Is this the latest hacking trend?
Dumping data on entire countries? Interesting that VietNamese
securities companies have millions of customers...
Personal
information of millions of Vietnamese offered for sale
January 5, 2012 by admin
VietNam reportedly has its first case
of prosecuting individuals for selling personal information:
Three men in HCM
City, including Duong Hong Le, Le Minh Trung and Hua Van Tuan, are
accused of illegally collecting phone numbers and personal
information of millions of people who are clients at securities and
real estate trading companies–to sale, earning tens of thousands of
USD.
Police recently
found out that these men offered for sale personal information of
millions of people on the Internet.
These people said
that they used to work at many securities and real estate companies
so they had information about many clients. After leaving these
firms, they exchanged data and offered for sale the information on
the net.
[....]
Police said that
this is the first time they deal with such a case. As the three
people sincerely declared information and their act did not cause
serious consequence, they would be fined only.
Police are
investigating many websites that perform similar act.
Source: VietNamNet.
(Update) This makes the story much
more believable...
VN:
3 men identified as illegal sellers of private info
January 6, 2012 by admin
I just came across a more detailed news
report on the VietNam breach I mentioned yesterday. Tuoi
Tre reports:
In October 2010,
[Duong Hong] Le set up the company’s official website at
danhsachkhachhang.com, but the site has focused only on offering to
sell lists of information on individuals, companies and
organizations.
The website…
contains the names of 30,000 prepaid mobile phone subscribers of
MobiFone in HCMC, 1,200 chairmen of management boards of companies,
850 members of the Entrepreneurs’ Club 2030, 780 stock investors
at the Vien Dong Company, 1,100 TVSI stock investors, 700
customers of the VGB gold trading floor, 2,230 owners of real estate
in the Phu My Hung New Urban Area, 800 owners of properties from Him
Lam , 1,200 customers of the Saigon Pearl Project, 1,300 Mercedes
owners, 750 BMW owners, 1,300 members of the FV Hospital, 10,000
customers of Nguyen Kim Shopping Center, and 500 architects at
various companies in HCMC.
According to
investigators, Le has 51 lists of information for sale at a price of
VND500,000-600,000 per list.
Le told
investigators that he had earned about VND21 million
(US$1,000) from the illegal business.
He said he had
halted his business operations on January 1, 2011 after Tuoi Tre
published an article about his illegal trading of private
information, but six months later, he continued his activities, since
he found that many other websites did the same and thought that such
activities would not be banned.
Le said he had
bought all of the lists from a man named Le Minh Trung, owner of the
website www.timkhachhang.com, and Hua Van Tuan, who owns the website
www.dtavip.com.
[...]
As of December
2011, [Le Minh] Trung had about 230 lists of customers in the fields
of economics, finance, investment, and real estate. Each list
contains detailed personal information such as names, telephone
numbers, and workplaces of customers.
Read more on Tuoi
Tre. This seems to be a fairly widespread
problem in VietNam, and while the information may not be
hugely sensitive, if they’re not careful, they’ll wind up with
data being sold and re-sold, and re-sold… and before you know it,
their databases will be as inaccurate and as annoying as ours.
This now looks like one hacker trying
to become famous.
Update:
Saudi hacker warns he is in possession of one million Israeli credit
card numbers
January 5, 2012 by admin
Oded Yaron reports:
The Saudi hacker
who managed to steal 15 thousand Israeli credit cards revealed
another 11 thousand stolen numbers on Thursday, and threatened to
release one million total stolen numbers.
According to a
message left on the Saudi hacking group Group-XP’s message board,
the hacker, who goes by the name of 0xOmar, was able to hack “much
more than one can imagine.”
Read more on Haaretz.com.
Update: Ynet
has more details on the latest developments.
In a statement on Pastebin,
the hacker reveals more details, including some of the names of
businesses whose servers were hacked:
Hi
It’s 0xOmar from
group-xp, greatest Saudi Arabian hacker team.
We have leaked
400,000+ Israeli people details, including credit cards, but we have
seen some stuff which needs attention:
- An Israeli
stupid student says it was only 14,000 cards, while only A SIGNLE
FILE we uploaded contains 27000 working credit cards, right now I’m
sending this data from VPS server I have purchased with those cards.
It was so bad media failure. Fake Jewish and Zionist lobby media
started writing what a stupid student says. This made me a little
unhappy. So I’ve started thinking of sending all Israeli credit
cards I own which reaches 1M data. I’ll do it soon!
- Some other
Jewish lobby fake media sites wrote that it was only One.co.il which
is hacked, who says that? Another stupid Israeli student? No, it’s
wrong. I’ve hacked more than 80 Israeli servers to gather those
data. Each of them are so big and high profile, just some of them is
One.co.il, bizmakebiz (Israeli business site), ezpay, Judaism, etc.
- Israeli online
lobby was able to delete all my pages from Pastebin, Pastebay,
Multiupload, Hotfile, etc. etc. This time you’ll not be able to do
so. Pastebay says it’s uncensored text hosting, but it seems
censoring have different meaning for Zionist lobby
Because of the
above issues, I’ll send Israeli details some often, for now I have
added another 11,000 credit cards which contains IsraCards and
DinnerDash cards. This database contains 60,000 credit cards which
also has MasterCard and Visa cards, but I’ll send them later among
with a lot of others.
I’ve hacked much
more than you can imagine, but I hate fake media and Zionist lobby in
media and internet.
