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Johannesburg’s network shut down after second attack in 3 months

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Johannesburg City Hall

Enlarge / Johannesburg City Hall (credit: Chris Eason)

Johannesburg, the biggest city in South Africa and the 26th largest city worldwide, has shut down its website, billing and electronic services after being hit by a serious network attack, the second one in three months, municipality officials said.

A group calling itself Shadow Kill Hackers took to Twitter to take credit for the attack, claiming it took Johannesburg’s “sensitive finance data offline.” The group is demanding 4 Bitcoins, valued at about $ 32,000 US, for the safe return of the data.

A Johannesburg spokesman said the city took down the site after it detected a breach and that so far no formal ransom demands had been made. He also played down the extent of the breach.

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AT&T hits online TV customers with second big price increase this year

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Star Wars-themed illustration of the AT&T and DirecTV logos.

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AT&T is rolling out another batch of price increases for AT&T TV Now, the online streaming service formerly known as DirecTV Now.

The AT&T TV Now “Plus” package that contains 45 channels and costs $ 50 a month will rise to $ 65, AT&T told Ars. Customers on some other plans will get a $ 10 increase, AT&T said. That means the “Max” plan with 60 channels will go from $ 70 to $ 80, but plans with more channels that range in price from $ 86 to $ 135 will stay at the current prices, AT&T told us.

Notices of the increases are being sent to existing customers, so the price hikes will affect both new and existing users.

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Hijacking the Second Amendment – Consortium News

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Hijacking the Second Amendment  Consortium News

The gun lobby has hijacked the Second Amendment, which was intended for citizen militias to provide domestic “security” without a standing army.

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How a grim Eurovision Song Contest cyber attack was prevented at last second – 9News

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How a grim Eurovision Song Contest cyber attack was prevented at last second  9News

As millions of people around the world tuned into this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Tel Aviv, little did they know they were within one second of …

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