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WA: Teacher Passwords Stolen, Grades Hacked At 3 Seattle High Schools

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Dissent

Someone has stolen teacher passwords and changed grades in a Seattle Public Schools computer system, the district said in an email to teachers obtained Thursday by KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The district’s IT staff found the theft of network login passwords “appears to have been going on for the last few weeks, possibly longer,” the…

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Malware compromises infogroup payment transactions

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dissent

Omaha-based Infogroup recently notified clients that their credit card information may have been accessed. Attorneys for the data, research and marketing company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on April 12 that the firm had recently detected that some of its computers had been infected with a virus that may have compromised some payment transactions….

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Hackers may have accessed more than 25,000 South Carolina students’ personal info

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Dissent

The identity of thousands of students and teachers has potentially been compromised after officials with the Lancaster County School District say a hacker was able to access their system. According to school officials, the hackers were able to hack into the district’s system by monitoring district computers and capturing keystrokes to get passwords. Those passwords…

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Hacker sentenced to two years in prison for unleashing virus to attack media outlets naming him

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Dissent

A computer programmer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers around the world and directed them to attack media outlets that republished stories that mentioned him, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. In September 2010, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Bruce Raisley, 48,…

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DOJ takes steps to take down Coreflood botnet that infected 2.3 million computers

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Dissent

Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the filing of a civil complaint, the execution of criminal seizure warrants, and the issuance of a temporary restraining order as part of the most complete and comprehensive enforcement action ever taken by U.S authorities to disable an international botnet. The botnet is a network of hundreds…

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Malaysian National Admits to Hacking into the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, FedComp, and Others

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Dissent

Lin Mun Poo, 32, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Brooklyn to possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers.  Poo also admitted that he compromised a computer server belonging to the Federal Reserve Bank, and that he installed a malicious code onto that server. According to the…

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