From the how-much-can-we-hype-this-before-they-catch-on dept.: Richard Chirgwin reports: Matthew Flannery, once paraded by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as the “leader” of international hacking collective LulzSec, has pleaded guilty to the five remaining charges against him, in Gosford Local Court. […] The only victim of his work identified in public was the Narrabri Shire Council in the Australian…
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Unclear whether OPM hackers accessed feds’ names
NextGov reports: The Office of Personnel Management is not required to tell employees whether attackers who recently breached a human resources database saw their names. The hackers, believed to be from China, apparently wanted files on staff who have applied for top-secret security clearances, The New York Times previously reported. OPM and the Department of Homeland Security — the…
Global Firm AECOM Notifies Workers Of Payroll Hack
Jeanne Price reports: With clients in over 150 countries around the glove, architectural and building firm AECOM employs thousands of individuals worldwide. Now many of those workers and their former colleagues have become part of the latest US corporate payroll data breach. AECOM is an acronym for Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Maintenance – the company’s five…
CNET attacked by Russian hacker group
Seth Rosenblatt of CNET reports: A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET’s website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data. A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that…
Farrah Abraham’s frozen yogurt website hacked
The website for Farrah Abraham’s new frozen yogurt shop was hacked, and its homepage replaced with a graphic clip from her sex tape. Read more on FoxNews.
Computer Hacker Pleads Guilty In Credit, Debit Card Scheme
A 27-year-old computer hacker pleaded guilty Friday to being part of an international conspiracy to steal account information from major banks in the United States in order to steal money from ATMs all over the world. As WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported, Qendrim Dobruna admitted to hacking into the systems of J.P. Morgan Chase, which processed transactions by the…