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DreamHost forces Shell/FTP password reset following “security issue”

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Dissent

From DreamHost’s status blog: Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution. Please login to our web panel and change any passwords you may have with us. We’ll keep this post…

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WV: City computers possibly hacked

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Dissent

Beth Sergent reports: The City of Point Pleasant may’ve been hacked. According to a press release from Mayor Brian Billings on Friday morning, the City of Point Pleasant was notified from an outside agency of a potential security breach of its computer system. Billings’ statement said the apparent breach was originated from an outside source….

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UK: SDT suspends ACS:Law founder for two years

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dissent

James Swift reports: ACS:Law founder Andrew Crossley has been suspended from practising for two years and ordered to pay £76,326.55 in costs at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) hearing yesterday (16 January). Crossley, who is bankrupt and represented himself, admitted six charges levied at him by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as a result of…

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Facebook denies that “Hannibal” has hacked Arabs’ Facebook accounts

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Dissent

In a series of posts on Pastebin, a hacker who calls himself “Hannibal” (for Hannibal Lecter), has dumped thousands of e-mail addresses and plain-text passwords that he claims are from Arabs’ Facebook accounts. Yesterday, he posted  20,000.  Today, he posted 30,000 more. I contacted Facebook for a statement on the allegations that they have been hacked….

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Zappos hacked; notifying 24+ million Zappos.com and 6pm.com customers of breach and to reset passwords

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dissent

Online retailer Zappos has been hacked.  Its CEO, Tony Hsieh, posted a copy of an email notification explaining the breach to all employees with a copy of the email notification sent to customers: The following email was sent to our employees today: Subject: Important – Security Dear Zappos Employees – Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully…

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Commentary: Morally bankrupt hacktivism

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dissent

One of the blogs that I check every day for news on data breaches is an incredible resource called cyberwarnews.info. Lee’s blog has been the source of a number of recent entries in DataLossDB. Today, Lee posted a commentary on his blog where he writes, in part: So to all the hackers, CWN continues to ask for…

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