Robert Hart reports: A hacker who claimed to have logged into President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October will not be punished because he tried to contact American authorities and report the security breach, a Dutch prosecutor announced Wednesday following a police investigation into the incident by the country’s High Tech Crime Team. Read more on Forbes. My…
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OH: Firelands middle school online classes suspended following ‘Zoom bombing’ incident
Carissa Woytach reports: A Zoom meeting at a Firelands School building was hacked Monday, forcing the building to suspend live online classes. A seventh-grade online class from South Amherst Middle School was hacked, with a person posing as a student joining the meeting displaying pornography on their screen, according to emails sent to parents and…
UK: One security incident affects more than half of East Devon Council, another affects home sales in Hackney
BBC reports: Members of a Devon district council suffered a significant data breach when more than half had passwords made available online to other councillors. Thirty-seven of 60 East Devon District Council members were affected by the breach at the start of November, a full council meeting has heard. Swift action was taken to rectify…
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds’ dominance against it
Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing have a somewhat mind-boggling update to the SolarWinds hack – a hack that will be remembered as one of the biggest and most concerning hacks of 2020. And it’s only likely to get worse for SolarWinds, whose stock already dropped significantly. We know that companies can recover from breaches and…
NY: Great Neck Yeshiva HS Site Hacked, Anti-Semitic Propaganda Posted
Daniel Hampton reports: The website for a yeshiva high school in Great Neck was down Monday evening following an apparent hack in which anti-Semitic propaganda and racial slurs were reportedly published. Patch confirmed that around 5 p.m., the website for North Shore Hebrew Academy showed the site was “under construction.” Read more on Patch.
Chinese hackers suspected of attacking government agencies in Mongolia
From SecurityLab.ru: A Chinese cybercriminal APT group is suspected of hacking into the network of a Mongolian software company and hacking into a chat application used by hundreds of Mongolian government agencies. According to experts from ESET, the attack took place in June this year. Hackers attacked an application called Able Desktop, developed by local company Able Software. The…