Cory Smith reports: A youth football team from Dallas was celebrating its victory in a weekend tournament Sunday when a thief broke into their van in San Antonio. […] The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment and electronics. The players’ birth certificates were also stolen. “That’s what we’re most worried about, the birth certificates,”…
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Anonymous dumps KKK leader’s personal info online in ongoing Ferguson dispute
Travis Gettys reports: The online hacker collective Anonymous dumped a trove of personal information online belonging to alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan. The “hacktivist” group claims to have taken control this week of the @KuKluxKlanUSA Twitter account in an ongoing dispute between the two groups over Wilson’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen and the resulting…
Anonymous seizes Ku Klux Klan Twitter account over Ferguson threats
Violet Blue reports: Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity’s new campaign, #OpKKK. At 6:31pm PST Anonymous said it has knocked the website belonging to “Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” — the group responsible for the Ferguson threats —…
Easter Seals of New Hampshire employees find their direct deposits re-routed after falling for phishing scam
If seven of your employees fell for a phishing scam, I’d say that’s pretty compelling evidence that you need to do more training of your employees, wouldn’t you?
Massive cyber-attacks on human rights website
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….
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….