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Anonymous hits New Zealand Foreign Minister's email

Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-02-15 07:37
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Online activist group Anonymous hacked New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully's private email account and used it to send messages mocking him, it was reported Wednesday.
 
The group breached McCully's email account last April after New Zealand passed laws cracking down on illegal file-sharing and threatening to disconnect repeat offenders from the Internet, the Dominion Post reported.
 

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Megaupload founder awaiting extradition

Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-01-24 19:21
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Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom is awaiting extradition to the US after the country requested New Zealand authorities detain him, pending a formal extradition request.

Dotcom, a dual citizen of Germany and Finland who changed his name from Schmitz, was detained on charges of copyright infringement conspiracy, according to Bloomberg.

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NZ 'lagging behind US and UK' in data security

Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-01-11 23:32
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A leading data security assessment company says that New Zealand businesses are becoming "soft targets" for malicious hackers because they are lagging significantly behind the US and UK in achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) introduced by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

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