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Hacking Team scrambling to limit damage brought on by explosive data leak
Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it turns out) companies? A hacker …
Man gets 50 months in prison hacking U.S.-based financial institutions
Qendrim Dobruna, a member of an international cybercrime syndicate, was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment and restitution in the amount of $14 million for his role in …
Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked
Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance software to governments, intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the …
NIST revises security publication on random number generation
In response to public concerns about cryptographic security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally revised its recommended methods for …
WikiLeaks publishes reports showing NSA spied on French presidents
WikiLeaks has published “Espionnage Élysée”, a set of intelligence reports and documents that show that the US NSA has, between 2006 and 2012, intercepted the …
Who fixes the most vulnerabilities?
Web and mobile applications produced or used by government organizations are more likely than those in other industries to fail standard security policies like the OWASP Top …
The state of cyber security in Thailand
Thailand – the land of smiles – invited me as a panelist to the CSA ASEAN 2015 summit. Bangkok, with its fantastic street food, smiling people and general …
Stronger data protection rules for Europe
More than 90% of Europeans are concerned about mobile apps collecting their data without their consent. Today, an important step was taken to finalize EU data protection rules …
OPM hack: Vast amounts of extremely sensitive data stolen
The extent of the breach suffered by the US Office of Personnel Management has apparently widened. Reports are coming in that the hackers have not only accessed Social …
49 suspected members of cybercriminal group arrested in Europe
Yesterday, a joint international operation led to the dismantling of a group of cybercriminals active in Italy, Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Georgia, who are …
Personal info of 4 million US government workers compromised in OPM breach
Approximately 4 million US federal employees, both current and former, will start receiving a breach notification alerting them that their personal information has potentially …
Shadow IT is prevalent in government agencies
Despite clear benefits of cloud services – greater collaboration, agility, and cost savings – federal agencies are slow to migrate to the cloud due to security concerns. As a …