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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

Both during this week and over previous years, there's been various headlines calling the security posture of Aadhaar into question and the Indian government has been vehemently refuting any suggestion that the system isn't top notch. agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. I'm a principal on the security team at Cybereason, and I'm also a digital forensics instructor at the SANS Institute, Grooten: Martijn Grooten. So I hope you'll stick around.