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2000 companies hacked in Georgia. TV channels, government institutions and banks shut down

In an unprecedented event, nearly 2,000 websites in Georgia were hit by a massive cyberattack. According to digital forensics specialists, the organizations most affected include government institutions, digital media platforms and broadcasting companies and even some financial institutions. It all started this Monday morning, with reports of some service failures from some Georgian government websites. […]

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Data breach at Georgia Tech university compromise millions of records

According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), students, professors and administrative staff of Georgia Tech, a university recognized internationally for its computer science program, have been victims of a data breach incident that would have compromised around 1.3 million of company records. Georgia Tech recently revealed the […]

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Georgia Senate Passes Bill That Penalizes Unauthorized Pen-Tests

A bill was passed yesterday by the state of Georgia that causes any unauthorized access to a computer to be considered “Unauthorized Computer Access” and “shall be punished for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature”.  This bill amends the Georgia code, which originally only considered unauthorized access with malicious intent to be a […]

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Prison Guards Quit Job After Beaten Inmate Photo Went Viral on Facebook

Two officers from Georgia’s correction facility had to resign when the picture of a beaten teen inmate having a leash bent around his neck was posted online on Facebook seemingly with a contraband mobile phone. According to authorities, two prisoners from the Al Burruss Correctional Training Centre involved in the March 27 incident were transferred […]

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