Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. Lots of news articles about this.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack (not a great name, since it’s much more far-reaching than that). “Early warning” sensors placed by Cyber Command and the National Security Agency deep inside foreign networks to detect brewing attacks clearly failed.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”. In 2014, the U.S.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

and South Korean governments have issued a joint advisory outlining a North Korean phishing campaign, The Register reports. Kimsuky is administratively subordinate to an element within North Korea's RGB and has conducted broad cyber campaigns in support of RGB objectives since at least 2012. Currently, the U.S. Currently, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

The US Justice Department says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security researchers, but what constitutes good-faith security research? He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Is hacking a crime? But MIT didn’t press charges.

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