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A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s

December 19, 2019 admin ashley madison, Ashley Madison hack, awareness, badrabbit, cambridge analytica, cryptolocker, cryptolocker ransomware, Data Privacy, Edward Snowden, emotet, Exploits, Facebook, Hacktivism, Mat Honan, NotPetya, NSA, nsa spying, nsa surveillance, NSA tools, playstation breach, playstation hack, ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk Ransomware, security fails, Shadow Brokers, social media, Sony, sony pictures hack, SURVEILLANCE, target breach, target hack, trickbot, triple threat, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:03:33 +0000

As the 2010s come to a close, we take a snarky walk down memory lane, listing the craziest, most impactful, or simply just awful cybersecurity fails of the decade.

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Emotet malspam campaign uses Snowden’s new book as lure

September 23, 2019 admin Botnet, botnets, Edward Snowden, emotet, macros, malspam, permanent record, Snowden, spam, whistleblowers, Word exploits

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:40:44 +0000

Emotet starts a new week of malicious spam by promising a copy of Edward Snowden’s new book.

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Botnets

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Max Schrems: lawyer, regulator, international man of privacy

February 25, 2019 admin Austria, Brave, California Consumer Privacy Act, CNIL, Compliance, Court of Justice for the European Union, Data Protection Directive, DPC, Edward Snowden, Europe v. Facebook, European Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, European Commission, Facebook, GDPR, GDPR fine, GDPR penalty, GDPR violation, General Data Protection Regulation, google, Information Commissioner's Office, Ireland, Irish Data Protection Commissioner, mark zuckerberg, mass surveillance, Maximilian Schrems, None of Your Business, noyb, NSA, PRISM, privacy, Privacy International, Safe Harbor, Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, Santa Clara University School of Law, Schrems, Security world, Vienna

Credit to Author: davidruiz| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Almost 10 years ago, privacy advocate Max Schrems and the European Union began separate efforts to change the way the world thinks about online privacy. Thanks to them, we now have GDPR.

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Independent Krebs

Who Was the NSA Contractor Arrested for Leaking the ‘Shadow Brokers’ Hacking Tools?

November 27, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, Central Security Service, Edward Snowden, Gennadiy Sidelnikov, Glen Sidelnikov, Goodfellow Air Force Base, Independent Software, InGuardians, Kaspersky Antivirus, kaspersky lab, Kishinev University, Lackland Air Force Base, Michael A. Pecoraro, Mike Poor, Nathan S. Heidbreder, national security agency, NSA hack, NSA-FTS32 USA, Operation Jeepflea Market, Rob Curtinseufert, Service Cryptologic Elements, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT, tailored access operations, TAO, Texas Cryptologic Center, The Shadow Brokers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:01:26 +0000

In August 2016, a mysterious entity calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” began releasing the first of several troves of classified documents and hacking tools purportedly stolen from “The Equation Group,” a highly advanced threat actor that is suspected of having ties to the U.S. National Security Agency. According to media reports, at least some of the information was stolen from the computer of an unidentified software developer and NSA contractor who was arrested in 2015 after taking the hacking tools home. In this post, we’ll examine clues left behind in the leaked Equation Group documents that may point to the identity of the mysterious software developer.

Independent MotherBoard Security

Ex-NSA Hackers Are Not Surprised by Bombshell Kaspersky Report

October 6, 2017 admin Edward Snowden, eugene kaspersky, hacking, kaspersky lab, news, NSA, SURVEILLANCE, Tech News, The Shadow Brokers

Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:21:16 +0000

Former NSA hackers respond to the revelation of yet another breach at the spy agency.

Independent Krebs

WikiLeaks Dumps Docs on CIA’s Hacking Tools

March 8, 2017 admin Bloomberg, Bugcrowd, Casey Ellis, Center for Cyber Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Cisco, Craig Dods, Edward Snowden, Equation Group, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Juniper, Leonid Bershidsky, national security agency, NSA, Open Whisper Systems, Other, Samsung, signal, smart TVs, The New York Times, The Shadow Brokers, US CIA, vault 7, Weeping Angel, WhatsApp, WikiLeaks, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:39:11 +0000

WikiLeaks on Tuesday dropped one of its most explosive word bombs ever: A secret trove of documents apparently stolen from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing methods of hacking everything from smart phones and TVs to compromising Internet routers and computers. KrebsOnSecurity is still digesting much of this fascinating data cache, but here are some first impressions based on what I’ve seen so far.