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Rogue admin jailed after taking down former employer’s network
In what most employers would consider a 'nightmare scenario' an ex-employee took down the network of an ISP and caused them to be offline for a week. This employee was finally sentenced this week to 2 years in prison and fined $26,000 for the incident in June 2010...
Dailymotion hacked, millions of user accounts exposed
More than 87 Million accounts associated with video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen in another "mega-breach". An unknown hacker has extracted all 87.6 million email addresses and usernames from the company's...
Android ransomware spreads further, with new methods in its toolbox
Ransomware seems to have maintained its attractiveness among cybercriminals, steadily growing on multiple operating system platforms – including mobile since 2014. Android users have been targeted by various versions of this extorting malware, most frequently by the...
Loose Lips Sink Careers, Lives and Possibly a Company?
We first met the PacketSled name through a mutual CyberSecurity professional - we watched them as they progressed from startup to company making moves into the area of deep packet inspection and traffic analysis areas, and watched with interest as the company made...
‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled
In an 'unprecedented global law enforcement response' to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe have today announced that they have dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting...
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More than 1M Android Phones Infected With Googlian Malware
A new variant of a well-known malware program called 'Googlian' has infected more than one million accounts via phones that run older versions of Google's Android operating system, mostly outside the U.S., according to security firm Check Point. The android malware...
Free rides for San Fran Muni customers after apparent computer hack
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency gave customers free rides on its Metro light-rail service all day Saturday, a precaution they took after an apparent hack of the agency’s computer system. Pink “Out of Service” messages shone from the ticket machines...
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Crysis Ramsomware Decryption Tool Released by ESET
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
Crysis Ramsomware Decryption Tools Released by ESET
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
US Navy Data Breach – 130,000 current and former sailors victims of data breach
More than 130,000 current and former sailors have fallen victim to a data breach, the Navy announced on Wednesday. According to a news release, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services notified the Navy on Oct. 27 that one of the company's laptops operated by an employee...
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Michigan State University experiences data breach
Michigan State University has experienced a data breach, which it said took place on November 13th. It is believed that 'only 449' people are thought to have been compromised, after an unauthorized party gained access to its database (which contains over 400,000...
UK Mobile Provider Three Suffers a Major Data Breach
UK mobile company 'Three' has become the latest victim of a major data breach, with up-to six million customers reported possibly affected. Data that has been accessed includes names, phone numbers, addresses and birth dates. Three said that fraudsters were able to...
Adobe fined $1 million for 2013 data breach
The financial repercussions of a data breach have been highlighted by the $1 million fine handed out to Adobe Systems for a 2013 security incident. Roy Cooper, attorney general of North Carolina, said that businesses and government “must do more” to protect sensitive...
Brewing Up CyberSecurity Solutions at Big Beaver Brewing Co., Loveland CO – November 15th, 2016
Yesterday we held the first of many CyberSecurity education events. We chose Big Beaver Brewing Company in Loveland as the location because Loveland sits well between the cities of Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, Johnstown, Berthoud and Longmont. In attendance we...
Massive DDoS attack in Liberia wipes most of country offline
Liberia was hit by a massive DDoS attack, which succeeded in taking most of the country offline. It was revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October and the attack on...
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