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Hackers Steal Thousands Of Files From M&A Giant Evercore

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Dissent

Tyler Durden reports: We break from tonight’s episode of “Powell in turmoil” to let you know that an “unknown” hacker appears to have inside info on a substantial portion of the global pipeline of upcoming M&A deals. According to The Times, thousands of “sensitive documents” have been stolen by hackers in a cyber-attack on M&A and…

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How Wellcome Trust Executives Got Whaled By Oldest Trick In The Fraud Playbook

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Dissent

Davey Winder writes: It hasn’t been the greatest week for the non-profit sector with the revelation that two well-known charities have fallen victim to less than charitable cyber con-artists. In the same week that the Save the Children Federation confirmed it had been scammed out of $1 million by email fraudsters, so the Wellcome Trust…

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Data Breach Might Impact 500,000 San Diego Unified School District Students, Former Students, and Some Staff

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Dissent

Steven Luke and R. Stickney report: San Diego Unified School District officials are informing parents and former students of a large data breach. Personal data including Social Security numbers from as many as 500,000 students was compromised or possibly stolen, officials say. The breach dating back to January 2018 was uncovered in October by district IT employees who…

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Man pleads guilty to phishing scheme that victimized Connecticut school employees

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Dissent

A 36-year-old Nigerian citizen pleaded guilty Thursday before a federal judge to a conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to obtain the personal identifying information of school employees, including some at Sacred Heart Academy in Hamden. Olukayode Ibrahim Lawal, last living in Smyrna, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New…

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Hackers bypass two-factor authentication “at scale”

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

Sam Tidmarsh reports: Multiple credentials phishing campaigns targeting human rights activists and journalists across the Middle East and North Africa have been disclosed by Amnesty International. Credentials phishing deploys imitations of websites, wherein a login prompt lures a victim into entering their personal details, which are then transmitted to the attacking party. In this case,…

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Government Hackers Assault Hundreds Of ‘Secure’ Google Accounts With Evil Phishes

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

Thomas Brewster reports: Over at least the last two years, a group of government hackers has been targeting supposedly secured email services from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Protonmail and Tutanota. Most targets are in the Middle East and Africa and, though it remains unclear just where the hackers themselves hail from, the attacks appear…

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