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JP: Japanese university finds data leak 6 months after cyberattacks

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Dissent

Kyodo News reports: Waseda University said Monday it took about half a year before it discovered personal data on roughly 3,300 officials and students had leaked via cyberattacks. Tokyo-based Waseda, one of the top private universities in Japan, said the stolen data included the names, identification numbers, email addresses and other information pertaining to officials…

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National Archives finds same malware that stole gov’t personnel data

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Dissent

Sean Gallagher reports: In the wake of the discovery of malware on the network of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the National Archives and Records Administration discovered three desktop computers that had been infected with the same remote access malware. The malware was detected by the National Archives’ own intrusion detection system after receiving signature data…

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Blackshades malware hacker gets 5 years in prison

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Dissent

Ross Toback and Josh Saul report: The mastermind behind the malicious software “Blackshades” that infected a half-million computers worldwide was sentenced to almost 5 years in prison Tuesday as the federal judge bashed him for “spreading misery to the lives of thousands.” Alexander Yucel, 25, was arrested in Moldova in 2013 and he pleaded guilty…

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Calgary teen charged in public school board student data hack

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Erika Tucker reports: A 15-year-old Calgary teen has been arrested and charged with hacking into public school board servers between November 2014 and March 2015. The teen allegedly hacked into the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) servers using phishing e-mails and credentials. Police say once in the server, he accessed corporate and personal information, but wouldn’t…

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Israel-linked spyware used stolen credentials of Chinese tech giant

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Tamar Pileggi reports: A sophisticated computer virus discovered at hotels hosting high-level nuclear talks and reportedly linked to Israel appears to have also broken into Chinese electronics giant Foxconn. According to the cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, the Duqu 2.0 software used legitimate digital certificates stolen from the Taiwan-based electronics company to load and run…

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Akorn, Inc. notifies employees after email accounts compromised (UPDATED)

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Add Akorn, Inc.  to any list you maintain of organizations whose employee email accounts have been compromised. Through their external counsel, the niche generic pharmaceutical firm notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 4 that they had discovered that four employee e-mail accounts had been comprised over the prior two months, exposing personal…

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