New York Times – Computer Security Articles

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

February 28, 2020 admin FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, Joseph Cox, New York Times, Securus Technologies, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, vice.com, Wall Street Journal

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:12:10 +0000

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don’t go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.

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NY Investigates Exposure of 885 Million Mortgage Documents

May 31, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, data breaches, First American Financial Corp., New York Department of Financial Services, New York Times, Stacy Cowley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:58:59 +0000

New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] as the first test of the state’s strict new cybersecurity regulation. That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful.

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Adrian Lamo, ‘Homeless Hacker’ Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dead at 37

March 19, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Adrian Lamo, Bradley Manning, chelsea manning, homeless hacker, New York Times, Wichita Eagle, WikiLeaks

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:53:12 +0000

Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times’s network and for reporting Chelsea Manning’s theft of classified documents to the FBI, was found dead in a Kansas apartment on Wednesday. Lamo was widely reviled and criticized for turning in Manning, but that chapter of his life eclipsed the profile of a complex individual who taught me quite a bit about security over the years. Adrian Lamo, in 2006. Source: Wikipedia. I first met Lamo in 2001 when I was a correspondent for Newsbytes.com, a now-defunct tech publication that was owned by The Washington Post at the time. A mutual friend introduced us over AOL Instant Messenger, explaining that Lamo had worked out a simple method allowing him to waltz into the networks of some of the world’s largest media companies using nothing more than a Web browser.

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Is Your Mobile Carrier Your Weakest Link?

August 28, 2017 admin AT&T, Authy, Bictoin theft, CloudFlare, Google Authenticator, National Institute of Standards and Technology, New York Times, NIST, Other, Techcrunch, the value of a hacked email account

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:46:42 +0000

More online services than ever now offer two-step authentication — requiring customers to complete a login using their phone or other mobile device after supplying a username and password. But with so many services relying on your mobile for that second factor, there has never been more riding on the security of your mobile account. Below are some tips to ensure your mobile device (or, more specifically, your mobile carrier) isn’t the weakest link in your security chain.

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Alleged Spam King Pyotr Levashov Arrested

April 9, 2017 admin Alan Ralsky, fake antivirus, fake AV, Kelihos botnet, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, New York Times, Other, Peter Ivashov, Peter Levashov, Peter Severa, Pyotr Levashov, Reuters, ROKSO, Spam Nation, spamdot.biz, spamhaus, Spamit, Viktor Sergeevich Ivashov, Vladimir Putin, waledac

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:17:09 +0000

Authorities in Spain have arrested a Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world’s most notorious spam kingpins. Spanish police arrested Pyotr Levashov under an international warrant executed in the city of Barcelona, according to Reuters. Russian state-run television station RT (formerly Russia Today) reported that Levashov was arrested while vacationing in Spain with his family. According to numerous stories here at KrebsOnSecurity, Levashov was better known as “Severa,” the hacker moniker used by a pivotal figure in many popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. Severa was the moderator for the spam subsection of multiple online communities, and in this role served as the virtual linchpin connecting virus writers with huge spam networks that Severa allegedly created and sold himself.

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DNI: Putin Led Cyber, Propaganda Effort to Elect Trump, Denigrate Clinton

January 23, 2017 admin CrowdStrike, Daily Beast, dcleaks.com, DHS, DNC, DNI, FBI, Guccifer 2.0, Jonanthan Zdziarksi, Kevin Poulsen, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Nina Agrawal, Officer of the Director of National Intelligence, Other, RT, russia today, Vladimir Putin, Voice of America, wired

Russian President Vladimir Putin directed a massive propaganda and cyber attack operation aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton and getting Donald Trump elected, the top U.S. intelligence agencies said in a remarkable yet unshocking report released on Friday.