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Report: LAPD Data Breach Exposes 2,500 Officer Records

Data Breach Today

Police Database Includes Email Addresses and Partial Social Security Number The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a possible data breach that appears to have exposed the personal information of about 2,500 full-time officers, as well as records related to 17,500 potential police candidates, according to local news media reports.

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Journalist Matthew Keys is now charged with an attack on a magazine

Security Affairs

Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with an attack on a magazine. Keys was accused of providing Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface access and deface the website of the Los Angeles Times in 2013.

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Lapsus$ Ransomware Group is hiring, it announced recruitment of insiders

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.” – said Christian Lees, CTO of Resecurity, Inc, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company providing managed threat detection and response. Just recently, Lapsus$ group has published speculative information about the next possible victim company to be released and created a poll on their Telegram channel.

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Three Charged for Working With Serial Swatter

Krebs on Security

Around the same time, Stewart, a.k.a. “When the social media star SoaR Ashtronova tweeted about the confusion she felt as she fled the event beneath the whir of police helicopters, Barriss taunted her from one of his Twitter accounts: ‘It got ran, baby girl. Barriss pleaded guilty in Nov.

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My NewCo Los Angeles Picks

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post My NewCo Los Angeles Picks appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. But I was born in LA, I grew up there, and every time I get back, I get homesick for the light, the warm air, the heady nonsense, and – lately – the extraordinary business culture that’s been brewing these past five or ten years.

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A ‘Cyber Event’ disrupted power grid operations in three US states

Security Affairs

The report states that interruptions of electrical system operations were observed in California (Kern County, Los Angeles County), Utah (Salt Lake County), Wyoming (Converse County). The report doesn’t include the name of the utility company that suffered the incident. ” reported MotherBoard.

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Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security

Krebs on Security

The claims come in a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles on behalf of Michael Terpin , who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. According to Terpin, this was the second time in six months someone had hacked his AT&T number. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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