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China's Payback for US Hacker Indictments Begins

2014-05-27 16:22:49| TechNewsWorld

The Department of Justice last week unsealed indictments against five members of the Chinese military who were accused of hacking into the computer systems of U.S. companies to steal everything from trade secrets to confidential corporate correspondence. China's initial response was to deny any wrongdoing and charge that the U.S. had hacked into the systems of Chinese companies.

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Hacker claim about bug in fixed OpenSSL likely a scam

2014-04-28 13:48:18| InfoWorld: Top News

Security experts have expressed doubts about a hacker claim that there's a new vulnerability in the patched version of OpenSSL, the widely used cryptographic library repaired in early April. A group of five hackers writes in a posting on Pastebin that they worked for two weeks to find the bug and developed code to exploit it. They've offered the code for the price of 2.5 bitcoins, around $870.

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Web apps and point-of-sale were leading hacker targets in 2013

2014-04-22 13:47:48| InfoWorld: Top News

Web application attacks, cyber-espionage and point-of-sale intrusions were among the top IT security threats in 2013, according to Verizon's latest annual report on data breach investigations. The leakiest industry by far, in terms of confirmed incidents where data was exposed, was finance with 465 breaches. But the public sector suffered 175 such incidents, retail had 148 and accommodation dealt with 137 breaches.

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First Heartbleed hacker arrested

2014-04-16 22:22:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A 19-year-old Canadian citizen is charged with hacking into the Canada Revenue Agency's website, becoming the first arrest in relation to the Heartbleed security breach.

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