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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

net prior to our phone call in 2014. In February 2014, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to Usatyuk’s father Peter Usatyuk , an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com com , betabooter[.]com com , databooter[.]com com , instabooter[.]com com , polystress[.]com

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Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

Schneier on Security

2014-2015: China’s hacking team code-named APT31, aka Zirconium, developed Jian by, one way or another, cloning EpMe. This allows someone with a foothold on a machine to commandeer the whole box. Early 2017: The Equation Group’s tools were teased and then leaked online by a team calling itself the Shadow Brokers.

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FEMA IT Specialist Charged in ID Theft, Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy

Krebs on Security

An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking into the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014, stealing personal data on more than 65,000 UPMC employees, and selling the data on the dark web.

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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

Security Affairs

million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers across the US and Canada. Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Unc0ver is the first jailbreak that works on all recent iOS versions since 2014

Security Affairs

will be a big milestone for jailbreaking because it is the first zero-day jailbreak released since iOS 8 that was released in September 2014. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . unc0ver v5.0.0 Pierluigi Paganini.

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NIST Unveils Second Iteration of Cybersecurity Framework

Data Breach Today

National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2014 has received its first major update. New CSF Adds 'Governance' to Core Functions Cybersecurity guidance for the private sector published by the U.S. The revised Cybersecurity Framework focuses on governance and says cybersecurity threats are a major source of enterprise risk.

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IT Governance Podcast 08.09.23: Electoral Commission (again), Meta, Pôle emploi

IT Governance

According to the statement, attackers were able to access servers that held emails, control systems and reference copies of the electoral registers of those registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022, as well as overseas voters. IT Governance has been a certification body for the scheme since 2014, when it was launched.