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DutchNews.nl reports: Three Dutch hackers broke into Donald Trump’s Twitter account shortly before he became president in 2016 by guessing his password was ‘yourefired’, magazine Vrij Nederland reported this week. The hackers, named as Edwin, Mattijs a… Continue reading You’re fired: Dutch hackers broke into Trump’s Twitter account in 2016
Joel Schectman, Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing, and Joseph Menn report: Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russia… Continue reading Russian state hackers suspected in targeting Biden campaign firm – sources
Well, we all expected more breaches because of more people working remotely. Here’s a sad reminder, reported by Emily Davies: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington reported a hack that drained $7.5 million from its endowment fund and funne… Continue reading Jewish Federation of Greater Washington reports $7.5 million hack
Christopher White writes: A clergy abuse victim who participated in the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s independent compensation program for survivors is alleging that the confidentiality of nearly 50 other victims was compromised when the program adm… Continue reading 47 names of clergy abuse victims part of accidental email leak
Lawrence Abrams reports: The SANS cybersecurity training organization has suffered a data breach after one of their employees fell victim to a phishing attack. […] In a notification posted to their site today, SANS states that one of their employ… Continue reading SANS infosec training org suffers data breach after phishing attack
Fahmida Y. Rashid reports: People entering secure facilities—such as those found in military, security, and government agencies—are often asked to hand over their connected devices such as fitness trackers and smartphones. Those devices are stored in s… Continue reading Hacking medical devices to hijack secure facilities
There have been so many Blackbaud-related security notifications that my first thought was that one by Scholarship America would be more of the same. But it’s not. It’s another hack involving Microsoft Office 365 accounts, which has been a… Continue reading Scholarship America notifies individuals of breach
When I saw the ransomware attack on the British Dental Association noted on a Russian-language forum, I didn’t think too much about it. After all, it was just another professional organization or guild organization, right? Maybe I should have pa… Continue reading UK Dentists May Have Had Bank Details Stolen Following Data Breach
Has the ever-present WordPress Admin Bar got you pulling your hair? Wondering how to get rid of it? Well, you’re in luck! You see, we recently had to hide WordPress Admin Bar. We tried and tested nearly 20 different ways to do … Continue reading How to Hide WordPress Admin Bar?
Alaric Dearment reports: Computer hackers “almost certainly” part of Russian intelligence services have a new target: Covid-19 vaccine development efforts. In a report Thursday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and Canada’s Communications Secu… Continue reading Russian hackers suspected in Covid-19 vaccine intellectual property theft, report says