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19 Feb

Winter #Olympics IT #provider #Atos may have been #breached months before #Games

Source: National Cyber Security News Atos, the cloud provider to the Winter Olympics, likely had its computer systems penetrated late last year by the hackers who carried out a cyberattack during the opening ceremony. The report from CyberScoop, based on...
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28 Oct

Florida #man gets 16 months over #bitcoin bank #hacker scheme

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans NEW YORK – A Florida software engineer was sentenced to 16 months in prison for helping run an illegal Bitcoin exchange suspected of laundering money for a group of hackers who...
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12 Oct

Buggy Microsoft Outlook Sending Encrypted S/MIME Emails With Plaintext Copy For Months

Beware, If you are using S/MIME protocol over Microsoft Outlook to encrypt your email communication, you need to watch out. From at least last 6 months, your messages were being sent in both encrypted and unencrypted forms, exposing all your...
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2 Oct

If I’ve been dating someone for, say, five months, and ……

If I’ve been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don’t think it would be worth it. I’m not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance. Avan Jogia The post If...
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28 Sep

Hackers Exploiting Microsoft Servers to Mine Monero – Makes $63,000 In 3 Months

Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment as it takes a monstrous amount of computing power, and thus hackers have started using malware that steals computing resources of computers it hijacks to make lots of dollars in digital currency. Security...
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4 Aug

Hacker Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Spreading Linux Malware

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in fraudulent payments has been imprisoned for 46 months (nearly four years) in a United States’ federal prison. 41-year-old Maxim Senakh, of Velikii Novgorod,...
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5 Jun

Man Jailed 6 Months for Refusing to Give Police his iPhone Passcode

Remember Ramona Fricosu? A Colorado woman was ordered to unlock her encrypted Toshiba laptop while the FBI was investigating alleged mortgage fraud in 2012, but she declined to decrypt the laptop saying that she did not remember the password. Later...
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27 May

TOYBOY TROUBLES Heartbreak for mum-of-four, 42, who fell pregnant TWO MONTHS into dating a guy 15 years her junior

A 42-YEAR-old woman who fell pregnant just two months into dating her toyboy lover has told of the torment she experienced after their split. Deborah Hodge, from south London, met Daniel, who was then 24, at a poetry reading night...
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25 May

Ukranian who pleaded guilty in hacking scheme gets 30 months in prison

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Ukrainian sentenced in hacking scheme A Ukrainian hacker involved in an international scheme that used stolen unpublished news releases to make about $30 million in profits was sentenced Monday to 30...
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5 May

50% malware exploits in India occurred in the last 3 months of 2016: Report

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Indian firms were highly vulnerable to cyber attacks in the period following demonetisation with close to 50% of the attacks happening in the last three months of 2016, a report published...
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