Nate Raymond and Nathan Layne report: A Florida man pleaded guilty in a case stemming from an attempted hacking of the Clinton Foundation on Thursday, months after he was sentenced to 42 years in prison in the wake of child pornography discovered on his computers during the probe. Timothy Sedlak, 43, pleaded guilty in federal…
Month: February 2017
Police Have Arrested a Suspect in a Massive ‘Internet of Things’ Attack
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: European police suspect a 29-year-old man of keeping one million people offline. They might have found the person behind the notorious hacker known as BestBuy. At the end of last year, hackers took over hundreds of thousands of home routers using a variant of the infamous Internet of Things malware known as Mirai. Then they rented out…
UK: London house raided as part of illegal data trading probe
A search warrant was executed today at a property in London as part of an investigation into the illegal access of customer details from a nationwide car repair company. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which carried out the search, believes people’s information was unlawfully traded and could be linked to some of them receiving nuisance…
Someone Is Selling Coachella User Accounts on the Dark Web
Joseph Cox reports: A data trader claims to be selling over 950,000 user accounts for the website of popular music festival Coachella. The data includes email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords. “Coachella complete database dump from this month,” the vendor, who uses the handle Berkut, writes in their listing on the Tochka dark web marketplace….
After data breach, FCPS passes new policy to handle stolen information
Kate Masters reports: After a major student data breach, Frederick County Public Schools now has a clear response policy for future security lapses. The policy — which the Board of Education passed unanimously Wednesday — provides a multi-step plan for school administrators if FCPS data is stolen or leaked. […] The plan sets clear expectations…
Opening Appellate Brief filed in U.S. v. Thomas
Tor Ekeland writes: U.S v Michael Thomas, No. 16-41264 (5th Cir.) Last night in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals we filed the Opening Appellant Brief in U.S. v. Michael Thomas. In June of 2016, in an important CFAA case regarding the definition of unauthorized damage, a jury convicted Michael Thomas of a single count felony violation for causing damage…