Interior Ministry: Hackers’ attack against Russian banks in 2015 affected Visa, MasterCard

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     MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. An attack against the Russian banking system made by hackers last year compromised Visa and MasterCard international payment systems, representative of the Cybercrime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry Alexander Vurasko said on Thursday.      “The specificity of that [hackers’] ring was that they managed to compromise the…

Health Ministry website reopens

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     The website of Japan’s health ministry has reopened after being inaccessible for more than 15 hours.      The website went down at around 9:30 on Monday evening. It resumed service at 12:48 PM on Tuesday.      A person claiming to be a member of the international hacker group Anonymous posted a…

Japan’s health ministry website downed

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The website of Japan’s health ministry has been disrupted since Monday night.      Ministry officials say the website became inaccessible at around 9:30 PM.      They say they were also prevented from sending or receiving e-mails through their system for about 4 hours through early Tuesday morning.      About 30 minutes after…

Police investigating Myanmar links to website hackers

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Police Tuesday were investigating whether hackers who took over several police websites Tuesday acted in response to the Koh Tao murders court decision that has been widely protested in Myanmar. At least five sites had their home pages replaced with a black-and-white message saying “Failed Law, We want Justice”, an apparent reference to the death…