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…
Category: Miscellaneous
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…
Motherboard publishes full chat logs with “Guccifer 2.0”
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…
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…