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Personal information stolen from Georgia DHR

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2008-03-27 15:51:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Georgia Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Human Resources Victims Current and former employees Number Affected Unknown Types of Data names, social security numbers, birth dates, home contact and federal tax information Breach Description The Georgia Department of Human Resources is taking extensive measures to alert current and...
 
Tags: georgia dhr, dhr, georgia, information, agency, agency urges employees, georgia law, georgia department, employees
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack Against Georgia Preceded Real Attack

2008-08-18 13:11:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Georgian government blamed Russia for the attacks, but the Russian government said it was not involved. In the end, Georgia, with a population of just 4.6 million and a relative latecomer to the Internet, saw little effect beyond inaccessibility to many of its government Web sites, which limited the government's ability to spread its message...
 
Tags: georgia, indirect russian action, russian, georgian government, government, russian troops, spread, georgia spread, government web sites
 
 
 
 
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Unauthorized access to University of Georgia server affects 4,250

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2008-01-09 15:32:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Georgia Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current graduate students living in family housing AND former students and applicants Number Affected 4,250 Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description Sometime between December 29th and December 31st, 2007 a "hacker" using a computer "with an overseas IP...
 
Tags: university, server, georgia server, university students, georgia, overseas hacker, hacker, access, server off-line
 
 
 
 
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The Russia vs Georgia Cyber Attack

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2008-08-11 19:35:55 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Georgia President's web site seemed like a signal shot for the cyber siege to come a week later. Here's the complete coverage of the coordination phrase, the execution and the actual impact of the cyber attack so far - " Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress Whos behind it? The infamous Russian Business Network, or literally...
 
Tags: georgia cyber attack, cyber attack, attack, georgia, georgia president, russian, russian web, ddos attack, russian hackers
 
 
 
 
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Who's Behind the Georgia Cyber Attacks?

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2008-08-14 10:16:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Georgia cyber attack in progress ), common sense must prevail Sometimes, the degree of incompetence can in fact be pretty entertaining, and greatly explains why certain countries are lacking behind others with years in their inability to understand the rules of information warfare, or the basic premise of unrestricted warfare, that there are...
 
Tags: attacks, georgia cyber attacks, warfare, departamental cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, information warfare concept, information warfare, russian, russian oligarchs
 
 
 
 
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Website For The President Of Georgia Under Distributed Denial Of Service Attack

2008-07-20 22:08:02 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili (www.president.gov.ge). For over 24 hours the website has been rendered unavailable. The attack began very early Saturday morning (Georgian time). Shadowserver has observed at least one web-based command and control (C&C) server taking
 
Tags: website, attack, president, shadowserver reports, shadowserver, georgian time, georgia, mikhail saakashvili, denial
 
 
 
 
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Georgia president's Web site falls under DDOS attack

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4704c in Network World on Security
 
The Web site for the president of Georgia was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attacks against countries experiencing political friction with Russia
 
Tags: web site, cyberattacks attacks, attack, political friction, ddos, georgia, president, russia, weekend
 
 
 
 
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Georgia student arrested for hacking grades, VoIP

2008-07-29 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A 19-year-old Cartersville, Georgia, college student has been charged with hacking into his school's computer system to change grades and steal other user's passwords
 
Tags: georgia, computer system, 19-year-old cartersville, change grades, college student, passwords, user, school
 
 
 
 
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Georgia businessman guilty of E-Rate bribery

2008-08-01 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A Georgia businessman is found guilty of bribery charges in connection with the U.S. E-Rate program
 
Tags: georgia businessman, guilty, bribery charges, connection, program