Phil Muncaster reports: A bug in SWIFT banking software may have been exploited to allow hackers to make off with $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February, according to reports. Investigators at British defense contractor BAE Systems told Reuters that the malware in question, evtdiag.exe, had been designed to change code in SWIFT’s Access…
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Church website hacked by extremist Islamic group
Rebecca Russell reports that the website of the Lamont Christian Reformed Church in Michigan was defaced with a message purportedly from the United Cyber Caliphate. A video from the United Cyber Caliphate automatically played reading, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted”. The church’s website…
WA: Vancouver student expelled for hacking high school email system
KPTV reports: A Vancouver Public School District spokesperson said Skyview High School email system was hacked early Tuesday morning by a student. Communications Director Patricia Nuzzo said the student was “emergency expelled” until appropriate disciplinary action can be determined. Nuzzo added the student hacked into a teacher email account and sent six different messages to more…
Millions of porn accounts for sale on dark web
Looks like I missed a breach report from weeks ago. Troy Hunt writes: Today I’ve been looking at the Naughty America data breach which was in the news 10 days ago. The breach itself is dated March 14 which is a day short of six weeks before the time of writing. Yet somehow, Naughty America have yet…
COMELEC hacking should be treated as a serious national security problem
This column by Cecilio Arillo has some interesting figures…. and concerns. IF no security contingency plan is yet in place, the country’s armed services (police and military) should immediately draw up one because the likelihood of an election failure is not far removed as a result of the massive hacking of the confidential biometric files…
Data leak enough to impeach Comelec execs – lawyers
As bad as the Mexican voter database leak may seem, the hack and data dump affecting over 55 million Filipino voters is much worse, in my opinion. Not only was more sensitive information involved – including passport information and fingerprints – but the data were freely available to an untold number of parties who may…