Manoj Kumar Thambulingam reports: NLCIndia.com—one of the Indian Government Navarathna award winning public sector enterprise, providing several services through web interface — has reportedly been hacked , exposing the site’s user credentials.NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation) is an Indian Goverment owned Lignite mining and power generating company . And it was one of the elite company of India. It…
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Former Excellon employee’s sentencing delayed in hacking case
Debbie Sklar reports: A sentencing hearing was delayed Monday until Aug. 22 for an Oceanside man who staged repeated attacks on a computer system operated by his former employer, a manufacturer of precision laser and mechanical drilling equipment. Prosecutors are recommending that Conrad Pearson be sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay…
Slovenian student convicted after finding encryption flaws in government network
Paul Ducklin reports: A student from the University of Maribor in Slovenia has ended up with a prison sentence after finding cryptographic flaws in the country’s implementation of its secure communications system, known as TETRA. TETRA is short for Terrestrial Trunked Radio, a radio communications protocol that is widely used around the world, notably by law enforcement and…
Operator Of Codeshop.su Extradited To The United States To Face Charges
On Friday, May 20, 2016, a complaint was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charging Djevair Ametovski, a Macedonian citizen also known as “codeshop,” “sindrom,” and “sindromx,” with crimes related to his operation of the website Codeshop.su, a website allegedly created for the sole purpose of selling illegally obtained credit and debit card data and personal…
Standing should not stop data breach suit, civil liberties group says
Worth re-visiting in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins: Consumers whose personal information was accessed in a cyberattack should not have to show someone stole their identities or ruined their credit to have standing to sue the hacked company, according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed in a federal appeals court. Washington-based Electronic…
Court rejects Jetro’s argument in attempt to recoup fines and penalties over breaches
Long-time readers will remember the Restaurant Depot/Jetro breaches reported in 2011 and 2012. It appears that Jetro tried a novel approach to recovering some of the monies the breach cost them. As Dennis S. Klein, Jeffrey B. Goldberg, and Tyler Grove of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP explain, the court wasn’t buying their novel argument: … To allow its customers to…