Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: We spoke to the hacker who claimed to have broken into the servers of the Democratic National Committee, who goes by the name of “Guccifer 2.0,” in reference to the notorious hacker who leaked the George W. Bush paintings and recentlyclaimed to have hacked Hillary Clinton’s email server. In the interest of…
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Hacker leaks over 260 internal Democratic Party files on Hillary Clinton
From the I-doubt-this-will-help-her-campaign dept., Jason Murdock reports: The hacker responsible for breaching the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has released a fresh trove of 261 internal files, donor lists and memos – largely focused on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The data dump, leaked by a hacker dubbed “Guccifer 2.0”, consists of a…
Quebec Liberals’ strategy meetings were leaking…
Yet another security incident linked to failure to change default passwords. CJAD in Canada reports that the Quebec Liberals’ failure to change the default password on their videoconferencing system allowed anyone to gain access to strategy meetings. The user who found the flaw showed off the unlimited access to the Journal de Montreal. Published screenshots show archived videos…
GitHub Security Update: Reused password attack
Posted June 16, and yet another reminder why you shouldn’t re-use passwords across sites. I know my readers don’t really need any such reminders, but do talk to your kids, parents, grandparents, friends…. What happened? On Tuesday evening PST, we became aware of unauthorized attempts to access a large number of GitHub.com accounts. This appears to…
DNC hacker slams CrowdStrike, publishes opposition memo on Donald Trump
Steve Ragan reports: A hacker claiming responsibility for the DNC hack that made headlines earlier this week has slammed the security company responsible for the incident response, and leaked several documents compromised during the incident – including a 235-page opposition memo on Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that hackers – believed to be Russian…
Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump
Ellen Nakashima reports: Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach. Read more on Washington Post.