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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. 119,000 individuals were affected.

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GUEST ESSAY: Supply chain vulnerabilities play out in latest Pentagon personnel records breach

The Last Watchdog

government strategic systems. 12, the Pentagon disclosed that intruders breached Defense Department travel records and compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. It’s not as if big government agencies and most enterprises aren’t making an effort to stop breaches.

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The Microsoft Exchange Attack Saga Continues

eSecurity Planet

This vulnerability allows an attacker to make an untrusted connection to Exchange server port 443, allowing them to send arbitrary HTTP requests and authenticate as the Exchange server. Microsoft reports that the tool has been tested for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. The other Vulnerability Culprits.