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Cisco engineer resigns then nukes 16k WebEx accounts, 456 VMs

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: A former Cisco employee pleaded guilty to accessing the company’s cloud infrastructure in 2018, five months after resigning, to deploy code that led to the shut down of more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts and the deletion of 456 virtual machines. According to a plea agreement filed on July 30, 2020, 30-year-old…

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Former Chief Security Officer For Uber Charged With Obstruction Of Justice

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Dissent

This was a press release from the Department of Justice on August 20: SAN FRANCISCO – A criminal complaint was filed today in federal court charging Joseph Sullivan with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with the attempted cover-up of the 2016 hack of Uber Technologies Incorporated, announced United States Attorney…

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New Zealand stock exchange disrupted by fourth ‘offshore’ cyber attack

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Dissent

Reuters reports: The New Zealand government has activated national security systems after the nation’s stock exchange was disrupted by cyber attacks for a fourth day. There was no clarity on who was behind the “offshore” attacks, but the failure to stop them has raised questions about New Zealand’s security systems, experts said. Read more on The Guardian.

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15-year-old Merseyside boy arrested for hacking UK PayPal accounts

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Dissent

TEISS reports: Merseyside Police have arrested, and subsequently released under investigation, a fifteen-year-old boy under the suspicion of hacking into a number of PayPal accounts in the UK earlier this year. Aside from arresting and releasing the fifteen-year-old boy under investigation, Merseyside Police’s Cyber Dependent Crime Unit, along with the Matrix, carried out a search…

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38 Japan firms’ authentication data stolen amid surge in teleworkers

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Dissent

Kyodo News reports: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. and 36 other Japanese companies had authentication information to access their virtual private networks stolen and leaked by hackers this summer, an information security expert said Tuesday. VPN usage has increased as companies encourage employees to work from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…

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CO: Mental Health Partners discloses email hack potentially compromised employee and patient data

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Dissent

Mental Health Partners (also known as “Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc.) issued a press release this week about an employee email account compromise discovered in late March. An investigation revealed that the personal information of some MHP clients and current and former employees may have been accessed or taken during the incident. The…

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