If needed maybe in
next time I start sharing all data I have downloaded from Israeli
military contractor companies and let the world have their all
documents, I’m thinking to start doing it from an Israeli company
which creates jammers and eavesdropping devices.
For now, you can
download Israeli credit cards from below URLs which includes torrent,
just search Credit Cards.rar.torrent in torrent sharing sites.
[...]
Saudi Arabia for
ever! Saudi Arabia rules, long life King Abdullah!
assalamu alaikum
wa rahmatullah
While most of the sites to which the
data had been uploaded quickly deleted the files, copies of the
latest upload are still available on the web.
Ubiquitous surveillance. Or maybe
drones over Mile High stadium? Coverage of weddings and bar
mitzvahs? Should I start a “Drone Fund?”
Livestreaming
Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones
It may not sound like much: A video
blogger bought a toy helicopter.
But the blogger is 25-year-old Tim Pool
— an internationally known journalist who attracts tens of
thousands of viewers to his live-stream broadcasts from Occupy Wall
Street protests in New York, DC, LA and other cities. (His feeds and
archival footage are also aired on mainstream networks such as NBC.)
He and his partners hope that the toy chopper — the $300 Parrot AR
Drone — will be one step toward a citizen-driven alternative to
mainstream news.
… Having thoroughly figured out how
to cover giant events from ground level, they are now exploring
ultra-cheap alternatives to the hundreds of thousands of dollar news
choppers used for aerial reporting of big events like protest marches
and police clashes. In the process, the video bloggers are
discovering both how far low-cost consumer technology has come and
how much farther it needs to go.
Like the HD video cameras now included
in the live-streamers’ cellphones, aerial surveillance drones have
progressed from ultra-expensive professional gear to impulse-buy
items. What was once in the Pentagon budget is now
at Toys ‘R Us – in a simple form, at least.
(Related) maybe I should just get into
the drone business?
Obama’s
New Defense Plan: Drones, Spec Ops and Cyber War
Local Lots of interesting questions
here. Clearly encrypting your data suggests you had an expectation
of privacy but since there was a warrant can that force you to
incriminate yourself? The Feds are looking at this as “We searched
and found a safe, the stolen money is there!”
Feds
Want Judge to Force Suspect to Give Up Laptop Password
January 5, 2012 by Dissent
David Kravets reports that a ruling is
expected soon on a case previously
mentioned on this
blog:
Federal
prosecutors want a judge to order a Colorado woman to provide the
password to decrypt her laptop which the government seized with a
search warrant.
With back-up from
digital rights groups, the woman is fighting the feds, arguing that
being forced to provide her password violates the 5th Amendment’s
protection against self-incrimination.
Colorado U.S.
District Judge Robert Blackburn is expected to rule any day on
whether to force defendant Ramona Fricosu to decrypt her Toshiba
Satellite M305, which authorities seized from her in 2010 with a
court warrant while investigating financial fraud.
Read more on Threat
Level.
Attention all you lawyers who missed
out on the Y2K disaster (because it never happened) This one has
real potential!
Ready
Your Watch: The Leap Second Is Coming
The International Earth Rotation and
Reference Systems Service (IERS) in Paris — the grand arbiters of
time on our big blue marble — has declared
that a leap second will be introduced on 30 June, 2012.
When Draino is outlawed only outlaws
will have Draino! Fortunately, they have not heard of Dihydrous
Monoxide (See: dhmo.org or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
)
IL:
‘Drano’ law an invasion of privacy
January 6, 2012 by Dissent
Have we reached
the point as a society where our grandmothers have to show ID and
sign a log book to buy a bottle of Drano?
Apparently,
lawmakers in Springfield, including Marengo Democrat Jack Franks,
thought the answer was yes.
They passed a new
law that requires anyone who buys caustic and noxious substances,
which include everyday items such as drain cleaners and pool
chemicals, have their name, address and amount of purchase entered
into a log at the store.
The law came in
response to a couple of incidents where people in Chicago were
disfigured for life after they were burned with acid. The enormity
of such attacks is unquestionable – but the state’s method of
fighting this problem is questionable.
Read more on Northwest
Herald.
Fortunately, my students never read my
blog...
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one
who recognizes stupidity when it appears... I guess they could have
texted drivers during rush hour...
National
Phone Survey on Distracted Driving Attitudes and Behaviors
Geeky stuff
For the first time since it sprang onto
the web in 2004, Nginx (pronounced “engine-ex”), the lightweight
open source web server that could, has overtaken Microsoft IIS to
become the second
most used server on the web.
This could be very handy...
BenchPrep
Is Codecademy For Any Subject, High School To Med School
Books are not the best way to learn.
To retain knowledge you have to interact with it, and that’s where
BenchPrep comes in. The
startup licenses textbooks from big publishers like McGraw Hill and
converts them into interactive web and mobile learning courses.
Today, BenchPrep announces its expansion beyond college admission
test prep. It will now offer courses to assist with high school,
university, law, medicine, professional certifications, army, and
more. It’s also releasing a new evaluation tool that determines a
student’s weaknesses in a given subject. BenchPrep
is the future of the ‘education anywhere’ movement. [Worth
investigating? Bob]
… In about 7 days, BenchPrep can
convert any textbook, say one on Calculus that sells for $50, into an
interactive course it can sell for $100. That’s still much cheaper
than taking a class in person. The publisher gets paid royalties on
each course sale, and Rangnekar says BenchPrep plans to be cash-flow
positive by June. New partnerships with more publishers will add 50
more courses to its library in the coming months.
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