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Student Freya Newman pleads guilty to hacking Frances Abbott design scholarship files

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Dissent

There’s an update to this incident. Nicola Berkovic reports that Freya Newman pleaded guilty. She faces up to two years in jail when she’s sentenced next month.

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Home Depot notifies New Hampshire of breach

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Dissent

This just in: Hogan Lovells, attorneys for Home Depot, sent the New Hampshire Attorney General a notification of the breach. Their letter, dated September 9,  reiterates that they first learned of a possible breach on September 2 and confirmed it on September 9. Home Depot still doesn’t have exact numbers, it seems. The letter says…

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300,000 K Box users’ information hacked and leaked by hackers protesting toll charges increase

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Dissent

Irene Tham reports: Attempts to fix the website of troubled karaoke bar chain K Box after the personal data of over 300,000 customers was exposed on Tuesday have led to the website being intermittently unavailable today. A company representative said its technical staff has been testing its computer systems, but did not provide details. […]…

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Hackers-for-hire raided 300 banks, corporates for TWELVE YEARS

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: A band of hackers for hire have raided some 300 banks, corporations and governments undetected for 12 years, possibly the longest campaign of its kind. The German hackers registered 800 front businesses in the UK to target and fully compromise organisations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria at the request of customers. Elite…

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Hackers pop Brazil newspaper to root home routers

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: A popular Brazilian newspaper has been hacked by attackers who used code that attacked readers’ home routers, says researcher Fioravante Souza of web security outfit Sucuri. Attackers implanted iFrames into the website of Politica Estadao, which when loaded began brute force password guessing attacks against users. Read more on The Register.

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Freenode IRC users told to change passwords after securo-breach

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: A security breach at popular, free and open source software-focused IRC network Freenode means users need to change their passwords. Freenode’s IRC server was compromised and passwords were likely sniffed by unidentified hackers, prompting a warning to users that they should reset their passwords as a precaution. The security breach was identified…

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