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Yahoo hack: Yahoo said its employees knew about the hack in 2014

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Dissent

ITPro reports: In a securities filing on Wednesday, Yahoo said some of its employees knew that a “state-sponsored actor” had broken into its network two years ago. This was the attack that led to theft of data such as names, dates of birth and passwords associated with more than 500 (sic) accounts. It’s considered to be one…

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Update: Tesco Bank refunds £2.5 million to customers after weekend’s security breach

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Dissent

Anthony Spadafora reports: Tesco Bank has released more details regarding the cyber attack that took control of its online accounts and led the bank to freeze all of its users online transactions. Over the weekend the bank was hit by an attack that it initially thought affected 20,000 customers. However, Tesco Bank has now revealed that…

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Hacker Claims to Take Down Russian Bank Websites on Election Day

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports: Just as Americans are lining up to vote, one DDoS-for-hire service has already claimed responsibility for several brief attacks against Russian targets, apparently in response to the country’s alleged interference throughout the US election. On Tuesday, a hacker calling himself vimproducts showed Motherboard a selection of Russian banking and other financial websites, before claiming…

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Seven Indian missions’ websites ‘hacked’, data dumped online: Report

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Dissent

IANS reports: Two hackers allegedly from the Netherlands claimed to have broken into seven Indian High Commission websites, publishing online the login details, passwords and database containing names, passport numbers, email-IDs and phone numbers of people of Indian origin, media reported on Monday. According to a report in E Hacking News website, the Indian High…

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Hackers hit Scotland Yard’s site after arrests at Million Mask March

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Dissent

John Simpson reports: Hackers claim to have shut down part of Scotland Yard’s website for eight hours in revenge for dozens of arrests during an anti-capitalist march that ended in violence in central London. The Met’s news website was forced offline while thousands of protesters, many wearing Guy Fawkes masks, marked the fifth of November…

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Would your Twitter team recognize when they’re being informed of a hack?

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Dissent

It sounds like such a simple question that should have an obvious “yes” answer, but you might be surprised to see what happens when hackers taunt social media teams about hacks. It’s an issue I’ve mentioned before: NullCrew revealed that they had access to Bell’s server for months, and had disclosed that to them in a…

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