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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the target. Malicious code was discovered on a document management database server. The university contacted law enforcement and after a month-long investigation realized that the database on the system contained over 75,000 records that included social security numbers for both students and employees. Nobody is sure how long the malware was running on the server, but it was shutdown once the breach was found. It’s suspected that the software was being used to identify cutting edge research that the school is working on, but that has yet to be confirmed. It’s also good to know that while students may have had their identity stolen, the database contained no “ academic information such as student grades ,” so at least the attackers won’t be able to identify whether students passed their criminology courses.

UNITED Security Summit 2011 , 19-20 September - San Francisco The UNITED Security Summit is focused on innovation and collaboration in the security community. Bringing together security decision makers, practitioners, commercial vendors, open source projects and academia, the Summit highlights technologies and approaches that will help organizations better cope with the increased security threats they are seeing on a daily basis.Based on the anatomy of a breach, the Summit provides educational and interactive sessions that will reflect on the fundamental security challenges from four perspectives through a common lens. Date : 19 September-20 September 2011 Location : Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, USA

JonDo 00.15.004 IP changer with Bitcoin, connection manipulation protection and higher efficiency JonDos publishes a new version of the JonDo-Software, an IP changer and IP anonymization program, that you can use for anonymous surfing in the Internet with high security anonymous proxy servers. What is new? JonDo now integrates Bitcoin as additional payment method for the JonDonym Premium services: For every new payment, a new random Bitcoin address is generated. This hides against third parties for what a customer pays. Additionally, all data about the payment proccess are deleted after completion in order to fulfill even the highest privacy requirements. But of course, even if the identity of a buyer was known, neither JonDos nor the JonDonym operators could see what he/she does in the JonDonym system. Moreover, a stability protection against connection manipulations has been developed: In some countries, especially those in the middle east, HTTPS/SSL connections get manipulat...

HKEx - Hong Kong stock exchange Hacked Trading in Hong Kong was disrupted on Wednesday by a hacking incident on the Hong Kong Exchange website. " Our current assessment that this is a result of a malicious attack by outside hacking ," Charlies Li, chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, told reporters. The seven stocks in question were all due to release sensitive results to the website that could impact the price of their stocks.Although the Hong Kong stock exchange also operates an alternative backup site for posting the results, it chose to halt trading of the affected stocks for the afternoon session.Stocks affected included HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong exchange itself.It is unclear at this point whether the attack actually compromised the site, or if it was merely a denial of service attack. " It was the first time for a suspension due to such a kind of technical problem and one involving so many companies ,...

Hungry Hackers website hacked by CyberMind One of the Famous Hacking Tips and Tricks site "Hungry Hackers" -  http://www.hungry-hackers.com/  for Beginners got Hacked and Defaced by  CyberMind . The Hack shows that " Hackers are also not safe " . Update : Same site was also hacked on 2011-07-29 by Group Hp-Hack - Dr.TaiGaR and NeT DeviLSaudi Arabia Hackers . Mirror of hack can be seen here