Thought it would be bigger

http://news.softpedia.com/news/hacker-puts-up-for-sale-9-3-million-records-from-healthcare-insurance-company-505724.shtml

Anthem Health Care Breach

I guess we will never really know how sophisticated the attack was, but my guess is it was not very complex. Someone probably got phished, and from their the attacker could move around in the network to find the interesting data.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/data-breach-at-health-insurer-anthem-could-impact-millions/

Texas Transportation Site Leaves Credit Cards at Risk

Texas Transportation Site Leaves Credit Cards at Risk

For the win......
"TxTag.org inexplicably stores the entire credit card details including Credit Card Numbers and expiration date, which meant to be partial visible to users, but available in the plaintext as the value of input field on the page source code."

Learning articles for the month

So here is the October round of articles and tutorials to check out for the next month. Again, these are just the ones that peak my interest, so by all means please go to the original site and look through all of the great articles they have.

Strategies for Monitoring Failover Clusters
Advanced Group Policy Management (Part 4)
Single Item Recovery (Part 2)
Deploying Lync Server 2010 (Part 3)
Monitoring Exchange 2007 / 2010 with Powershell (Part 3
Enabling Forms-based Authentication for OWA published using Forefront TMG 2010 (Part 3)
Configuring Web Proxy Automatic Discovery in Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
Windows Security Tools
Eight Things You Can Do Today to Improve Security on Your Microsoft Network
Data Leakage Prevention
Troubleshooting Event Log Entries
Back to basics
Getting Started with ESXi 5

need to update once again.............

This is just a quick reminder to everyone in the wide internet world, that the recent CA getting hacked has resulted in over 500 invalid certificates being issued for very popular websites. Updates for various products are being released today and in the past few days, please make sure to update your OS, your browser, and any other application that can go on the internet.

TOR announcement of compromised certificates
This is the complete list of domains compromised.

New Data Exposure: Yale University

was open and online for 10 months and available via Google. Awesome!

Link to Yale Daily News