June 13, 2017

When sysadmins attack: how to delete an entire company

Nothing can stand in the way of malice and incompetence

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May 12, 2017

Man who padded timesheets fined $318,000 for trashing boss’s servers

His strategy: pad the payroll program with extra hours, in black letters, on a black background, in 1-pt type, then demolish the server.

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February 23, 2017

Healthcare data breaches ‘mostly caused by insiders’

With an average of one data breach a day and patchy security practises, healthcare organizations are sitting targets for hackers

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February 10, 2017

NSA contractor charged with stealing thousands of top-secret documents

Documents allegedly stolen include many from the CIA and the NSA, say prosecutors

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September 19, 2016

Mooncake thieves fired from Alibaba’s infosec department

Mooncakes: they're like Christmas fruitcakes, except that the recipients actually eat them.

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June 10, 2016

DIY store’s poisoned search engine returns nasty results

Good luck searching for a nail on the site of Castorama, the French DIY retailer: results include something about Satan's ungodly glory.

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July 08, 2015

Judge overturns conviction of Goldman Sachs programmer for stealing code

Sergey Aleynikov has long claimed that the code was open source and that he never shared it with anybody. Did he get off on a technicality?

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