Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Dumbphone Sales are Soaring, John Oliver Blackmails Congress, Cicada Chinese APT Group

More young people seem to be choosing dumbphones over smartphones, but is it because of privacy concerns or because its trendy? John Oliver, host of the ‘Last Week Tonight’ show, used data ...
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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2017 Equifax Hack: ‘It was the Chinese Army,’ Alleges DoJ

2017 Equifax Hack: ‘It was the Chinese Army,’ Alleges DoJ

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The U.S. government has indicted four Chinese citizens, accusing them of a hack of Equifax that leaked more than 150 million people’s data ...
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Cyber Security Roundup for June 2019

Keep Patching!June 2019 was another very busy month for security update releases. Microsoft released updates to patch 22 critical rated vulnerabilities, Intel released 11 fixes, and there were also several critical security ...

Cyber Security Roundup for February 2019

The perceived threat posed by Huawei to the UK national infrastructure continued to make the headlines throughout February, as politicians, UK government agencies and the Chinese telecoms giant continued to play out ...
Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018

Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018

The final Cyber Security Roundup of 2018 concludes reports of major data breaches, serious software vulnerabilities and evolving cyber threats, so pretty much like the previous 11 months of the year.5.3 millions ...
'Five Eyes' Countries Attribute APT10 Attacks to Chinese Intelligence Service

‘Five Eyes’ Countries Attribute APT10 Attacks to Chinese Intelligence Service

Following the indictment of two alleged members of a Chinese cyberespionage group by the U.S. Department of Justice Dec. 20, the governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. have publicly ...
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Malware

Researcher Drops Third Windows Zero-Day Exploit in Four Months

A security researcher who uses the online handle SandboxEscaper has published proof-of-concept exploit code for an unpatched vulnerability in Windows. The flaw is located in the “MsiAdvertiseProduct” function, which, according to Microsoft’s ...
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Cyber Security Roundup for September 2018

September 2018 started with a data breach bang, with British Airways disclosing a significant hack and data loss. 380,000 of the airlines' website and mobile app customers had their debit and credit ...