James Temperton and Matt Burgess report: The front-end computer systems of Mossack Fonseca are outdated and riddled with security flaws, analysis has revealed. The law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers hack has shown an “astonishing” disregard for security, according to one expert. Amongst other lapses, Mossack Fonseca has failed to update its Outlook Web Access login…
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Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings
Update: MedStar subsequently denied this report. See Ars Technica’s coverage of their response. Original story: Tami Abdollah reports: The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be…
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available…
The Panama Papers
“A quater (sic) of Iceland´s cabinet members held offshore companies – even the current prime minister. Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is suspected of having been influenced, also by personal interests in his fight against the banking crisis.” A new massive leak was revealed today. A storm is coming By Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer The interrogation…
How to Hack an Election
Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis report: It was just before midnight when Enrique Peña Nieto declared victory as the newly elected president of Mexico. Peña Nieto was a lawyer and a millionaire, from a family of mayors and governors. His wife was a telenovela star. He beamed as he was showered with red,…
UK cops tell suspect to hand over crypto keys in US hacking case
J. M. Porup reports: At a court hearing earlier this month, the UK’s National Crime Authority (NCA) demanded that Lauri Love, a British computer scientist who allegedly broke into US government networks and caused “millions of dollars in damage,” decrypt his laptop and other devices impounded by the NCA in 2013, leading some experts to warn that a…