David Fisher reports: Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager may face criminal charges over accepting the hacked material used to write the bombshell book, according to documents obtained by the Herald. Police will not say whether the investigative journalist is again a suspect, instead of simply a witness, after a pivotal Supreme Court decision which ruled computer files…
Category: Hack
Breaches, traders, plain text passwords, ethical disclosure and 000webhost
Troy Hunt writes: It’s a bit hard to even know where to begin with this one, perhaps at the start and then I’ll try and piece all the bits together as best I can. As you may already know if you’re familiar with this blog, I run the service Have I been pwned? (HIBP) which…
Did China Just Hack the International Court Adjudicating Its South China Sea Territorial Claims?
Jason Healey and Anni Piiparinen report: Attribution for cyberattacks is said to be notoriously difficult, but sometimes context and timing are damning evidence. In July, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague conducted a hearing on the territorial dispute in the South China Sea between the Philippines and China. On the third day of…
CIA head ‘outraged,’ ‘dismayed’ by email hack
Julian Hattem reports that CIA Director is outraged over the hack of his personal AOL account, but also upset about how the media portrayed things. Since this blog was one of many who raised the question as to whether he was improperly storing data that should not have been in his personal account, I thought…
Dark Side: The rise and fall of a suburban hacker
Matt Hrodey had an interesting piece on Daniel Placek of Darkode infamy. It begins: Daniel Placek was just old enough to buy a beer when the FBI knocked on the door to his parents’ house in Bayside, where he was living, and seized his computer. Placek, a 21-year-old self-taught computer programmer, confessed most everything to the…
KS: USD 259 investigating computer hacking attempt
John Boyd reports that not much is known yet about a hacking attempt at USD 259: The Wichita Public School District is investigating a hacking attempt. USD 259 Superintendent John Allison said Monday morning that they do not know the extent of the attempt, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it involves student…