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Hackers Show They’ve Stolen 828 Gb of Data from Systems of Las Vegas Sands

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Dissent

Eduard Kovacs reports: The hackers that (sic) breached and defaced the websites of several casinos owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp last week have published a video to demonstrate that they’ve stolen 828 Gb of files from the company’s systems. The data apparently stolen by the hacktivsts hasn’t been published online. They’ve only made the…

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Global hackers hit Venezuelan government, servers ‘falling like dominoes’

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Dissent

Jeb Boone reports: Hackers around the world are setting their sights on Venezuela’s government web properties following violent repression against anti-government protesters and instances of internet censorship. Already, hacker groups have defaced, deleted and waged DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on Venezuelan government and military sites. Spearheaded by South American Anons, as the hackers…

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Second member of #Anonymous sentenced in Angel Soft DDoS prosecution

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Dissent

Paul Srubas reports: A second man implicated in an Internet attack on Angel Soft bathroom tissue’s website three years ago was sentenced recently in federal court in Green Bay. Jacob Wilkens, 24, of Postville, Iowa, must spend two years on probation and pay $110,933 in restitution, Magistrate Judge James Sickel ordered last week. Christopher Sudlik,…

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Kickstarter hacked – change your passwords

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Dissent

Yancey Strickler, CEO of Kickstarter writes: On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system. No credit card data of any kind…

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Breach at Texas State Technical College may have affected employees and former Waco students

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Dissent

Regina Dennis reports: Texas State Technical College is trying to track down hundreds of former students after learning that an Internet server breach last month could have included their personal identification information. TSTC information technology specialists on Jan. 30 discovered that someone attempted to illegally access a server that contained personal information for the nearly…

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Hackers used previously unknown Internet Explorer flaw in new attacks

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: A previously unknown flaw in a recent version of Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer web browser is being used to attack Internet users, including some visitors to a major site for U.S. military veterans, researchers said Thursday. Security firm FireEye Inc discovered the attacks against IE 10 this week, saying that hundreds or…

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