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AU: Anonymous member charged over revenge hacking of Australian intelligence websites

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Dissent

Dan Oakes reports: A Melbourne man, allegedly part of the Anonymous online collective, has been charged over the revenge hacking of Australian intelligence agency websites. Mathew John Hutchison faced Melbourne Magistrates Court this week, accused of urging Indonesian hackers to attack the websites of ASIO, the Australian Signals Directorate and Australia’s overseas spy agency, ASIS….

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No sign of data breach after Centcom laptops stolen, U.S. Attorney says

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Dissent

Howard Altman reports: The U.S. Attorney’s Office says that there are no signs of a data breach caused by the theft of five laptop computers from U.S. Central Command sometime in April 2013. “There is no indication of a data breach at this point,” said spokesman William Daniels. “As cases proceed, we always remain open…

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IL: Midlothian cops pay ransom to retrieve data from hacker

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Dissent

Gregory Pratt reports: A south suburban police department paid a $500 ransom to an unidentified hacker to regain access to data from a police computer the hacker managed to disable, records show. Midlothian in January was hit with a form of computer virus called Cryptoware, said Calvin Harden Jr., an IT vendor who works with…

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Ca: Cyberattack at NRC occurred weeks before alert sent out

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Dissent

Susan Lunn reports: The federal government was aware a hacker had stolen secret information from the National Research Council last summer for at least three weeks before it notified stakeholders, employees and the public. That warning went out on July 29, 2014, a day after news of the hacking incident first broke in the news media….

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Ca: Service NL says employee inappropriately accessed records

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Dissent

CBC News reports: Service NL announced Friday it is investigating an inappropriate access of personal information by an employee with the department. In January, Motor Registration Division was alerted that an individual’s personal information may have been inappropriately accessed by an employee. Service NL later determined that an employee of the department had accessed the individual’s…

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Three Months Later, State Department Hasn’t Rooted Out Hackers

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Dissent

Danny Yadron reports: Three months after the State Department confirmed hackers breached its unclassified email system, the government still hasn’t been able to evict them from the department’s network, according to three people familiar with the investigation. Government officials, assisted by outside contractors and the National Security Agency, have repeatedly scanned the network and taken…

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