ICS-CERT urges operators to use searchable databases to prevent attacks

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  infrastructure_protection Searchable, online databases that outside hackers use as a resource to breach equipment on critical infrastructure operating systems, should be used by infrastructure providers to locate and prevent such attacks, said the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Homepage position:  10 read…

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Anonymous controlling all US classified databases?

An alleged member of the loose-knit hacktivist collective Anonymous has boasted about the group being perhaps the most powerful organization on Earth. A hacker known as “Commander X” has claimed that the group has access to every classified database in the US government. Some critics believe that Anonymous is a…

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Cops criticized for ‘misuse’ of databases

By Allison Manning The Columbus Dispatch Police databases such as the Law Enforcement Automated Database System, or LEADS, are supposed to be used solely for law-enforcement purposes — running the license plate of a suspicious driver, for example. But sometimes, like any other trove of information, it's misused. Officers can…

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