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Dark Side: The rise and fall of a suburban hacker

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Dissent

Matt Hrodey had an interesting piece on Daniel Placek of Darkode infamy. It begins: Daniel Placek was just old enough to buy a beer when the FBI knocked on the door to his parents’ house in Bayside, where he was living, and seized his computer. Placek, a 21-year-old self-taught computer programmer, confessed most everything to the…

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KS: USD 259 investigating computer hacking attempt

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Dissent

John Boyd reports that not much is known yet about a hacking attempt at USD 259: The Wichita Public School District is investigating a hacking attempt. USD 259 Superintendent John Allison said Monday morning that they do not know the extent of the attempt, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it involves student…

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Teen arrested in TalkTalk hack (UPDATE2)

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Dissent

Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…

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TX: Emergence Health Network notifies 11,100 mental health patients of possible PHI breach

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Dissent

First, their press release: (El Paso, Texas October 16, 2015) Emergence Health Network (EHN) is in the process of contacting individuals regarding an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information. An EHN computer server was compromised in August through an unauthorized internet connection. The affected computer server was disabled to minimize a compromise. It is not…

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Anonymous Targets Thai Govt, Leaks Data from State-owned Telecom Firm

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Dissent

Waqas writes: Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. […] Anonymous claims that the group managed to steal confidential details about the…

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In wake of OPM breach, DoD proposes hack victim database

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Dissent

Roy Urrico reports: Weeks after the Federal government began sending snail mail notifications to the 21.5 million victims of the Office of Personnel Management breach, the Department of Defense proposed creating a hack victims database. The Pentagon’s proposed database, the Defense Manpower Data Center, would store the information in a “holding file,” according to an…

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