Melissa Major reports: A computer hacker who brought down the Labour general election candidate’s website and tapped into a school network has been given a suspended sentence. Bradley Kai Hayden Niblock, 22, was caught after the Cyber and Digital Crime Unit followed a pattern of online offending last year. Niblock, of Hawcoat Lane, Barrow, admitted…
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UK: Top secret military documents found ‘in soggy heap’ at bus stop
Emma Brazell reports: Top secret Ministry of Defence documents have been found in a ‘soggy heap’ at a bus stop in Kent. Fifty pages of documents reveal details about HMS Defender and the British military. They allegedly show officials had predicted Russia may respond ‘aggressively’ to the ship’s passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast, but…
Bits ‘n Pieces, Part 2: Some Non-U.S. Incidents (updated)
The Czech Republic Institut plánování a rozvoje hl. m. Prahy (IPR) (the Institute of Planning and Development of the Capital The City of Prague (IPR) reported (machine translation) that it had been infected with a crypto miner virus which used the computing capacity of the institute for crypto currency mining. For preventive reasons, it was necessary to…
UK: Sepa recovery from ransomware attack could take years
BBC reports: Scotland’s environmental watchdog has said it could take years to fully recover from a cyber attack. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) had more than 4,000 digital files stolen by hackers on Christmas Eve. Chief executive Terry A’Hearn revealed it is now building a new IT system from scratch. Sepa said it had backup…
Westfield clerk, mayor battle over spyware installed on city hall computers
Richard Essex reports: Spyware was found on all of the computers in the Westfield clerk treasurer’s office, and now she and the mayor are battling in court about it. This particular software allows remote access to all the data stored in that office, which includes information for a dozen city bank accounts, and personal information…
City of Liege, Belgium hit by ransomware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Liege, the third biggest city in Belgium, has suffered today a ransomware attack that has disrupted the municipality’s IT network and online services. Following the attack, most of the city’s civil status and population services are down, Liege officials said on a status page today. Read more on The Record.