John Hill reports: The University of Rhode Island has asked law enforcement officials for help in investigating who hacked into the university’s email accounts records, possibly obtaining the email addresses and passwords to about 3,000 university email accounts, a university spokeswoman said Thursday. Read more on Providence Journal. Related: URI FAQ on incident
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Second Ashley Madison data dump, bigger than the first, lays bare their source code
As if it couldn’t get any worse for Avid Life Media, a second data dump has been released on the dark web. This one appears to contain all of CEO Noel Biderman’s emails and the source code for their web sites. As Trusted Sec notes on their blog: if this turns out to be legitimate…
Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme
A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…
NZ Privacy Commissioner warns that republishing AshleyMadison data may violate NZ law
Radio New Zealand reports: Material is emerging on the internet which lists personal data, including thousands of email addresses which appear to belong to New Zealanders. Customer data from the dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouse was reportedly leaked on the “dark web”, meaning it is accessible only via…
Police nab Korean-Chinese hacker suspected of developing mobile spyware
Yonhap News reports: A Korean-Chinese hacker has been arrested on suspicion of developing mobile spyware that can not only steal one’s financial data but also bug Android smartphones, police said Wednesday. Seoul Gwanak Police Station said the 27-year-old Seo was arrested on Aug. 5 in southern Seoul on charges of developing spyware that can be…
FBI website hacker Charlton Floate, 19, facing jail for cyber attacks
Ross McCarthy reports: A teenage hacker who brought down FBI and Home Office websites from his family home in Solihull has been warned he faces jail. Charlton Floate, 19, used his internet expertise to target the US and British government sites, causing them to crash. The teenager, of Starbold Crescent, Knowle, previously admitted three charges under the Computer Misuse…