WTNH reports: Ohan Karagozian is a licensed optician who says he filed a claim with the Connecticut Department of Labor for help in getting some back wages from a former employer. He says what he got back in the mail from the department shocked him. “I started looking through the folders and I did not…
Category: U.S.
Anonymous seizes Ku Klux Klan Twitter account over Ferguson threats
Violet Blue reports: Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity’s new campaign, #OpKKK. At 6:31pm PST Anonymous said it has knocked the website belonging to “Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” — the group responsible for the Ferguson threats —…
How to get me to definitely not remove a link. Fsck off, LinkRemovalHelp.com.
If you’re going to hire a firm for SEO optimization or to help with negative reports about your firm, I hope you hire a good one. From my inbox (you may have to read it more than once to really get the full flavor): From: “Link Removal” <[email protected]> Subject: Action Required: Penalized Google Domain Date: Sun, November 16,…
State Department shuts down email system after suspected hacker attack
Matthew Lee of AP reports: The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A senior department official said Sunday that “activity of concern” was detected in the system around the same time as a previously reported incident…
Bits ‘n pieces
Add Alliance Workplace Solutions to the too-long list of companies who have reported laptops with personal information stolen from an employee’s car. Anderson & Murison report that the names, addresses, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers of propsective insureds were exposed online between June 2014 and July 18th due to the installation of an additional firewall (ironic,…
Former Eaton Corp. Employee Indicted For Installing Malware
A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Arturas Samoilovas, age 35, of Stow, Ohio, with one count of transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent…