Last month, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the arraignment of an individual on charges of hacking a bank. This week, they announce an arraignment in a second hacking case: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday May 14, 2015 arraigned one Mary Ozala before Justice Kudirat. A. Jose of the Lagos State High…
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Airplane hacking panic! Why it’s a surely a storm in a teacup
There has been much media coverage of Chris Robert’s alleged claims about controlling an airplane in-flight. I haven’t bothered to link to them as they generally just re-hash what is already known and not known. But Iain Thomson got a more detailed response from those who are skeptical about Roberts’ claims: At last year’s…
St. Louis Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach
Brian Krebs reports: The St. Louis Federal Reserve today sent a message to the banks it serves alerting them that in late April 2015 attackers succeeded in hijacking the domain name servers for the institution. The attack redirected Web searches and queries for those seeking a variety of domains run by the government entity to a Web page…
UK: Bettys specialty foods notifies customers of data breach
From Bettys.co.uk, a notification of a breach they discovered on May 8. Frustratingly, they only say that it was due to an “industry-wide software weakness” without being more specific as to what they’re talking about. DataBreaches.net contacted Bettys to ask for more specifics, but they declined to answer, saying public disclosure would only encourage copycat attacks, and…
Expo 2015 – Anonymous Italy claims to have stolen 1TB data from Best Union
Pierluigi Paganini reports: Anonymous Italy continues to target the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition being hosted in Milan with a series of attacks under the Operation Italy (#OpItaly). The collective of hackers it targeting systems of the organization and the companies that are working for the event. The last victim in order of time is the Best Union,…
Anonymous Hacks Chile Govt In Support Of Student Protests, Against Police Brutality
Waqas reports: Anonymous hacktivist breached a government of Chile website and leaked login details of officials in support of student protests against the government’s education policy. Read more on HackRead.