Peter Westmore reports: One of the world’s leading human rights groups, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), has reported that it has been subject to “repeated and sophisticated” cyber-attacks on its web site. The group has traced the attacks back to Russia and China, which have been the subject of repeated criticism over human rights violations….
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Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….
National Domestic Workers Alliance notifies employees of email intrusion that may have compromised their information
The National Domestic Workers Alliance is notifying employees that their personal information – and/or that of their spouse or dependents – may have been accessed in an email intrusion breach. In a notification letter dated October 16, Tara Ellison, Finance and Operations Director, writes: The types of personal information that may be contained in the email accounts include…
HI: Records on prison gang trial were stolen, attorney says
Rob Shikina reports: A day after a binder containing sensitive court documents for a prison gang trial was found at a downtown restaurant, the attorney who owns the binder said someone stole it from him at the federal courthouse. Read more on Star Advertiser (subscription required).
Unencrypted laptop stolen from Community Technology Alliance
Adam Greenberg reports: California-based Community Technology Alliance (CTA) is notifying more than a thousand individuals that their personal information – including Social Security numbers – was on an unencrypted, password protected laptop that was stolen. How many victims? 1,177, Jen Padgett, CEO of CTA, told SCMagazine.com in a Friday email correspondence. What type of personal information? Names and Social…
Bay Area Bioscience Association (BayBio) notifies online customers of breach
The following notification template was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office yesterday: Dear BayBio Customer, It has come to our attention that sometime within the past two weeks the security of our online payment system was breached. We believe an intruder inserted files that captured the keystrokes of our visitors and may have captured credit…