Benjamin Earnest Nichols, 37, of Oklahoma City, appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan and pleaded guilty to an Information charging one count of knowingly causing the transmission of a program or code to a protected computer, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Nichols, who is on bond, faces…
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Judge Approves Settlement In Sony Pictures Hacking Case
AP reports: A judge on Wednesday approved a multi-million dollar settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose private information was stolen in a massive data breach. […] . Gary Klausner approved the agreement that gives roughly 437,000 people impacted by the breach identity theft protection from the time of…
Mossack Fonseca: we were hacked
On April 4, the Panamanian law firm at the center of a huge scandal issued a statement saying, among other things, that the media has misrepresented what they do, that everything they do is perfectly aboveboard, and they regret – but are not responsible for – any clients who may have misused their services despite their due…
University of Liverpool database of 6,500 staff posted on dark Web forum
John E. Dunn reports: Israeli researchers have discovered the contact details for everyone working and teaching at the University of Liverpool circulating on a dark Web forum where it is being promoted to launch targeted phishing attacks. Read more on ComputerworldUK. For many universities, such contact details are considered public domain and/or are freely available on…
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available…
This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free.
Michael S. Rosenwald reports: Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Elbakyan has kept herself beyond the reach of a federal judge who late last year…