Internet in a Suitcase

Interesting read about how the U.S. is funding secret internet access for communications in and out of countries when their governments shut the internet down.

U.S. Funding Secret Internet Access for Dissidents Abroad

My favorite is a picture of the "Internet in a Suitcase"....

Hacked - Next Up: IMF

 Reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was breached.  This story though has mentions of "nation state" .......  Any guesses on where the that software might have come from?

IMF hit by '"very major" cyber security attack
Source: BBC

Computer tech tricked women into taking laptops into bathroom - AP

What were these people thinking?  Well they're Mac users afterall... :)  You can't make this stuff up.

Fullerton, Calif. • A Southern California computer repairman suspected of installing spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes was arrested Wednesday at his home, police said.

Police began investigating when a Fullerton resident complained about suspicious messages appearing on his daughter’s computer last year. Trevor Harwell installed software that took control of computer webcams on his clients’ Mac laptops, Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said. He was released later Wednesday after posting $50,000 bond, Goodrich said.

The software sent fake error messages telling users to “fix their internal sensor soon,” and “try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor,” Goodrich said.

The error message prompted some victims to take their laptops into the bathroom with them when they showered, he said.

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LulzSec Compromises Infragard

Appears that LulzSec compromised the Atlanta Chapter of Infragard's site...

LulzSec Infragard Hack

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia : The Hacker News

From: The Hacker News

Google spilled the details on Wednesday via its official blog:
Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently     uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists.
The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users’ emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples’ forwarding and delegation settings.


Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia : The Hacker News