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Russian hacker pays 10 mln rbls compensation to Royal Bank of Scotland

"Russian hacker Viktor Pleshchuk, who broke into the security system of the Royal Bank of Scotland's RBS WorldPay service, has paid 10 million rubles ($330,000) in compensation to the lender, local news portal Fontanka.ru quoted an official of a local auction house, which sold Pleshchuk's property, as saying on Monday." Source: Russian hacker pays 10 mln rbls compensation to Royal Bank of Scotland | News | RIA Novosti ›
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Stolen information worth £300m recovered by GCHQ

"William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said the agency had joined forces with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to obtain the information as part of the ongoing cyber war against foreign states and criminals. A team of experts at GCHQ is understood to be working with the military to develop internet tools to strike back if states attack infrastructure ›
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Scotland Yard Arrests LulzSec Hacker 'Kayla'

"Scotland Yard has arrested two men who together used the online pseudonym "Kalya" and were central figures in the notorious hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec." Source: Scotland Yard Arrests LulzSec Hacker 'Kayla' | FoxNews.com ›
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China Issues Legal Interpretation to Tighten Grip on Hacking

"China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Monday jointly issued a legal interpretation that aims to fight hacking and other Internet crimes more aggressively. According to a statement released jointly by the SPC and SPP, a crime endangering information network security poses a threat not only to network security but ›
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Investigation reveals widespread insider hacking at immigration agency

"A yearlong probe into computer fraud at an immigration application processing center uncovered multiple incidents of internal hacking where staff accessed management-level emails and other confidential files, according to Homeland Security Department interviews, network analyses and internal emails obtained by N ›
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Hack attack pushes Bitcoin to the brink

"Bitcoin, an online currency beloved of libertarians and technophiles, which had been threatening to break into the mainstream, was facing the worst crisis of its two-year existence last night after hackers brought down its biggest exchange. The attack, an apparent attempt to steal the contents of users' online accounts and convert them into real money, is the latest in a ›
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Customer's personal information stolen from Sega database

"Hackers have stolen personal information from over 1.2 million customers of the Japanese gaming company SEGA, according to a company statement. The breach occurred Friday and targeted user data from subsidiary "SEGA Pass", which is operated by Britain-based SEGA Europe Limited (SEL)." Source: Customer's personal information stolen from Sega database – ›
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New Malware Steals Your Bitcoin

"In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit, is fairly simple: it targets Windows machines and zeroes in on the standar ›
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Turkey Arrests 32 'Anonymous' Members

"Officials in Turkey have arrested 32 members of clandestine Web group Anonymous for their alleged involvement in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Turkish government Web sites. Suspects were arrested in a dozen Turkish cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, according to state-run news agency, Anatolia. Anonymous announced Friday that it had ›
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Japan orders Sony to improve data security

" Sony was told by the Japanese government on Friday to strengthen its data security as the electronics and entertainment giant reels from a series of attacks by hackers. The industry ministry officially instructed Sony to implement its own plan to improve management and protection of key information. 'This is a serious case, considering the nature of the ›
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Hacker pleads guilty over $36m card fraud

"In court filings, Rogelio Hackett says that since at least 2002 he has been hacking into business computer networks and downloading credit card databases as well as buying information from other crooks through online carding forums. He also admits selling information, manufacturing and selling counterfeit cards, and buying gift cards and merchandise with s ›
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Federal Reserve Hacker Steals 400,000 Credit Card Numbers

"A Malaysian man hacked his way into the Federal Reserve Bank's computers in Cleveland and also had more than 400,000 stolen credit card numbers when Secret Service agents finally caught up with him, federal prosecutors said. Lin Mun Poo was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport last month as he traveled to New York for a meeting with other hackers and to all ›
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Spam falls after giant botnet takedowns

"Spam volumes fell in the third quarter thanks to some massive botnets being shut down, but the problem remains severe. Both Symantec and Kaspersky have noted the spam decline, with the former finding October volumes went down 47 per cent when compared to August. Kaspersky figures showed a decline in the third quarter when compared to the previous period, with the level ›