CIA

Second Swiss Firm Said to Be CIA Encryption Puppet

First Crypto AG, and now Omnisec AG: Sources say second Swiss company was also in the pocket of the CIA ...
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Google

Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data

After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long? ...
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Chinese

Japanese Orgs Hacked ‘by China’ in Long, Widespread Campaign

Chinese state-backed threat actors APT10 have been hacking Japanese businesses for at least a year ...
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Sandworm

3 Takeaways from Sandworm Hacker Group’s Indictment 

The U.S.Department of Justice officially revealed in October what it said were a number of instances of Russian government-sponsored hacking when it formally indicated six members and officers in Russia’s military agency ...
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threat intelligence

HackNotice to Democratize Threat Intelligence

HackNotice announced today it has added a set of free analysis and visualization tools to enable end users to know when their personally identifiable information has been disclosed. The tools, dubbed Risk ...
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Linux

Cisco Advances Effort to Simplify Security

Cisco Systems has updated SecureX, a free console it provides for its portfolio of security offerings, to include sample extended detection and response (XDR) workflows along with additional analytics and a refreshed ...
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Google

Google ‘Irresponsibly’ Discloses Windows Zero-Day

Google discovered a “threat actor” exploiting a pair of bugs—one in Chrome and one in Windows ...
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logs

A Return to Logs to Unjam the Security Deficit

Some years ago, during the renaissance of security information and event management (SIEM), security became log crazy. The hope was that by gathering logs from networking and security devices and running them ...
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GRU

GRU Agents Indicted for Hacking Multiple Targets

The DoJ has charged six Russians, allegedly working for the GRU, with a huge range of computer crimes ...
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Xplora

Xplora Watches for Kids: Chinese Spyware

Chinese smartwatches for kids: Just one of this decade’s objectively terrible ideas ...
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