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Law Enforcement Websites Hit by Blueleaks May Have Been Easy to Hack

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Dissent

Micah Lee reports: Whoever broke into 251 law enforcement websites and obtained the blueleaks trove of documents appears to have reused decades-old software for opening “backdoors” in web servers. The use of the widely available backdoors provides evidence that the hacktivist who compromised the sensitive sites, including fusion centers linked to federal agencies, didn’t need to use sophisticated…

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NSW Police Leak Private Information of Complainants

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Dissent

Criminal Defence Lawyers Australia writes: The NSW Police have leaked the emails of over 150 complainants who contacted them in order to raise concerns regarding officer’s use of force following the Sydney Black Lives Matter protest on Saturday, 6 June. […] It contained the original letter, with an additional page which contained text beginning “Please…

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Town of Hollywood Park attempting to recover nearly $200,000 stolen in 2019 cyber theft

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Dissent

KSAT reports: On March 5, 2019 someone attempted to steal nearly half a million dollars from the sleepy San Antonio suburb of Hollywood Park. The thieves were likely international cyber-criminals, but 17-months later, no one has been arrested for the crime. With the help of the United States Secret Service, the town managed to recover…

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Germany’s military-run transport fleet hacked

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Dissent

DW reports: Germany’s Bundestag administration and federal parliamentarians were told Friday that unknown hackers had infiltrated the FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet, reported the Sunday newspaper BamS (Bild am Sonntag). “Last week, there was an attack on the company’s IT network by an as yet unidentified external party,” Germany’s defense ministry added on Saturday. Read more on…

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Thousands of CRA accounts breached following pair of cyberattacks

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dissent

CBC News reports: The federal government has revealed that the Canada Revenue Agency was recently hit by two cyberattacks, compromising thousands of accounts linked to the agency’s services. The agency confirmed on Saturday that as of Aug. 14, about 5,500 accounts had been affected by the separate attacks but that the breaches are now contained. The CRA’s My…

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Aarogya Setu vulnerable? Drama over data firm’s contention

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dissent

Binayak Dasgupta reports: A cyber security firm said on Wednesday that it stumbled upon large parts of the government’s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu’s code and back-end components that could jeopardise the privacy of 150 million users after a government website appeared to have inadvertently uploaded log-in credentials used by the developers, triggering a war of words…

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