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IN: Man nabbed for data theft

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

S Ahmed Ali reports: MUMBAI: A private data consultancy firm employee, who quit the job after allegedly selling data to a rival company for money, was arrested by sleuths of the Mumbai Cyber cell on Thursday. Sagar Deepak More, 28, a data executive with a US-based company in Mumbai, was arrested under the Information Technology…

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Miley Cyrus hacker pleads guilty to federal charges

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

Brandon Gee reports: A 21-year-old who once bragged of hacking Miley Cyrus’ email and MySpace accounts told a federal judge today that he is addicted to the Internet and pleaded guilty to charges of credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly was not charged for hacking Cyrus’ accounts and publishing racy photos he found in…

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PA: Former TD Bank worker indicted in fraud scheme that included county branches

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

Jeannie O’Sullivan reports: A federal grand jury has indicted a former TD Bank employee for her alleged role in a scheme involving fraudulent withdrawals totaling nearly $70,000 from branches in Burlington and Camden counties between October and February. Jennell Digby, 27, of Philadelphia, was charged with conspiracy, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to…

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#AntiSec/Anonymous claims to have compromised 77 law enforcement-related web sites and acquired personal information of 7,000 officers

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

The Hacker News reports that #AntiSec has attacked 77 law enforcement-related web sites.  According to a statement posted yesterday on Pastebin by AnonymousIRC: Time for us to conduct a raid of our own. In retaliation to the unjust persecution of dozens of suspected Anonymous “members”, we attacked over 70 US law enforcement institutions defacing their websites and…

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A costly reminder that encrypting a laptop doesn’t help if you don’t shut down the laptop

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

Add Tufts University to the list of educational institutions reporting a breach this year. On July 7, the university notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop used by a professor conducting research at Massachusetts General Hospital also contained a file with information on applicants to Tufts’ Graduate School of Arts and Science…

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Widespread malware attack affects some Ascensus clients

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

Ascensus Inc.  notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office this week that  on April 15, they were notified by federal investigators that computers on their network had been infected by a “new malware virus” that had infected a lot of companies’ computers.  A forensic examination revealed that the malware had created files containing some individuals’…

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