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In: BSNL site hacked

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Dissent

R. Dinakaran reports: BSNL’s Telecommunications Journal website has been hacked by AnonOpsIndia. The ‘Anonymous’ group that describes itself as “#OpIndia | Expect Us! ~ Anonymous #Hacktivists” in its Twitter handle, has added one more page to the journal website – http://tj.bsnl.co.in/tjeditions/NOV14/anonops.html – listing its demands to the Central Government. The group has posted a message on…

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Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi password with your friends’ friends

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Dissent

Simon Rockman reports: A Windows 10 feature, Wi-Fi Sense, smells like a significant security risk: it shares access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks with the user’s contacts. So giving a wireless password to one person grants access to everyone who knows them. […] Wi-Fi Sense doesn’t reveal the password to your family, friends, acquaintances, and the chap…

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TeamGhostShell is back… with over 400 databases dumped

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Dissent

Lee J. writes: If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. […] So far there has been 444 different databases dumped from sites and sub-domains mostly being education and government  based….

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AFGE files Class Action Lawsuit against OPM Officials over Data Breach

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Dissent

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has filed a class action complaint with a demand for jury trial against the Office of Personnel Management, Director Katherine Archuleta and Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour about one of the most devastating cyberattacks in U.S. history that resulted in potentially 18 million current and former federal employees’ personal and security files being compromised….

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OPM Temporarily Shuts Down Personnel Information Database as Protective Step

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Dissent

AP reports: The federal personnel agency whose records were plundered by hackers linked to China announced on Monday the temporary shutdown of a massive database used to update and store background investigation records after newly discovering a flaw that left the system vulnerable to additional breaches. There is no evidence the vulnerability has been exploited…

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FBI Cyber Division Bulletin on Tools Reportedly Used by OPM Hackers

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Dissent

Public Intelligence reports: The following bulletin was released to private industry partners June 5, 2015.  According to an article from Reuters, one of the remote access tools (RAT) described in the bulletin, called Sakula, is directly linked to the hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that was disclosed earlier this month.  Other publications have directly…

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