Zeidy David writes: Last month we reported on the “hacktivist” group Anonymous calling for a “Day of Rage” for Sandra Bland. The series of actions were given the name #OpSandraBland, and they warned of a wide range of attacks and fronts for hitting the Waller County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of Sandra. Now, Anonymous has announced…
Category: U.S.
Is the Veterans Administration doing enough in mitigating breaches? One veteran says “No.” Here’s why.
Benjamin Krause, an investigative reporter, Veterans law attorney, and a disabled veteran of the US Air Force, has a site called DisabledVeterans.org. One of his posts showed up in one of my searches, and I thought it was worth noting here. In the context of discussing a recent VA breach and government accountability, Benjamin writes: I personally had…
REMEMBER EMAD Attacks DoD: Claim
Remember Emad, a hacking crew that claimed to have attacked Israeli sites in March 2012, and to have attacked an Israeli Webgate server in August 2012 and dumped data, has apparently claimed to have attacked the Pentagon. Seen on Cryptome, August 1: from : REMEMBER EMAD crew to : Pentagon subject : op910 we are responsible…
Network Solutions customer sites defaced
Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…
Orange County Employees Association victim of hack
The Orange County Employees Association in Santa Ana, California is notifying an undisclosed number of people that their personal information, and that of their dependents, may have been accessed by hackers. In a notification to the state, OCEA writes that the attack, which appears to have occurred as early as June 5, was detected on July…
Former DOD Contractor/Sysadmin Sentenced for Accessing and Removing Classified Information from Military Computers (updated)
Christopher R. Glenn, 34, a South Florida Resident, was sentenced on July 31, 2015, to 120 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra of the Southern District of Florida following his guilty plea for willful retention of classified national defense information under the…