11 students expelled for keylogging school computers.

 

11 students from Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, Southern California have been expelled for keylogging teacher’s computers.

The students allegedly worked with a private tutor Timothy Lai where they learned how to hack into the schools computers by using keylogger devices to spy on their teacher’s computers. The students later used the information gathered to gain access to the network and make changes to their grades.

In December a science teacher who had concerns that her computer had been tampered with raised an alarm. Investigation into this scandal is focusing on the past 12 month and over 52,000 grades being

DDoS takes down US courts

Friday afternoon the Federal court system was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The attack took down PACER.gov the site for accessing the electronic court filing database and uscourts.gov along with several other websites.

 No one has come out to claim responsibility for the attack, but an email obtained by POLITICO from a Federal court clerk says "new national cyberattack on the judiciary,".  A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts stated that it was a denial-of-service attack, and they were still investigating the attack and who was responsible.

Hackers compromise 110M Target customer's information.

Back in December Target notified it's customers that they had been hacked, and that they believed that nearly 40M people have had their information compromised. I was one of those customers that received an email from Target. Up until then I had heard of the breach but didn't give it to much thought.

On Friday Target notified they're customers via email that an additional 70M people had been compromised raising the total people affected to 110M. I was one of those customers that received an email from Target. My wife having been a victim of identity theft I am very aware of how much work it takes to clear your credit history so I took this threat very serious. I called Target and had them issue myself and my wife new credit cards. Target offered people affected by the breach one year of free credit monitoring.

Identity theft is a real threat to all of us and should be taken as such. Anyone compromised should go to creditmonitoring.target.com and register before April 23, 2014. Activation codes must be redeemed by April 30, 2014.

Farwell McAfee Security?

 
The name McAfee that has been synonymous with antivirus security for over 25 years will be coming to an end. Earlier this week Intel CEO Brian Krzanich at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas announced that in the coming month the McAfee Security brand of antivirus software will be re-branded to Intel Security.

Intel plans to keep the shield logo while the software will remain relatively unchanged. The re-branding should be complete within the year.