Chennai: While England are facing an uphill task to save the fifth and final Test against India in Chennai on Tuesday, the team was hit by a security breach where all the details about the police protection and players’ stay were let out in the open. The data was found on a public computer in a…
Hackers hit Thai sites to protest restrictive internet law
AP reports: Hackers saying they are protesting the passage of a bill restricting internet freedom have been attacking Thai government computer servers, temporarily disabling public access and reportedly copying restricted documents. A Facebook group called for people to deny access to government sites by repeatedly reloading them, a tactic that apparently forced the Defense Ministry…
In: Ex-staffers of private firm booked for data theft
TNN reports: A city-based customer care firm has alleged that two of its former employees stole sensitive information while employed by them, and used it to start a rival customer care firm in Dehradun. In a complaint filed at Udyog Vihar police station on Saturday, Manoj Pandey, senior vice-president of Quatrro Global Services, said the accused, Pramod Mamgain and Vikas…
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is sending emails to users about a Lynda.com data breach
Neowin reports: LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that “an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed.” The company says that there is no evidence to support the thought that passwords were included…
Bleacher Reports Suffers Data Breach as “Unauthorized Party” Accesses User Data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sports news portal Bleacher Report announced today a security breach that affected readers that signed up for accounts on the site. At the time of writing the number of affected users isn’t known, and a request for comment from Bleeping Computer was not returned at the time of publishing. According to an…
DHS responds to hacking accusations from Georgia
There’s a follow-up to a headline-grabbing story earlier this month in which the State of Georgia accused the Department of Homeland Security of hacking its election database. Joe Uchill reports: DHS officials told reporters on a conference call Friday that the attempted entry came from an employee at the state’s Federal Law Enforcement Training…