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OpenWRT reports data breach after hacker gained access to forum admin account

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The maintainers of OpenWRT, an open-source project that provides free and customizable firmware for home routers, have disclosed a security breach that took place over the weekend. According to a message posted on the project’s forum and distributed via multiple Linux and FOSS-themed mailing lists, the security breach took place on Saturday, January 16, around 16:00…

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US drops extradition request for Dublin hacker who stole $2m in cryptocurrency

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Dissent

Paul Nellan reports: The United States has dropped its bid to extradite a Dublin computer hacker for the theft of $2m in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies after his conviction here, the High Court was told today. With the withdrawal of the extradition request, Conor Freeman is no longer facing a maximum possible sentence of 108…

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UK: Wentworth Golf Club members informed of hack

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Dissent

Golf Punk reports: The exclusive Wentworth Club in Surrey home to the European Tour has suffered a data breach with membership data stolen. The club’ membership, which reads like a whos who of the rich and famous, has been informed by the club and asked to remain vigilant. The entire membership of over 4,000 members…

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IE: Schools on security alert as gardaí probe online class breach

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Dissent

Katherine Donnelly and Robin Schiller report: Schools are on alert to IT security risks around online classes as a Garda investigation gets under way into how a number of men gained unauthorised access to a video lesson for second-year students. The breach, at a Co Meath school on Wednesday, was compounded when the men engaged…

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Cybercriminals are Bypassing Multi-factor Authentication to Access Organisation’s Cloud Services

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Dissent

Graham Cluley writes: The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to companies to better protect their cloud-based accounts after several recent successful attacks. According to an advisory published by CISA, an increasing number of attacks have succeeded as more employees have begun to work remotely with a variety…

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Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccines. EMA is the decentralized agency that reviews and approves COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union,…

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