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Throwing caution to the winds, “kiberphant0m” tries to extort AT&T with Trump and Harris call llogs

Posted on November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 by Dissent

While many of us were waking up to the election results yesterday, at least one person was busy trying to extort AT&T using the president-elect and current vice president’s call logs. In their post, “kiberphant0m” posted this demand concerning AT&T call logs: TRUMP & Vice President of the United States CALL LOGS — OFFICIAL WARNING…

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City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida affected 500,000 residents

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Dissent

There’s an update to an incident affecting the City of Columbus, Ohio. That’s the one where a judge prohibited David L. Ross from talking to the media about it after the city sought to silence him after he began publicly refuting the city’s false or inaccurate claims about the breach. The city subsequently settled its…

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No: Administrative fine issued to Grue municipality under GDPR

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Dissent

The Norwegian data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has imposed an administrative fine of NOK 250,000 [USD $22,669.69] on Grue municipality for breach of GDPR requirements. They explain: Personal data that should have been confidential was made available to unauthorised persons in the municipality’s public records. This constitutes a breach of the municipality’s duty to ensure adequate…

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Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Dissent

Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during local elections in September, targeting infrastructure in the capital and the Moscow region. According to the agency’s press service, the…

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Fr: Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Dissent

Iain Thomson reports: The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava. An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) have been openly displaying…

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Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds

Posted on October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 by Dissent

Harvey Cashore, Daniel Leblanc report: At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canada. Imposters used the company’s confidential credentials to get unauthorized access into hundreds of Canadians’ personal CRA accounts, change…

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