Hackers Revamp Playboy, Mistake NASA for NSA
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Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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Playboy’s college party guide gets an unrequested redesign
A feminist group is suspected of hacking the magazine’s website to promote consensual sex.
Belgium telco bugged, and virus’s fingerprints point to NSA
Reports say the complexity of the code suggests the entity that hacked into Belgacom’s systems was the National Security Agency or one of its partners.
Brazilian hacktivists mistake NASA for NSA
Protesters angry that the U.S. intelligence agency allegedly hacked Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's emails picked the wrong target for their retaliation.
Teen collected $50,000 a month managing sophisticated cybercrime ring
Police cut off power to the 19-year-old youth’s neighborhood to prevent the loss of potential evidence on his computers.
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