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US fines former NSA employees who provided hacker-for-hire services to UAE

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company. Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and Daniel Gericke, 40, broke US export control laws that require companies and individuals to obtain a special license from the State Department’s Directorate of Defense…

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Hacker Compromises Personal Info Of NEISD Employees

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Dissent

Seen on WOAI: The North East ISD is alerting current and former employees that a hacker has compromised their personal information. District officials say the cyberattack in late August hacked the email of an employee who handles wire transfers in the payroll department. The hacker tried to have the money wired to a different bank, but the…

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Anonymous hacks Texas GOP website, floods it with memes

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Dissent

Carly Novell reports: The Republican Party of Texas’s official website appeared to be hacked by Anonymous on Saturday morning. The website was later taken down. After Texas’ restrictive abortion law went into effect on Sept. 1, Anonymous launched Operation Jane, an initiative targeting anyone attempting to enforce the law. The group followed through on its mission by hacking the Texas…

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Sg: MyRepublic data breach: 80,000 mobile users’ personal data exposed

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Dissent

Yahoo! reports: The personal data of about 80,000 MyRepublic mobile subscribers was accessed without authorisation last month. The telco said in a media release on Friday (10 September) that the breach took place on 29 August on a third-party data storage platform used to store the personal data of its mobile customers. Investigations showed that…

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United Nations’ Computers Breached by Hackers Earlier This Year – Resecurity

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Dissent

William Turton and Kartikay Mehrotra of Bloommberg report: Hackers breached the United Nations’ computer networks earlier this year and made off with a trove of data that could be used to target agencies within the intergovernmental organization. The hackers’ method for gaining access to the UN network appears to be unsophisticated: They likely got in…

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Br: Hackers take part of Anvisa’s website off the air and replace it with Argentina’s flag

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Dissent

Abhishek Pratap reports: The official website of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) was targeted by hackers. The invaders took the Traveler’s Health Declaration form off the air and replaced it with the Argentine flag. The action was considered by the agency as a retaliation for the suspension of the match between Brazil and Argentina….

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