UPDATED: Yet another embarassing data leakage
03/06/2009 Written by Boris Mutina (minor)
Sensitive data leakage is nothing new, it's sometimes pretty embarassing, when you realize the lack of what we call security awareness. Slovakia is not an exception at all when discussing the security incidents, just to mention interesting incident related to Slovak National Security Authority, or the disclosure of the whole cellphone number database of one operator, naturally also with the secret numbers of the politicians and other important persons.
One of the last really stupid incidents happened again online: secret service employee was fired after he posted his photo on popular dating website. The photo was found by his co-workers...
Oh dear, spammers gave us a good laugh!
28/05/2009 Written by SyS64738
Today, for the second time we received a mail (call it spam) from a company named Owen Media Partners. The mail is basically saying that given the fact that they saw a link in our archives pointing at a website similar to their own, they request us to add also their URL in our archives.
I bet they didn't understand what a defacement archive is. Given the fact that in two weeks I got their spam mail twice, we decided to make them happy, and to host a link to their website... by making this news. We are always keen to help proactive people promoting their activities!
Hey, if you didn't realize yet, we are a bit ironical here.
Here is the hilarious text of the email we just received (at least for us, given that zone-h is a cybercrime archive)...
Government website of Jordan used for phishing
27/05/2009 Written by Boris Mutina (minor)
The phishing scams are quite common in our mailboxes, among them PayPal related are the ones most used and the less to be believed. Anyway it might appear to be useful to observe those scams and thanks to this one of the latest phishing attempts appeared to be really interesting.
Confidence 2009 in Cracovia
19/05/2009 Written by Boris Mutina (minor)
Once again I was lucky to attend really perfect security conference and here are some notes from there. Confidence is the one really high-profile conference in Central Europe. The strongest "magnets" this year were Bruce Schneier and Joanna Rutkowska. Here are few notes from this event.
Day 1
Since I didn't knew anything about the road reconstruction that is taking place now in Poland, I arrived to the conference venue too late and missed those "magnets".
Microsoft, HSBC, Sony, Coca-Cola(...) New Zealand hacked - UPDATED
21/04/2009 Written by Marcelo Almeida and Kevin Fernandez
Earlier today some Turkish defacers broke into the New Zealand based registrar Domainz.net (which belongs to MelbourneIT) and redirected some of their customers' high profile web sites to a third party server with a defaced page. Companies which had their New Zealand web sites defaced include Microsoft, HSBC, Coca-Cola, F-secure, Bitdefender, Sony and Xerox.
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