Hackers Get Personal Info From UCLA System
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The University of California, Los Angeles, reports one or more computer hackers have accessed a database containing the personal information of 800,000 people.  The school said the central campus database was accessed between October 2005 and Nov.
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.
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Hackers could bypass security warnings and download malicious content.
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BERKELEY, Calif.) - The personal information of more than a (m) million Californians may have fallen into the hands of a computer hacker.
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The FBI is trying to find whoever hacked into a computer at the University of California at Berkeley. The computer contained personal information -- including social security numbers -- of nearly 1.5 million
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Intruder gained access to database holding personal information for up to 600,000 elderly and disabled Californians.
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By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 6--An Ohio University consultant has recovered interview notes and other documents behind its investigation of hacker thefts of personal data from campus computers.
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(InfoWorld) - Computers belonging to the U.S. government, contractors, and companies in the transportation industry were hit by a targeted computer attack in July that yielded password information for hundreds of Internet and intranet Web sites, a computer security vendor said Tuesday. The malicious code behind the attacks was first detected by computer intrusion prevention vendor Prevx on July 5. In total, the criminals were able to cull 200MB ofÂ information from about 500 computers, including password and login data, Prevx said. All but one of the computers was located in the U.S., and many of the computers that were infected were associated with air transportation, according to Mel Morris, CEO of Prevx. "This was a well-coordinated attack by someone wanting to get information on the related sites." PCs at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), American Airlines, and DOT contractor Booz Allen Hamilton all were compromised, Morris said. If DOT systems were compromised, the department is unaware of the situation. "We haven't found any record of a problem," a DOT spokeswoman said Tuesday. Prevx obtained a sample of the Trojan used in the attacks on Friday of last week. By Saturday, it had tracked down a Web site, hosted by YahooÂ in Sunnyvale, California, where information from the compromised PCs was dropped. Because Prevx found a "massive amount" of job applications on the Web site used by the criminals, the company believes that victims may have downloaded the malicious software while thinking they were applying for a job. That Web site, which had probably been hacked by the criminals behind the scam, was shut down on Tuesday, Morris said. It hosted about 200MB of password information, and log-files on the server showed the IP addresses of the infected PCs. Victims of the Trojan, called Win32.PSWSteal.Gen , are told that their hard drive has been encrypted and that they will need to pay $300 to for a decryption tool. Morris believes this extortion threat is actually a ruse designed to conceal the attacker's true motivation: data gathering. "We think the ransomware is to point anyone investigating this down the wrong alley," he said. Morris said he is troubled that such a high percentage of the infected PCs are related to the transportation sector, which has been the target of terrorist attacks. "When we reverse-engineered the IP addresses of those computers, we couldn't believe that this was a daisy chain that led to government-associated sites and to other defense contractors, and to American Airlines," Morris said. "This was a very highly targeted attack." Criminals have increasingly turned to this type of targeted attack in order to collect and eventually sell data from corporations and government agencies, said Marcus Sachs, deputy director of research group SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. But while Prevx's list of compromised organizations is "kind of scary," it's still hard to characterize what was motivating the attack, Sachs said. "I wouldn't necessarily associate it with terrorists," he said.
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Debix, the Identity Protection Network, today announced that it will  offer Identity Protection Services for three years to the victims of the  UCLA security breach for $99. Details of the offer are available at http://www.debix.com/UCLA.
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A computer security researcher figures out exactly how a high-tech scammer
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Hackers penetrate the network of a consumer data company and make off with thousands of credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A hacker attack on the Internet failed this week - but experts warn there could be more to come. Three of the 13 computers that help direct all Internet traffic were hit with a flood of data requests Tuesday. Although it's not yet clear where the torrent came from, it was most likely designed to overwhelm the computers, says Peter Reiher, a professor at UCLA's engineering school.
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An unknown hacker has infiltrated a  massive University of California, Los Angeles database with  personal information on 800,000 people, the school said on  Tuesday, in one of the worst computer breaches ever at a U.S.  university.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school, officials said on Tuesday.
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By RANDY KENNER,  kenner@knews.com  The University of Tennessee mailed out letters Thursday to nearly 36,000 people whose personal information was on a UT computer accessed by a hacker for several months beginning last August.
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p2pnet.net News:- &quot;UC Berkeley officials issued a statement of regret about a computer hacking that may have exposed the names and social security numbers of about 600,000 people,&quot; says the Berkeley Daily Planet.
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.