak of voter data has been fined €65,000 for data breaches. Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara issued the administrative penalty against C-Planet It Solutions Limited which was hired by t… Continue reading Mt: IT firm C-Planet fined €65,000 over massive voter data breach
A financial penalty of $14,000 was imposed on Nature Society (Singapore) for breaches of the PDPA. First, the organisation failed to put in place reasonable measures to protect personal data on its website database. Second, it did not appoint a data pr… Continue reading Breach of the Protection and Accountability Obligations by Nature Society (Singapore) 14 Jan 2022
Carly Page reports: Microsoft has seized control of a number of websites that were being used by a Chinese government-backed hacking group to target organizations in 29 countries, including the U.S. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCI) said on Monday … Continue reading Microsoft seizes control of websites used by China-backed hackers
A Russian man was sentenced today for providing “bulletproof hosting” services, which were used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. On Dec. 1, Chief Ju… Continue reading Russian Man Sentenced for Providing ‘Bulletproof Hosting’ for Cybercriminals
Carla Rogner reports: Natalie Claus is looking forward to graduating from SUNY Geneseo in December, but first she is focusing on another date on her calendar. On Wednesday, Claus will face a stranger in court, David Mondore, who hacked her snapchat acc… Continue reading SUNY Geneseo student to face hacker in court two years after explicit photos were leaked
This one could be interesting, if verified and depending on what data the threat actors may have acquired. Grief has added the NRA to their dedicated leak site. So far, they have dumped two screencaps and a file with grants information as proof of clai… Continue reading National Rifle Association hacked by Grief?