He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale.
Tag Archives: Government security
Google ramps up G Suite protections against government-backed attacks
Security alerts become opt-out by default from 10 October because so few admins opted in.
Seven Russian cyberspies indicted for hacking, wire fraud, ID theft
“Bungling” Russian GRU operatives picked up by Dutch police, linked to OPCW and World Anti-Doping Agency hacks.
Cop charged with selling phone tracking service on dark web
A French police officer has been charged with using police intelligence data to power a mobile phone tracking service sold via the dark web.
NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work.
Woman hijacked CCTV cameras days before Trump inauguration
The ransomware attack on DC’s outdoor surveillance cameras came just a few days before the 2017 inauguration of President Trump.
US military given the power to hack back/defend forward
The new preventative cybersecurity powers include potentially acting against countries considered friendly toward the US – a risky move, some say.
FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered.
How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking
The social network is trying to protect candidates, elected officials and their staff from “hackers and foreign adversaries”.
Hackers selling research phished from universities on WhatsApp
Millions of documents have been stolen from top UK universities and are being sold over WhatsApp for as little as £2.