On June 4, BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had experienced a network attack on an extranet site in 2014. Due to the nature and scope of the attack, they provided a data set to the Pentagon’s Damage Assessment Management Office (DAMO), who subsequently…
Category: Hack
Arizona state agency website hacked to display Muslim message
On June 10, Mary Jo Pitzl reported: A group that calls itself the Middle East Cyber Army hacked into the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures website over the weekend, the second known attack on an Arizona site. MECA also hacked into the site of Art and Sol, a Scottsdale-based group that produces children’s musical…
None of us is safe: Major cybersecurity company hacked
Guess what: Even the best security companies can be hacked. That’s what Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said Wednesday when it announced its systems had been attacked, most likely by hackers working on behalf of a country. Read more on CNET.
Russian hackers blamed for TV5 cyber attack
Catherine Hardy reports: Police in France say they now think the cyber attack on TV5 Monde in April was the work of a group of Russian hackers known as APT28, and not the group calling itself Islamic State, as originally suggested. Jihadist propaganda was posted on TV5’s website during the infiltration in April. Details of…
Updates on OPM breach(es)
Some bits ‘n pieces of the follow-ups on the OPM hack… Malia Zimmerman reports: In addition to data from the OPM breach, Roberts said a new OWL search has uncovered another 9,500 government log-in credentials stolen this week from a variety of county, state and federal agencies across the nation, for everything from the Obamacare…
Lithuanian Military Website hacked to post false information
giu writes: If we had to believe what we saw on Lithuanian Armed Forces website on Thursday morning, then the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949, is preparing for the annexation of Kaliningrad, Russia’s…