Milton J. Valencia reports that recidivist hacker Cameron Lacroix (aka “cam0,” “Freak,” and “leetjones”) was sentenced to four years in prison for a variety of hacking crimes that included accessing the computer accounts of three professors at Bristol Community College in New Bedford and changing grades for himself and two friends hacking into a local police chief’s…
Category: Government Sector
Attacks on cities’ systems reported
Fox10 in Phoenix reports that the City of Phoenix’s internet system was under attack by hackers over the weekend. And the email system for the city of Mobile, Alabama was under heavy attack last week by hackers who used the system to send out spam. No personal information was reportedly compromised in either of the attacks,…
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters
Michael Isikoff reports: The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called “second leaker” who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list to a journalist closely associated with ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, according to law enforcement and intelligence sources who have been briefed on the…
ME: Former employees sue Washington County sheriff over release of personnel information
Bill Trotter and Judy Harrison report: Seventeen ex-employees of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office have sued Sheriff Donnie Smith over the collection and release of their personnel information as part of Smith’s unsuccessful effort to contest the ballot eligibility of two political opponents earlier this year. […] The complaint, filed Monday in Washington County Superior Court,…
S. Sudan says it will not expel Chinese company officials
Sudan Tribune reports: South Sudan has vowed not to expel any member of Huawei, a Chinese technological company it accused of allegedly forging documents on behalf of its information minister. This comes a day after the country’s authorities ordered an investigation into allegations that Huawei had hacked its systems. Read more on Sudan Tribune.
Update: Former IRS employee sentenced
There’s an update to a case previously noted here concerning a rogue Mark Morris of the Kansas City Star reports that Taylor S. Knight has been sentenced to two years in prison and $5,000 in restitution for her role in an id theft scheme. Knight pleaded guilty in July.