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Broad New Hacking Attack Detected

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Dissent

Siobhan Gorman reports: Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach. The damage from the latest cyberattack…

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Massive security breach suspected at Latvian tax office

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Dissent

The State Revenue Service (VID) in Latvia admitted Monday that its electronic security systems may have been breached and that millions of confidential documents could have been hacked. The Latvian television news programme De Facto said Sunday night that 120 gigabytes of data consisting of 7.4 million individual documents had been leaked from VID’s database…

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Galeton web site with customer credit card data hacked

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Dissent

Gloves, Inc. d/b/a Galeton, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 8 that its web site had been the victim of what appeared to be a “brute force attack.” The hackers reportedly were potentially able to access customer information including name, address, credit card number and expiration date. Although the total number of…

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(follow-up) Max Ray Vision sentenced to 13 years, $27.5 million restitution

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Dissent

Joe Mandak of the Associated Press reports that Max Ray Vision, who had more than 1.8 million stolen bank and credit card numbers on computers at his California apartment when he was arrested in 2007, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $27.5 million in restitution. Previous coverage of…

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FL: District investigates computer security breach

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports: The Broward County School District in South Florida is investigating whether students at several schools were able to change grades by hacking into computers. The district said Thursday it had found “several security breaches” with school computer systems. A district spokeswoman told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel officials aren’t sure how many…

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Information Technology planning a revision to current security system

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

The student newspaper at Valdosta State University in Georgia has an article on how the university will be revising their IT security as a result of an audit last year. The story contains reference to a breach the university experienced last year that does not seem to have been reported in the media or the…

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