JTA reports: An Israeli cyberintelligence company claims it has hacked Islamic State communications and learned about the group’s plans to attack U.S. air bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Intsights, which is run by former Israel Defense Forces intelligence officers and based in Herzliya, said Wednesday it had hacked the forum on which ISIS…
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DHS Announces Cyber Incident Reporting Information: US-CERT
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released guidelines and points of contact for reporting cyber incidents to the Federal Government. This communication follows the recent release of Presidential Policy Directive 41 (PPD-41)—United States Cyber Incident Coordination—which outlines how the Federal Government will handle cyber incidents. Users and administrators are encouraged to review these documents…
Notorious Hacker ‘Phineas Fisher’ Says He Hacked Turkey’s Ruling Political Party
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A notorious hacker has claimed responsibility for hacking Turkey’s ruling party, the AKP, and stealing more than 300,000 internal emails and other files. The hacker, who’s known as Phineas Fisher and has gained international attention for his previous attacks on the surveillance tech companies FinFisher and Hacking Team, took credit for breaching the servers of Turkey’s ruling…
NC: Pink Hill pastor reports ransomware locked up files
Matt Byliss reports: A pastor said hackers locked him out of his computer on Tuesday, demanding money in exchange for files. Andy Wood from Potters Hill Missionary Baptist Church said hackers demanded over $700 to unlock the computer, without even guaranteeing he would get his files back. He faced the possibility of losing over 700…
Hacker who stole $50G from George Soros’ foundation sentenced up to six years in prison
Lauren Klose and Reuven Blau report: The computer hacker who stole $50,000 from a nonprofit run by George Soros was sentenced Monday to up to six years in prison. Computer expert David Kupratis, 31, of Parlin, N.J. twice assumed another person’s identity and then filched a laptop computer and cellphone from a third person in…
Information on 154 million voters exposed in the cloud – again. (Updated)
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has found yet another misconfigured database with U.S. voter information and profiles. This one has 154 million records. See my report about it over on the Daily Dot. One day maybe our government or state attorneys general will start actually enforcing some data security on those who create these massive…