Farzan Hussain writes: This weekend, Bryce Casavant who is a Canadian conservation officer was suspended from duty when he denied the orders to kill two black bear cubs after their mother was killed for repetitively raiding a freezer located at Port Hardy which was filled with salmon and meat. Now a series of emails has been released…
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Poonam Dasgupta’s husband files data theft case against former employee
The Mumbai Mirror reports: Naveen Luthra, the husband of Bollywood actor Poonam Dasgupta and director of a mineral water plant, has filed a case of data theft against a former employee. Luthra alleged that before leaving his organisation, Santosh Kale stole data and shared it with an employee of a rival brand. The complaint was…
In: ISRO arm Antrix’s website hacked?
FPJ reports: In a major security breach, Indian space agency ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix’s website has been defaced, possibly by the Chinese. Antrix markets the satellite launch services and other space data for global customers. Incidentally, on Friday ISRO had launched five British satellites. Antrix’s website was hacked a couple of days back and the…
Cloudminr.io Hacked, User Database Put Up For Sale
Users of the “cloud mining” service Cloudminr.io were greeted with an unwelcome surprise when they showed up at the site in the last several hours: a CSV (comma separated values) file containing a sample of the entire user database for the website. The whole site is apparently for sale, and the hackers appear to have…
Scots customers among 2,000 people caught up in Barclays data theft
Herald Scotland reports: Barclays is paying around half a million pounds in compensation to 2,000 customers, including many in Scotland, after their personal data was found on a USB stick at a flat on the south coast of England. The electronic device was found by police with a copy of information originally lost last year…
Hacking Team chief: ‘We’re the GOOD GUYS fighting crims and rooting out lone wolves’
Oh ho. Kelly Fiveash reports that Hacking Team claims it was the victim of a state actor: The boss of Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team has spoken for the first time about the mass hack on the beleaguered company’s data – which has exposed severe software security holes and gifted terrorists with zero-day exploits. David Vincenzetti, in an…