Kyle Odegard reports: A computer hacker apparently stole $250,000 from International Grand Investment Corporation, the parent company of Cascade Pacific Pulp in Halsey, according to police logs. Read more on Albany Democrat-Herald.
Category: Hack
Hacker told F.B.I. he made plane fly sideways after cracking entertainment system
Jorge Barrera reports: A well-known U.S. hacker told F.B.I. agents he took momentary control of an airplane’s engines mid-flight by hacking into its in-flight entertainment system, according to a document filed in U.S. federal court and obtained by APTN National News. [Chris] Roberts, who has been interviewed at least three times by the F.B.I. this year,…
Penn State College of Engineering hacked; China suspected in at least one attack (updated)
University alerted by FBI in November 2014 18,000 whose SSN were on server being notified First attack may have occurred in September 2012 NBC reports: The engineering school at Penn State was the target of two sophisticated hacking attacks, one of which cybersecurity experts say originated in China, the university announced on Friday. While the university…
Naikon Hackers Take Aim At Asia-Pacific Nations, Warns Kaspersky
Tom Jowitt reports: Security specialists Kaspersky Lab has warned of an active hacker collective that goes by the name of Naikon and is targeting a number of countries in the South China Sea area. The group has apparently infiltrated a number of government, civil and military organisations in countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam,…
Hackers attack Bundestag data
The Local reports: A Bundestag (German parliament) official on Friday confirmed media reports about a hacking attack on the institution. “There has been an attack on the IT systems of the Bundestag,” spokesman Ernst Habeker said in Berlin. Experts from the Bundestag administration and the Government Office for Information Technology Security (BSI) are working to…
How the Washington Post was hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (again)
Graham Cluley reports: The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have successfully scalped another high profile media outlet, briefly hijacking the mobile version of the Washington Post website to display pop-up messages claiming that the media is not telling the truth. […] In this latest incident, as Motherboard reports, the hackers claim that they broke into systems belonging to Instart…