Looks like we have another bunch of show offs.
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=19456
Connexion Hack Team dumps military and government email addresses and passwords as well as a California government site’s table of donors
July 6, 2011 by admin
16,959 e-mail accounts have been dumped to MediaFire recently, ZeroPaid has learned. The 1.18MB text file was uploaded by Connexion Hack Team. The file contains government and military e-mail accounts and passwords. ZeroPaid has also learned that many popular e-mail providers are also seen in the list of accounts compromised.
Read more on ZeroPaid, who provide a sampling of the email addresses included in the data dump.
In a previous post, Zeropaid reported that the same group had claimed responsibility for hacking http://www.fppc.ca.gov, the web site of the California Fair Political Practices Commission. In that data dump, the hackers also included usernames and passwords. In their announcement of that hack, they write, in part:
To prove that we hacked your website, we provided a table below of all the candidates, administration info, and the list of donators and who they donated to. We have done all this attempt to show the people the corrupt governments of the world. You may not be a government but you have connections. So therefore, we shall disrupt the internet ocean, revolutionise the world, all in the name of #AntiSec.
I must redundantly reiterate my repetition. Any scheme that SciFi writers would ignore as impossible is welcomed by TSA as justification for more manpower and higher budgets. It would now be cheaper to arm airline passengers with handguns that to “provide security”
http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_18421234?nclick_check=1
TSA warns of implant bombers, prepares fliers for swab tests
… The Transportation Security Administration advised airlines that terror groups are believed to be experimenting with explosives that could be implanted in buttocks and breasts, allowing suicide bombers to pass through airport body scanners undetected. This raised the specter of a surgically altered world in which it must be asked: If Pamela Anderson has to undergo an MRI to get on an airplane, have the terrorists won? [Or maybe they need to justify a boob-patdown? Bob]
When does sharp merchandizing become a scam?
Banks' billion-dollar idea: Sell your shopping data
Many of the nation's leading banks and card issuers, including Wells Fargo, Citi, USAA, Sovereign Bank and Discover, are selling information about consumers' shopping habits -- how much they spend, where they shop and what they buy -- to retailers.
Retailers are using the data to offer targeted discounts via text, email and online bank statements. Each time a consumer cashes in on one of those deals, the retailer pays the bank a nice commission.
… Cardlytics, which provides similar services for 125 banks and a network of retailers, says merchants pay banks an average fee of 10 percent to 15 percent of the purchase price of a product each time a customer uses a discount that's generated from the bank's data.
Typically, the bank takes a 25 percent cut of that fee and pays an intermediary, like Cardlytics, the rest. So if a customer buys a $1,000 couch, the merchant pays a fee of up to $150 to the bank and the bank walks away with $37.50.
… like any new program, there are still plenty of kinks to get worked out.
Take, for example, the retroactively applied credit these programs issue. Merchants could decide to add fine print to their offers that exclude certain brands or add purchase conditions so that consumers think they'll be getting a discount but discover the credit was never applied, explained Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of CardHub.com.
“There's a risk that you might not get what you're hoping to get -- you're leaving the store and you don't know how much you were actually charged for something,“ he said. “Then if you don't see it on your credit card statement, what do you do? Call your bank? Call the intermediary company? Or call the merchant? If they start using fine print, the whole thing's just going to be a big mess.“
… (In most of cases, consumers are automatically enrolled in the merchant incentive programs, but they do have the right to opt out -- as required by bank regulations.)
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http://www.databreaches.net/?p=19494
UK: Banks face more privacy complaints from customers than any other group
July 7, 2011 by admin
Gerri Peev:
Banks have attracted more customer complaints than any other group over allegations of mishandling sensitive information, the privacy watchdog reveals today.
Lenders routinely lost, released or wrongly recorded personal data, the Information Commissioner warned in his annual report which detailed 603 complaints.
But the true scale of privacy and data breaches could be much higher, because the private sector is not obliged to report complaints to the Information Commissioner.
Read more on Daily Mail
...and you thought texting while driving was bad.
Facebook Announces New Design, In-Browser Video Chat With Skype
… In a major partnership with Skype, Facebook now offers free video calling between connected users of the site.
… Facebook’s partnership with Skype is, in essence, a partnership with Microsoft, who acquired the chatting platform for $8.5 billion. The move should benefit Microsoft, too, by expanding Skype’s presence into the social networking realm.
A picture is worth “up to $24 Billion”
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sony-playstation-network-breach-infographic/
The Sony Playstation Network Hack [Infographic]
Where Oh Where: Current State Of World’s Data Storage (Infographic)
http://mozy.com/assets/816/where-is-the-worlds-data-stored.gif
For my Intro to IT students...
An Introduction to Advanced Google Search
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