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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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CoveritLive Warns Users of Possible Security Breach

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dissent

While it isn’t indicated on its official site, the CoveritLive service has apparently been hacked and some personal user data may have been compromised, according to an email sent to subscribers this evening. The Live blogging technology is used by plenty of journalists, bloggers, and web sites as an easy way to blog live events….

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UK: Namesco spits out phishy warning after credit card info leak

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: Namesco customers are angry over the domain name and hosting firm’s handling of a security breach that exposed their credit card details. A number of punters’ card details were leaked after hackers broke into Namesco’s systems. The web biz notified these customers as well as advising a larger number of its clients…

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