Data Theft > Identity Theft > 11 Charged

The largest data theft and identity theft case prosecuted by the Department of Justice, leads to eleven people being charged with numerous crimes, including conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft, the DOJ announced, charges relate to the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers.
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and U.S. [...]

Feds Delete ca.gov Domain during Porn Hack

The U.S. government took down ALL of the state of California’s government Internet sites this week in order to thwart an attack on Marin County’s transportation authority site. Visitors to the county agency were being redirected to a porn site.
In their haste the government staff apparently deleted the ca.gov domain by accident and destroyed forensic [...]

Boeing Employee Fired for Discussing Computer Security

Boeing has fired an employee for speaking to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer - the newspaper published a story in July saying that Boeing couldn’t properly protect data in its computer systems from theft, manipulation and fraud.
The former employee claims the company is retaliating against him, instead of trying to fix its problems. An anonymous e-mail [...]

GoDaddy Domain Search Scam

Several weeks ago I performed a domain lookup on GoDaddy but didn’t have time to make the purchase so went back two days later to find it had been snapped up, it was an obscure name so it raised some suspicion but I dismissed it and did my thing again and came up with another [...]

MediaDefender Emails Leaked

“The company MediaDefender works with the RIAA and MPAA against piracy, setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p traffic. Previously, the TorrentFreak site accused them of setting up a fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users. MediaDefender denied the entrapment charges. Now 700MB of MediaDefender’s internal emails from the [...]

New Momentus Drive Slams Door Shut on Data Thieves

Seagate is responding to this threat with a new notebook hard drive designed to protect data from falling into the wrong hands. The Momentus 5400 FDE 2.5-inch drive, announced earlier this month, is the first from a major manufacturer to offer hardware-based full disc encryption technology (FDE), which provides extra protection against unauthorized access to [...]