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Australian Government Agencies Susceptible to Social-engineering Scams
More than a dozen West Australian government agencies lack adequate systems to detect or respond to a cyber attack, the state’s auditor general revealed in a recent report. The Office of the Auditor General hired a university to launch external attacks on 15 government agencies, including the health, transport, mine and gas departments. While these [...]
Two self-proclaimed Internet trolls were arrested yesterday for allegedly hacking AT&T’s servers and stealing email addresses and other personal information of nearly 120,000 iPad users who accessed the Internet via AT&T’s 3G network, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, Calif., were [...]
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