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Fort Lewis soldiers exposed by laptop theft

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2008-07-11 13:44:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Fort Lewis The principal Fort Lewis maneuver units are the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division and the 3d Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. It is also home to the 593d Corps Support Group, the 555th Engineer Group, the 1st MP Brigade (Provisional), the I Corps NCO Academy, Headquarters, Fourth ROTC Region, the 1st Personnel Support Group, 1st...
 
Tags: fort lewis soldiers, soldiers, fort lewis, information, personal information, lacey police officials, officials, army, army standards
 
 
 
 
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Some IPFW students exposed through malware

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2007-11-29 13:26:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Fort Wayne (IPFW Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Certain current and former "mostly international" students Number Affected 32 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers (and Individual Taxpayer Identification numbers Breach Description IPFW announced that personal information pertaining to certain current and former...
 
Tags: purdue university, university, information, personal information, university department, university fort wayne, computer, vulnerable information, students
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...fort and blow them up. Those made some nice explosions. It wasnt until a later experiment that I learned I was collecting oxygen in addition to hydrogen through electrolysis That later experiment occurred when I discovered dads acetylene tanks (hes a jeweler and has a torch for soldering). At first I was disappointed. Balloons filled with...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Fort Worth-based bank Evan] I wonder how sophisticated this attack really was. My first suspicion is a targeted (spear) phishing attack, which isn't very sophisticated The amount stolen is not yet known, he said, describing it only as "minimal." No depositors will lose money, he said Fewer than 100 accounts, some of them dormant, were...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fort Gazette online story The Sun-Sentinel online story Report Credit Daniel Brownstein, The Beaufort Gazette Response From the online sources cited above A former employee of a locally connected national hospital chain who was convicted of identity theft had access to the personal information of about 37,000 patients, according to a company...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters
 
 
 
 
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Name That Wireless Tower

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2008-06-01 13:33:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
On a visit with my older son to Port Townsend, Wash., a few days ago, I spotted this odd tower: That's my father and my older boy in the photo, looking at this stack of wireless gear at Fort Worden, a state park and former garrison of democracy. We spotted another one near the water in downtown PT, as the town is known to locals. Any ideas? Post...
 
Tags: days ago, odd tower, port townsend, wireless gear, locals, downtown, wash, son, photo
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Case Shuts Out Valedictorian, Other Seniors

2008-06-05 03:28:04 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Fort Bend Independent School District seniors who will not be allowed to take part in graduation ceremonies because of an investigation into tampering with the districts computer network Khurrum Khan, 18, is the only valedictorian involved in the computer tampering incidents, which also occurred at Hightower and Elkins high schools, district...
 
Tags: valedictorian, graduation ceremonies, bush graduation ceremonies, class salutatorian saturday, schools valedictorian, districts computer network, class, computer, schools
 
 
 
 
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Ransomware

2008-06-16 13:09:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Fort Knox You'll also see this message appear on your screen Your files are encrypted with RSA-1024 algorithm. To recovery your files you need to buy our decryptor. To buy decrypting tool contact us at: ********@yahoo.com How is this any worse than the old hacker viruses that put a funny message on your screen and erased your hard drive?...
 
Tags: files, vital files forever, valuable files, individual, funny message, individual users, message, fort knox, real back-ups
 
 
 
 
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Blamestorming

2008-09-12 06:03:42 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Fort Lauderdale accidentally republishes a six-year-old news story about the bankruptcy of UAL. It wasn't on the home page, but instead buried somewhere inside the web site Google's news crawler (an automated thing, remember) finds the story and incorporates it as part of its news feed Investors see the story, and immediately react. When...
 
Tags: news, news aggregator, news feed, six-year-old news story, story, news crawler, tribune company, google, successful attack vector
 
 
 
 
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Fort Jennings State Bank Website Hacked, Hosting A Phishing Page For Italian Poste Italiane Bank

2008-10-01 22:56:25 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
SophosLabs reports an unusual bank phishing spam campaign where particular image phish targets the Italian bank Poste Italiane. The phishing email itself (in Italian) entices users to go to the link in order to receive 250 Euros worth of loyalty bonus. This scheme is fairly typical and the link in the message goes to a
 
Tags: image phish targets, link, spam campaign, fairly typical, italian, euros worth, loyalty bonus, sophoslabs reports, entices users