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SG: Hacker jailed 6 months for attacking Prime Minister’s Office website and other offences

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Dissent

Ian Poh reports: Undeterred by the Government’s warning that it would deal with those who threaten to attack Singapore’s cyber infrastructure, a hacking enthusiast tested his skills on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website. Mohammad Azhar Tahir, 28, was sentenced to two months’ jail on Monday for entering unauthorised computer code into the site on…

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Was Sony pennywise and password foolish?

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Dissent

Iain Thomson reports that past decisions by Sony may have come back to bite it: […] As a result of those spending cutbacks, we’re told by sources, IT budgets were sharply reduced, finance functions were outsourced, and belts tightened in the theatrical and home entertainment departments. Some 800 people were made redundant between 2009 and…

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Sony tells employees not to respond to hackers’ emails

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Dissent

Mike Fleming Jr. reports on Deadline|Hollywood that Sony Chief Michael Lynton has sent the following message to employees in the wake of a threatening email to employees that purports to be from the Guardians of Peace: We are understand (sic) that some our employees recently received an email containing malicious and threatening contents from an unknown sender….

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Ex-Wake employee charged with accessing boss’ emails

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Dissent

WRAL reports: The [North Carolina] State Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested a former Wake County employee accused of accessing hundreds of emails of his one-time boss, Register of Deeds Laura Riddick.Nelish Kumar R. Tailor, 39, of Apex, was charged with 13 counts of accessing government computers. Read more on WRAL.

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I think we’re running out of hashtags for how bad the Sony #databreach was (Update1)

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Dissent

It just gets more and more embarrassing for Sony. Here are just a few stories from today’s news: It Gets Worse: The Newest Sony Data Breach Exposes Thousands Of Passwords Sony Pictures hackers stole 47,000 social security numbers, including Sly Stallone’s SONY PICTURES HACK SPREADS TO DELOITTE: THOUSANDS OF AUDIT FIRM’S SALARIES ARE LEAKED Let the Congressional hearings…

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Over 30,0000 Deloitte employees’ salary info possibly stolen from Sony because former Deloitte employee had saved some files?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Dissent

Oi veh. Kevin Roose reports: Along with the files smuggled out of Sony Pictures this week, we also discovered a cache of documents apparently relating to internal personnel matters at Deloitte. This appears to be an accident of circumstance. The files appear to come from a single target’s computer. While this person appears to be…

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