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Computer Hacker Fugitive Extradited for Cybercrimes Relating to VOIP Telephone Services

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Dissent

A Venezuelan citizen arrested in Mexico last February on hacking and wire fraud charges has been extradited and is expected to appear in court today in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, announced. Edwin Pena, 26, is scheduled to appear today at 2 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Claire C. Cecchi for an initial…

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PayChoice Suffers Another Data Breach

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Payroll services provider PayChoice took its Web-based service offline for the second time in a month on Wednesday in response to yet another data breach caused by hackers. Moorestown, N.J. based PayChoice, provides direct payroll processing services and licenses its online employee payroll management product to at least 240 other payroll processing…

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Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker Attack

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Dissent

Kim Zetter reports: Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned. Internal documents reveal for the first time that…

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Expert provides more proof hackers hijacked Hotmail accounts

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Dissent

Gregg Keizer reports: It’s almost certain that hackers obtained the Hotmail passwords that leaked to the Internet through a botnet-based attack, a researcher said today as she provided more proof that Microsoft’s explanation was probably off-base. “When I look at the infamous list of 10,000 Hotmail accounts, it just does not appear to be cataloged…

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Cyberthieves find workplace networks are easy pickings

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Dissent

Byron Acohido provides a write-up of some of the TJX and Heartland Payment Systems incidents that emphasizes the point that many hacks go undetected or unnoticed — and that cyberthieves often take considerable time to start and continue stealing data: Companies, understandably, rarely discuss data breaches. However, proof that data thieves are targeting hundreds of…

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Former teen stock swindler pleads to new hacking charges

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Dissent

Kevin Poulsen reports: A former teenage hacker who once served prison time for an online stock-trading scheme pleaded guilty last week to new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. On Sept. 29, Van T. Dinh, now 25, confessed to computer fraud and identity theft in federal…

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