Incident response is so important, and Morrison’s did not do a good job, as I’ve commented before. Now Tom Reeve reports: Nearly 6000 current and former staff of retail giant Morrisons have signed up to join a combined lawsuit against the company following a massive data breach two years ago. According to the law firm…
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US attorney Bharara set free hacker who led attacks on Turkish gov’t
Ragip Soylu and Yunus Paksoy report: U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, who has been at the top of the agenda recently in Turkey due to his arrest of Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, had prepared an indictment and set free an FBI informant who orchestrated cyberattacks on the Turkish government. Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as Sabu, was a…
Russian hacker group targetting largest EU banks
SC Magazine reports: The Russian government has begun working with Russia’s Central Bank to develop a package of measures aimed at fighting Buhtrap, the recently discovered hacker group, which, to date, has stolen around RUB 4 billion (£42 million) from Russian and Western banks, and is reportedly planning further attacks on the EU banking system….
New defense in Russian’s hacking case requests another delay to go through piles of evidence
Rick Anderson has an update on the prosecution of accused Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, and you’ll want to read it. Oh, the defense needing more time to prepare is not particularly exciting, however expected, but it’s all the other details about the case in Anderson’s report that you’ll want to read. Here’s a snippet: Seleznev, who Russian…
Anonymous Hack Italian Job Portals, Leak Trove of Data
Waqas reports that Anonymous Italy – LulzSec ITA has hacked into the websites of Italian job portals and employment agencies leaking personal data of hundreds and thousands of employees and business owners for operation OpNessunDorma to protest against the new labour laws in the country. Hackread, who claims they verified that the data were a new leak, report: The data includes full names, emails,…
Cyber Justice Team Makes A Statement With Massive Data Leak
I knew if I was patient, Lee J. would analyze the data from this data dump and organize it. Today, RBS reported: On April 6th, a twitter account using the name Cyber Justice Team posted a tweet suggesting a major hack of a Syrian governmental server had taken place and 10GB of data had been leaked as…