RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty reports: A Moscow court has sentenced two Russian hackers to three years in prison each for breaking into the e-mail accounts of top Russian officials and leaking them. Konstantin Teplyakov and Aleksandr Filinov were members of the Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty in Russian) collective believed to be behind the hacking of high-profile accounts, including…
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No charges in probe into leaked info to Thug Life website
AP reports from Charleston: An investigation into a website that leaked the name of a juvenile charged in a killing along with other confidential police information has ended without any charges filed, according to the State Law Enforcement Division. The probe into the Thug Life website that criticized criminals and prosecutors who the site thought…
Alaska malware incident may have compromised personal info held by Office of Children’s Services
And yet another breach disclosed at the beginning of a holiday weekend – this one posted by the State of Alaska: September 1, 2017 ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services had a security breach that may have disclosed personal information of individuals who have interacted with the Office of Children’s Services….
AU: Medicare data breach: government response ‘contemptible’, says former AFP officer
Melissa Davey reports: The federal government’s response to a Medicare data breach that led to patient details being sold on the dark web was “disappointing, confusing and often contemptible,” according to a former detective who headed the Australian federal police’s investigations into high-tech crime. Nigel Phair, now an adjunct professor at the University of Canberra’s…
Mystery surrounds malware attack that forced German state parliament offline
Graham Cluley reports: According to media reports, a malware attack has managed to disrupt the operations of parliamentary business in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. The problem at the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag appears to have started after a state parliament employee opened a malicious email attachment on Wednesday that proceeded to infect their PC. The…
GAO to agencies: Stop using Social Security numbers for everything
There really is such as a thing as “obvious.” Isn’t there? Adam Stone reports: Federal agencies continue to over-collect, over-use and over-display Social Security numbers, leading to the an unnecessarily high risk of identity theft. That’s the latest from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In a recent report GAO declares that a decade’s worth of…