DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, DC 20511 October 07, 2016 Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US…
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Man arrested for streaming porn to electronic billboard
AP reports on this story out of Indonesia: Indonesian police say a man they arrested for broadcasting pornography on an electronic billboard in the country’s capital gained access to the system after it displayed its log-on credentials. Jakarta Police Chief Muhammad Iriawan said Wednesday that the suspect, 24-year-old Samudera Al Hakam Ralial, admits he hacked…
TalkTalk gets record £400,000 fine for failing to prevent October 2015 attack
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement about what is a record fine for them: Telecoms company TalkTalk has been issued with a record £400,000 fine by the ICO for security failings that allowed a cyber attacker to access customer data “with ease”. The ICO’s in-depth investigation found that an attack on the company last October could have been…
Leet.cc data hacked in February publicly dumped
In August, LeakedSoure informed Softpedia that it had received the full database and source of Leet.cc, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket Edition servers. According to Softpedia at the time, there were over 6 million users’ records, consisting of username, hashed password, registration date, last login date, and user ID. “For the vast majority of users,…
TN: Hutton Hotel notifying guests of breach that began in 2012
Hutton Hotel in Nashville is notifying guests of a that first began on September 23, 2012. In their notification, they write that after being alerted to a potential problem by their payment processor, their outside consultants determined that unknown individuals had been able to install a program on the payment processing system in September 2012. The program could have…
UK: Five men sentenced over insider breach helping corporate rival
From Thames Valley Police: Five men have been sentenced today (30/9) following an investigation by Thames Valley Police and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU). The men were originally arrested by Thames Valley Police in March last year, in an operation with the support of SEROCU. The investigation was then passed onto SEROCU’s…