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Fine Gael website hackers spared jail sentences

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dissent

Remember the hack of the FineGael web site and data dump back in 2011? RTÉ News has this update: Two students, who hacked Fine Gael’s 2011 election website have been spared jail sentences and left with clean records. Darren Martyn (21) from Cloonbeggin, Claregalway, Galway, and 20-year-old Donnacha O Cearbhaill from The Ring, Birr, Co….

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City Of Wichita Website Hit By Hackers Over The Weekend

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dissent

KAKE reports: The City of Wichita says it’s [sic] website was hacked over the weekend, compromising the personal information of 29,000 vendors and employees. In a news release, city officials say hackers may have gained access to Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers and banking information of vendors and employees who were reimbursed by the…

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Visa’s fines are punitive, not compensatory – Genesco

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dissent

More on Genesco’s lawsuit over Visa’s fines following a data breach: Jeffrey Benzing reports that Genesco is arguing that Visa’s own internal documents show that they view breach fines as penalties and not compensatory. Genesco argues that the fines are therefore unenforceable under California law.  Read more about their legal argument on Main Justice. Previous…

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Thirteen men involved in Operation Payback indicted

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

Gil Aegerter reports: Thirteen alleged members of the computer hacking group Anonymous were indicted Thursday on conspiracy charges accusing them of coordinated cyberattacks on anti-piracy groups, government agencies, credit card companies and others, dubbed Operation Payback. The federal grand jury indictment, filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., alleges that the 13 used distributed denial…

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Adobe warns 2.9 million customers of data breach after cyber-attack (Update5)

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

[Note: if you came to this site because you’re having trouble enrolling in Experian’s service with the Adobe activation code, jump to Update 5, below. Please do not simply post that the activation code didn’t work – tell us whether you tried Firefox if you were having problems with another browser.]. Adam Gabbatt reports that…

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Feds Arrest Alleged ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ the Brain Behind the Silk Road Drug Site

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

Kim Zetter reports: The FBI has arrested the San Francisco man they say ran Silk Road, the notorious underground digital bazaar that allowed traffickers to anonymously peddle heroin, cocaine and nearly anything else illegal. Ross William Ulbricht, 29, who allegedly operated the site as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was charged in the Southern District of New…

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