Thousands of San Diego area students and teachers may be on Christmas break, but that didn’t stop the school district from announcing a major data hack Friday.
San Diego Unified School District, the second largest school district in California, said …
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National Republican Congressional Committee emails hacked during 2018 campaign
It turns out that hackers are an equal opportunity bunch.
During the lead up to the 2016 U.S. election, much ado was made of the hack of the Democratic National Committee and subsequent publishing of stolen emails.
Now, thanks to a report…
Not even your Dunkin’ Donuts Perks account is safe from hackers
What is this world coming to.
In a troubling sign of these cybercrime-friendly times, it turns out that not even your Dunkin’ Donuts Perks account is safe from hackers. And, as these things tend to go, that could have broad ramifications for mu…
How to start forging a career in IT and cybersecurity
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The hackers getting paid to keep the internet safe
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It had taken a month of work, but Jesse Kinser had finally hit the jackpot. The security researcher had managed to pull off quite a feat — stealing the source code for more than 10,000 different websites, including a big four consulting company — and the ramifications of her find were staggering.
But contrary to many people’s perceptions of shadowy hackers, her next move wasn’t trading the data on the dark web, or crafting exploits to sell to the highest bidder. Rather, she was faced with a different sort of daunting task: developing a responsible disclosure process to notify the thousands of vulnerable companies she’d just pwned. That’s right, after accessing all that code, her next job was to let the victims know exactly how she’d done it — and how they could stop someone with a different set of moral guideposts from doing the same. Read more…
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People are definitely spending bitcoin, just maybe not the kind of people proponents of cryptocurrency adoption had in mind.
A lengthy indictment from the Justice Department dropped today, accusing seven Russian intelligence officers of conspiring to hack anti-doping agencies around the world in retaliation for their efforts to expose Russian athletic doping. And, at least according to the US officials, the GRU hacking group mined bitcoin to fund its efforts.
“The pool of bitcoin generated from the GRU’s mining activity was used, for example, to pay a United States-based company to register the [phishing] domain wada-arna.org through a payment processing company located in the United States,” reads the indictment. “The conspirators used the same funding structure—and in some cases, the very same pool of funds—to purchase key accounts, servers, and domains used in their anti-doping related hacking activity.” Read more…
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Twitter widens its view of bad actors to fight election fiddlers
Twitter has announced more changes to its rules to try to make it harder for people to use its platform to spread politically charged disinformation and thereby erode democratic processes. In an update on its “elections integrity work” yesterday, the company flagged several new changes to the Twitter Rules which it said are intended to provide “clearer […]
View More Twitter widens its view of bad actors to fight election fiddlersRansomware attack hits Port of San Diego
Ransomware is not going anywhere. As if we needed a reminder.
The Port of San Diego confirmed today in a press release that it was the victim of a cyberattack that affected several important computer systems and left port officials struggling t…
Your Tesla is probably vulnerable to hackers, but there’s an easy fix
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Hackers can likely quickly and easily steal your Tesla Model S, but this high-tech heist comes with a catch: There’s a simple way to prevent it.
Researchers claim to have found a method to essentially clone the wireless key fobs Tesla owners use to unlock and start their cars — thus allowing them to drive away with your ride — with only around $600 worth of equipment. Oh yeah, and the encryption built into the keys as a protection against this very attack barely even offers a speed bump.
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British Airways was hacked, and its customers are paying the price
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To Fly. To Serve. To have your customers’ financial information stolen by unidentified hackers.
British Airways today announced it was the victim of a data breach in which the “personal and financial details” of customers were stolenThe Guardian reports that 380,000 “payment cards” were affected.
So who exactly are those hundreds of thousands of victims? According to the airline, customers using the BA website or mobile app to make “bookings” between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5 are the ones who should be nervously checking their credit card statements. Read more…
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North Korean spy charged with hacking Sony
So it turns out that maybe Seth Rogen isn’t the best person to look to on matters of cybersecurity.
The Justice Department today officially charged an alleged North Korean spy with the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, providing in the …
Dozens of Vegas slots went offline simultaneously during a hacker convention
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The casino is “pretty certain” it wasn’t hacked.
The annual DEF CON hacking convention returned once again to Las Vegas this weekend, and with it came the typical good-natured mischief that’s bound to happen when thousands of cybersecurity professionals congregate in one spot. Early Saturday morning at the Linq casino, however, looked to be something else entirely.
It was around 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. and DEF CON attendee Matt Anderson was hanging out at the Linq — a casino just across the street from Caesars Palace, the convention’s host — when it happened: Dozens of slot machines went down, all at once. Read more…
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