CNA reports: The computer on the desk of Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s secretary was hacked recently and investigators have traced the perpetrator to China, a Taipei city government official said Tuesday. Lee Wei-bin, the city’s information technology commissioner, told the City Council that a hacker installed a Trojan malware program into the secretary’s computer in…
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FireEye claims discovery of 10-year hack campaign by China
Aimee Chanthadavong reports: A decade-long cyber espionage operation focused on stealing sensitive information for the Chinese government is claimed to have been uncovered by security firm FireEye. The FireEye intelligence report (PDF), APT30 and the Mechanics of a Long-Running Cyber Espionage Operation, has revealed that the group, dubbed APT30, has been maintaining an advanced persistent threat…
Former Local 17 Business Agent Pleads Guilty To Misusing NYS DMV Database
Jeffrey A. Peterson, 51, of Freedom, NY, has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYS DMV) database. The plea was announced Thursday by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison…
Hacker gets 10 years in jail for spying on Colombia peace process
I’m always reluctant to rely on Fox News for anything, but they seem to have the only English-language news coverage of this development: A Colombian court sentenced hacker Andres Sepulveda to 10 years in prison after he admitted to various crimes, including spying on the government’s peace talks with the FARC, and accepted the prosecution’s…
Ca: Quebec Anonymous takes credit for hacking Montreal police website
Kate McKenna reports: The Quebec branch of the online hacker collective Anonymous is taking credit for infiltrating the websites of the Montreal police and the union representing its officers. Op Fry The SPVM | Target: DOWN | Montreal Fraternal Order Of Police – http://t.co/S2fH2vb0hF | #Anonymous#FuckSPVM pic.twitter.com/ctgBRRicNC — Anonymous Quebec (@QuebecAnon) April 11, 2015 Around 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, the Montreal…
More police departments acknowledge paying ransom to unlock their systems
And yet more police departments pay ransom to unlock their systems. WCSH in Maine reports: Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett said four towns and the county have a special computer network to share files and records. Someone accidentally downloaded a virus, called “megacode”, that put an encryption code on all the computer data. The Sheriff…