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5 Biggest Hosting Companies hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

Swati Khandelwal reports: Once again, Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has gain media attention by compromising a number of popular web hosting brands of one of the leading web-hosting companies Endurance International Group INC that manages over 60 different hosting brands. SEA, a pro-hacker group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is famous for hacking…

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Let’s send an unencrypted thumb drive via mail. What can possibly go wrong, right?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

No, Human Resource Advantage. You do not get to put an unencrypted thumb drive with employee records in the regular mail to TrustHCS and then claim you take the security of personal information in your control “very seriously.” From your own investigation, that drive contained names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, bank account information, postal…

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GA: Identity thieves strike United Way

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

Aimee Jones reports: Doris Strickland, director of the Newton County United Way, contacted the Sheriff’s Office Friday to report that the computer she uses at the United Way office for business was hacked through her email. She reported that she changed all her passwords, but discovered nearly $1,400 had been charged at several restaurants on…

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Former federal agents in Silk Road investigation charged with bitcoin money laundering and wire fraud

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

Two former federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of the Silk Road, an underground black market that allowed users to conduct illegal transactions over the Internet.  The charges are contained in a federal criminal complaint issued on March 25, 2015, in…

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NY: Colonial Car Wash credit breaches investigated

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

Keshia Clukey reports:  Rotterdam police Sunday warned the public about several debit and credit card breaches that occurred at the Colonial Car Wash starting in early March. Police were contacted by managers from M&T Bank, First Niagara and Price Chopper Federal Credit Union that there were several victims who had fraudulent activity on their accounts after using their cards at…

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Man who attempted to socially engineer sheriff’s department sentenced under Alabama’s Digital Crime Act

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Dissent

From a press release of March 18: Attorney General Luther Strange announced the conviction of a Georgia man for a felony related to attempts to access confidential information systems maintained by the State of Alabama.  On Monday, Thomas Jack Hixon, 20, of Chickamauga, Georgia pleaded guilty in Calhoun County Circuit Court to Attempted Computer Tampering,…

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