From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, an update on a previously disclosed prosecution: An Akron man was sentenced to six years in prison for launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department. James Robinson, 33, previously pleaded guilty…
Physical and cyber threats collide in data theft incidents at N.J. businesses
Joel Griffin reports: For years, cybersecurity experts have warned about the lengths that criminals will go to in gaining access to the network of their intended victim, including exploiting flaws in an organization’s physical security program to achieve their goals. Some security practitioners brushed aside these concerns convinced that these so-called “hackers,” often portrayed as…
UK public sector IT chiefs shrug off breach threats: The data we hold isn’t that important
Gareth Corfield reports: Half of UK public sector IT chiefs think the data they’re responsible for protecting is less valuable than private sector information, according to a survey by antivirus firm Sophos. Just over 50 per cent of 420 senior managers quizzed by Sophos agreed with the statement: “The data held by my organisation is…
Arron Banks’s private Twitter messages leaked by hacker
Jim Waterson reports: Arron Banks’s Twitter account has been hacked and the entire private message history of the Leave.EU founder uploaded to the internet, in what appears to be a targeted attack that has been reported to the police. The founder of the pro-Brexit campaign group, who has been the subject of questions about the source of…
Ransomware Bites 400 Veterinary Hospitals
Brian Krebs reports: National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month that affected more than half of those properties, separating many veterinary practices from their patient records, payment systems and practice management software. NVA…
Activist Leaks Files From a Data Broker for Demoing its Software With ICE
Joseph Cox reports: To protest a data broker giving trial accounts of their product to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, a source has provided Motherboard with internal files of Sayari, a company that collects and resells access to data on citizens from more than a hundred different countries. Sayari’s data banks include physical addresses, email…