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United, American airlines account fraud highlights hacker focus on travel industry

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Dissent

Jeremy Kirk reports: More than 20 travel-related websites have experienced data breaches in the past two months, according to a security expert who tracks the trade in stolen data. Data from those websites is being sold on underground forums by cybercriminals, said Alex Holden, CTO of Hold Security, a company that specializes in monitoring the…

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Weak state servers breach causes mass identity theft in Turkey; over 50 million citizens’ identity info stolen

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Dissent

Hasan Bozkurt reports: The Presidency’s State Audit Institution (DDK) has revealed that the state failed to protect Turkish citizens’ ID information. The servers of the administration’s website has been easily breached, ID information of citizens have been stolen. These include the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, the General Directorate of Land Registry and…

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U.S. Military Hack Looms Over Obama Speech

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Dissent

Courthouse News reports:  For 40 minutes on Monday, hackers posted ISIS propaganda and purported military documents on U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts, before both accounts were suspected (sic). The banner over both social media pages bore a picture of a headscarf-masked militant next to the words “CyberCaliphate” and “i love you isis.” Read…

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FBI investigates ISIS hacker group Cyber Caliphate following a series of hacks on news organizations in Maryland, Albuquerque

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Dissent

This is from a few days ago, but should have been noted on this blog. Alejandro Alba reported: The FBI is investigating a series of hacks on U.S. news oulets by Cyber Caliphate, a group that claims to be part of ISIS and is planning a series of cyber-attacks on homes and offices across the…

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Banque Cantonale de Geneve Leak – Rex Mundi (update2)

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Dissent

As seen on DPaste this morning and as tweeted by @RexMundi14: Dear friends and foes, Last week, we hacked our way into the servers of Swiss bank Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE). While we did not access any bank account, we did download 30,192 private emails sent by both Swiss and foreign customers, in addition…

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The National Accountable Care Congress is hacked; user data dumped

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Dissent

Add the National Accountable Care Congress to this week’s list of hacks.  A dump of almost 900 users’ information includes their usernames, first and last names, e-mail addresses, company, city, state, and zip, password, and their join date and expiration date for their account – all in plain text. SLC Security, which first reported the breach, notes that…

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