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Huge Swedish Data Leak Punished With (Only?) Half a Month’s Paycheck

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Swedish government has exposed sensitive details on millions of citizens in one of the biggest government screw-ups ever, and the official responsible for the whole fiasco was fined only half of her’s monthly salary, which is 70,000 Swedish krona — or around $8,500. The leak happened in September 2015, when the…

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“BestBuy” Admits to Hijacking Deutsche Telekom Routers With Mirai Malware

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Dissent

I was just thinking about this guy last night, and woke up to see that Catalin Cimpanu has an update on him: A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking over 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom, according to several reports in the German press [1, 2, 3, 4]. The…

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U.S. Dept. Of Education Encourages Indiana To Improve Data Security

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Dissent

Claire McInerny reports: The U.S. Department of Education (USED) sent a letter to Superintendent Jennifer McCormick this month outlining problems with the Indiana Department of Education’s security around student data. The state receives grant money from USED for implementing security systems, which opened the state up to an audit. According to the USED letter, the audit’s “objective…

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AlphaBay and Hansa taken down in coordinated operations by FBI and Dutch National Police

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Dissent

Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa will lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe Months of preparation and coordination have resulted today, 20 July 2017, in the takedown of two of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa. Two major law enforcement operations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US…

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Sentenced malware developer a ‘key resource’ for criminal networks

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Dissent

R. Robin McDonald reports that the hacker known as “Kolypto,” whose real name is Mark Vartanyan, has been sentenced in federal court in Atlanta to five years in prison. Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say Vartanyan developed, improved, and distributed a pernicious computer malware toolkit known as Citadel that targeted major financial and government institutions around the…

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Man tells feds he wrote software that stole $40M in bitcoin

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Dissent

Peter Hall reports: Police on the trail of two missing laptops and a gold necklace followed it to the Montgomery County home of a self-described computer hacker who claims responsibility for what could be one of the largest virtual currency heists of all time, court documents say. Theodore Price of Hatfield told a local detective…

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