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RedHack leaks reveal the rise of Turkey’s pro-government Twitter trolls

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Dissent

Efe Kerem Sozeri reports: Leaked emails from the Turkish government provide new details of how Turkey’s pro-government Twitter troll army targets the opposition and silences media criticism in the media. Last Friday, RedHack, a Marxist hacker group, claimed to have hacked personal email accounts of Turkey’s Energy Minister and President Erdoğan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak. They threatened to leak data if Turkey…

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FTC denies LabMD’s application for a stay of Commission’s Final Order

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

In what is likely to infuriate those who believe that the Federal Trade Commission has already abused its authority in its relentless enforcement action against a small cancer-detecting laboratory, the FTC has denied LabMD’s application for a stay of their final order  while LabMD appeals to a federal court. In explaining its denial, the Commission said it looked at four…

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InfoArmor: Yahoo Data Breach Investigation

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

Well, it seems InfoArmor is calling b.s. on claims that Yahoo! was hacked by state actors.  The overview from their report: Yahoo was compromised in 2014 by a group of professional blackhats who were hired to compromise customer databases from a variety of different targeted organizations. Some of their initial targets, which occurred in 2012…

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NJ Spine Center saw no other option but to pay ransom

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dissent

Oof. This notification from the New Jersey Spine Center, sent to patients on September 22, describes a real disaster where not only essential patient files and credit card information were locked up, but their most recent backup was too.  No wonder they paid the ransom. On July 27, 2016, our computer systems were attacked by a malware…

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As we speak, teen social site is leaking millions of plaintext passwords

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: A social hangout website for teenage girls has sprung a leak that’s exposing plaintext passwords protecting as many as 5.5 million user accounts. As this post went live, all attempts to get the leak plugged had failed. Operators of i-Dressup didn’t respond to messages sent by Ars informing them that a hacker has already…

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Oh, how America just loves scandals involving the British royalty

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Dissent

Everyone who knows me knows that I generally don’t wade into the muck and mire of celebrity lives or even hacks of celebrities’ iCloud accounts. I’m staunchly on record that even celebrities have a right to privacy. Over the weekend, though, I wound up interviewing a UK man who had involvement in selling Pippa Middleton’s hacked iCloud…

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