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Follow-up: Spammers abusing DreamHost sites following January hack

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dissent

Lucian Constantin reports a follow-up to a January breach involving DreamHost: The security breach suffered by DreamHost in January has resulted in hundreds of rogue PHP pages redirecting users to work-at-home scams, according to researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler. Read more on ComputerworldUK.

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Law enforcement targeted by hackers

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Dissent

There have been a number of  law enforcement-related web sites hacked since last June. Some of those hacks —  like those involving the Arizona Department of Public Safety, BART, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, Baldwin County Sheriff’s office in Alabama,  Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R.), the California Statewide Law…

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Hungarian citizen who attempted to extort Marriott International into giving him a job sentenced to prison

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dissent

As an update to a case previously mentioned on this blog, Dow Jones Newswire reports that  Attila Nemeth has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Marriott International into giving him a job by illegally acquiring their confidential propietary data. Nemeth, who arguably should be considered for a role in any reality…

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SLC Police Department hack: hackers delete their own files after reiterating pledge not to expose residents’ personal info

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dissent

Hacktivism raises all kinds of ethical issues.  In an unusual move, hackers responsible for the hack of the Salt Lake City Police Department have deleted their copies of some of the files they had acquired from the PD’s web site. In announcing the hack on Tuesday, the hackers  known as Kahuna and CabinCr3w indicated that…

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OH: Greene Co. website hacked; users warned

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dissent

Mark Gokavi reports: Greene County residents who have used an email address, user name and password on any Greene County website may want to change that information in other applications because the county’s web server was hacked into Monday night. Greene County Auditor David Graham said the breach at about 9:30 p.m. Monday did not…

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Salt Lake City Police Department hacked in “OpPiggyBank” (updated)

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dissent

A hack of the Salt Lake City Police Department this week has raised concerns after hackers claimed to have acquired information that might jeopardize the identities of confidential informants and operations. On Tuesday, the hackers, known as @CabinCr3w and @ItsKahuna on Twitter, dumped some data on PasteBin and PasteBaythat included 1,073 names, usernames, e-mail addresses,…

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