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Turkish Hackers Launch Second Cyber-Attack on Killeen’s Website

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Dissent

Some hacktivism activities are easier for me to understand than others. On August 16, Stephen Adams and Brandon Gray reported that the City of Killeen (Texas) website was hacked for the second time in roughly three months: Visitors to the website were welcomed to a message of “HACKED BY llJACKSPARROWll” along with an image of a Turkish Flag and Turkey…

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FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others: CNN (Updated)

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Dissent

Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz report: Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter. The intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and…

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Epic’s forums hacked again, with thousands of logins stolen

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Dissent

Another forum using vBulletin hacked?  Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker has stolen hundreds of thousands of forum accounts associated with Unreal Engine and its maker, Epic Games. More than 808,000 accounts were stolen in the attack — with more than half a million from Unreal Engine’s forums alone. Breach notification site LeakedSource.com, which obtained a copy…

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TW: Defense university computers hacked, ‘information secure’

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Dissent

The China Post reports: The National Defense University (NDU) Saturday confirmed that its computer system had been hacked in July but said that no classified information had been stolen. Only ordinary academic research materials had been stolen, NDU said.   Read more on The China Post.

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Cuban Man Pleads Not Guilty to US Hospital ID Theft Charges

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Dissent

Joe Mandak of AP has an update to the prosecution of Yoandy Perez Llanes for his role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that used patient information hacked from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2014: A Cuban national pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he conspired to file 900 phony federal tax…

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HK: Privacy concerns after health hack

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Dissent

Sometimes items don’t show up in my news searches until much later. Here’s an item that was actually published in July in a Hong Kong publication, The Standard: Hackers may have accessed up to 17,000 personal and clinical files kept by the Department of Health. The department said last night the Immunisation Record System of…

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