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Hackers demand £1 million from David Beckham’s advisers

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Dissent

Hannah reports: As if exposing David Beckham’s rants regarding his missed opportunity of knighthood were not enough, hackers demanded almost a million euros from his advisers. According to a report from Mirror, these hackers were believed to be using Russian servers to access files and messages from the database in a sports agency headed by Simon Oliveira,…

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Data from 2014 hack of children’s online game Bin Weevils leaked online; hacker claims 20m records

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Dissent

We’ve seen it before – in fact, we seem to be seeing it a lot recently – data from an old hack first being publicly leaked. This time it’s Bin Weevils, a British online children’s game, owned by 55 Pixels.  In September 2014, Bin Weevils posted a note on their site that they had discovered a “vulnerability”…

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A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A grey-hat hacker going by the name of Stackoverflowin says he’s pwned over 150,000 printers that have been left accessible online. Speaking to Bleeping Computer, the hacker says he wanted to raise everyone’s awareness towards the dangers of leaving printers exposed online without a firewall or other security settings enabled. Automated script…

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An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Dissent

Russell Brandom reported this yesterday (Friday): Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. Roughly six hours…

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Hackers break into Polish banks through government regulator charged with bank security standards

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Dissent

Patrick O’Neill reports: Polish banks have spent the last week searching for hackers who broke into several of the country’s financial institutions in an incident that looks to be three months old, according to Polish media. The malware infection appears to have come through — of all things — compromised servers at the Polish financial regulator KNF, which…

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Particle accelerator hacked: Boffins’ hashed passwords beamed up

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: UPDATE The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is investigating a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists’ usernames and passwords Friday. Hackers of as yet unknown origin hit systems hosting the web portal where researchers from ANSTO and third parties can request time to use the…

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