Update: the phishing attack turned out to be a simulation. See links in the comments below this post. Sheera Frenkel and Jonathan Martin report: The Democratic National Committee said Wednesday that it was alerted to an attempted hack of its voter database this week and that it had notified law enforcement. The effort to target…
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Former Brownsville Fire Chief pleads not guilty to computer security breach
CBS reports: Former Brownsville Fire Chief Carlos Elizondo pleaded not guilty to 11 felony counts of computer security breach on Wednesday. Elizondo is accused of accessing the Brownsville Fire Department’s emergency reporting system without consent on 11 occasions from Oct. 29,2017 to Nov. 23, 2017, according to a superseding grand jury indictment unsealed in June….
Wikileaks’ Twitter Chats Exposed as 11,000 Private Messages Posted Online
Jason Murdock reports: More than 11,000 messages from a Twitter group used by WikiLeaks have been posted online in full, exposing private chats between 2015 and 2017. The cabal—populated with around 10 close supporters—was a “low security” group created to share news stories, distribute disclosures, collate freedom of information requests, discuss politics and, in WikiLeaks’ own words,…
How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
Sean Gallagher does a deeper dive into the indictment of 12 GRU agents for meddling with the U.S. 2016 election. Here’s just a small snippet: After digging into this latest indictment, the evidence suggests Trump may not have made a very good call on this matter [publicly expressing doubt that Russia was involved]. But his…
Mueller indicts 12 Russians for hacking into DNC
Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn, and Cory Bennett report: Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers on Friday, and accused them of hacking into the Democratic National Committee to sabotage the 2016 presidential election. The indictments, announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, come just days before a scheduled Monday summit in Helsinki between…
Former Brownsville Fire Chief Facing Security Breach Charges
KRGV reports: The former Brownsville fire chief is facing more charges. Carlos Elizondo was indicted by a grand jury in an 11-count case of computer security breach charges. He’s accused of logging into a computer network on 11 occasions to access the emergency reporting system portal for the Brownsville Fire Department without the city’s consent….