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Justice Department indicts Iran hackers in massive financial cyberattack

March 24, 2016/in Mobile Security

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted seven Iranian hackers in connection with cyberattacks on U.S. banks, the New York Stock Exchange, AT&T and a water facility in New York.

The seven live outside the U.S. and it’s questionable whether they will ever be apprehended and tried, according to reports by Reuters, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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Department of Justice Charges Apple iCloud Hacker

March 20, 2016/in Computer Security

Apple is vindicated as it turns out the celebrity accounts were compromised by a phishing attack and not a breach of Apple’s data center. In September 2014, news first broke that somehow attackers were able to get access to private pictures of a number of …
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PM’s Department didn’t buy spyware, minister says – Malay Mail Online

November 24, 2015/in Internet Security

Malay Mail Online

PM's Department didn't buy spyware, minister says
Malay Mail Online
The Barisan Nasional government's purported purchase of spyware is not new as Putrajaya was reported back in 2013 as using another surveillance software, known as FinSpy, that security researchers believed was more likely used against political targets …

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Massachusetts police department pays $500 CryptoLocker ransom

April 8, 2015/in Mobile Security

A Massachusetts police department paid $ 500 to free up town files that had been encrypted by CryptoLocker, the ransomware that locks down hard drives until the owners pay up.

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Police in Tewksbury, Mass., came up with the ransom after four or five days when they realized they could not break the encryption and needed the attackers to send them the private key in order to access the data.

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