The “Bitcoin Baron” has demanded the city Moore in Oklahoma send 100 bitcoins to protect data that Bitcoin Baron claims to have acquired. The hacker informs DataBreaches.net: Hacked into the systems of City of Moore and planted a virus inside their system and obtained files that is quite interesting if I might say and I…
Category: Government Sector
PWC firm employee involved in document leak: CBI
From India’s Central Bureau of Investigation: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Under Secretary in Department of Disinvestment & Section Officer in Department of Economic Affairs both of Union Ministry of Finance and a Consultant / Chartered Accountant (private person) based at Mumbai in a case relating to alleged leakage and supply of…
US hacking accused Lauri Love ‘had stolen government data’
BBC reports: A British man accused of hacking into US government software networks had a computer that appeared to have “stolen” information on it, a court heard. Lauri Love, 30, of Suffolk, who faces no charges in the UK, is seeking the return of machines seized by police. But, at Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court,…
Jury rules in favor of Sonoma County employee in privacy case
This is a follow-up to a case noted previously on this blog. Paul Payne reports: Jurors on Thursday found a Santa Rosa man was not entitled to monetary damages from a neighbor he claimed used her position as a Sonoma County social worker to pry into his confidential files and embarrass him. The panel deliberated about a day…
For 3 months Hillary Clinton’s email access was unencrypted, vulnerable to spies
I’ve studiously avoided reporting on this when the purpose was solely political, but there is a security point to be made. Robert Hackett reports: Security firm Venafi has found that Clinton’s email server may have been open to foreign intelligence snoops when traveling abroad. On Tuesday, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her…
UK: Mass Surveillance: Intelligence Staff Sacked
Sky News reports: A number of British intelligence staff have been sacked for inappropriately accessing personal information, it has emerged. […] When asked by Sky News for further details about why intelligence staff were sacked, the committee’s spokeswoman MP Hazel Blears replied: “I think we say in the report that these incidents have been extremely rare….