An Ugandan man was on Friday charged with hacking into Safaricom’s system. Ronald Nsale had been in police custody and was presented in court following allegations that he had hacked into the electoral commission’s systems. It was alleged that he was working with the Islamic State group and was charged with unauthorized access to a…
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UK: Hacker ‘caused global chaos by fuelling 1.7 million cyber attacks’
Tristan Kirk has a follow-up on his previous coverage of the Adam Mudd case. A young hacker caused global chaos and “incalculable” damage by fuelling more than 1.7 million cyber attacks around the world, the Old Bailey heard today. Adam Mudd, 20, helped fellow hackers to attack and crash websites and computer servers by selling…
Cleveland Metropolitan School District discloses phishing-related incident
Cleveland Metropolitan School District, (“CMSD”), recently discovered an event that that may affect the security of personal and financial information of a select group of employees, students, their guardians, and/or other affiliates of CMSD. What Happened? On March 6, 2017, CMSD determined that certain categories of employee, student, and/or guardian information contained in a limited…
Feds seek 30-year sentence for Russian master hacker convicted in Seattle
Mike Carter reports: In Russian cybercrime mastermind Roman Seleznev, the Department of Justice is boasting it finally caught and convicted a big fish in the often impenetrable world of global computer theft — and now the agency intends to make a lesson of him. Federal prosecutors will ask a Seattle judge Friday to sentence the…
Millions of Fashion Fantasy Game accounts exposed in data breach, responsibility thrown to the wind
Charlie Osborne reports on an all-too-common situation: a site or vendor has a data breach and either doesn’t seem to know, despite repeated attempts to alert them, or doesn’t seem to care. In any event, while the world seems to know about a breach, the responsible firm continues on its way as if there is…
He’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do. Now what will YOU do?
So far, I have not attempted to validate the claims in a post spotted on a dark web forum, below. I am posting it in the hopes that it will make some teachers – and school administrators – think about when was the last time they did a password reset, and might this be a good time to…