Sometimes, I’d really love to know why. Caitlin Mota reports: Apparently, someone really doesn’t like Harrison. Since the West Hudson town’s website was initially hacked on July 7, Harrison’s website has been infiltrated seven more times in the past two weeks, officials said. “These are highly intelligent criminals who seek to cause havoc and destruction in the…
Category: Government Sector
Postal employee charged with theft of thousands of credit cards
And then sometimes, it’s still just low-tech old-fashioned theft: A former U.S. Postal Service employee appeared in federal court earlier this month after agreeing to plead guilty to stealing and selling thousands of credit cards from the mail, the Justice Department said. The 48-year-old California man, who had worked for USPS for more than 20…
Wikileaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason
Zeynep Tufekci writes: Just days after a bloody coup attempt shook Turkey, Wikileaks dumped some 300,000 emails they chose to call “Erdogan emails.” In response, Turkey’s internet governance body swiftly blocked access to Wikileaks. For many, blocking Wikileaks was confirmation that the emails were damaging to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the government, revealing…
Hackers target Hunting & Fishing NZ
NewsHub reports: The Hunting & Fishing New Zealand website has been hacked, with the company urging recent customers to check their bank transactions for suspicious activity. Visitors to the site now see a statement from the outdoor recreation company, saying it’s taken down its website “until further notice”. Read more on NewsHub.
Illinois online voter registration portal hacked, information compromised
The state board of elections is reviewing just to what extent a hacker breached its online voter registration system. Illinois State Board of Elections General Counsel Ken Menzel said something flagged a breach in the online voter registration portal on July 12. He said the compromised information could be wide-ranging. “It would be a name…
UK: NHS apologises for sending vital patient information to WRONG GPs for five years
Patrick Christys reports: The NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) should have redirected test results and treatment advice which was sent to the wrong family doctors across swathed of Britain, but it failed to do so. The Government refused to say how many patients were affected by the gaffe, which ran from 2011 until earlier this…