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Uber CISO Verdict: It’s the Cover-Up

Security circles are all aflutter regarding the guilty verdict of Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Uber, on charges of obstructing justice and actively hiding a felony. You can read the Washington Post‘s ...
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Uber Hacked by 18 Year Old, Morgan Stanley Hard Drives Got Auctioned, Deleting Your Data is Hard

Uber Hacked by 18 Year Old, Morgan Stanley Hard Drives Got Auctioned, Deleting Your Data is Hard

Uber got hacked by an 18 year old using social engineering and a multi-factor authentication fatigue attack, Morgan Stanley has been auctioning off hard drives holding sensitive client data since 2015, and ...
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Privacy as Property: Uber CISO Criminal Case Goes to Trial

Former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor and former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan will face a federal jury in San Francisco later this month on allegations related to his response to a data breach at ...
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Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired ...
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Uber’s Latest Shenanigans

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in conjunction with a number of worldwide publications, jointly released an ICIJ investigation, “The Uber Files” which detailed the back room deals and access enjoyed ...
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Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard, the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who's tricked dozens of start-ups into giving him tens of millions of ...
Cyber Security Roundup for September 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for September 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, August 2020.Taking security training courses and passing certification exams are ...
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Uber ex-CISO Charged ‘Obstruction and Misprision,’ say DoJ/FBI

Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former security honcho, stands accused of obstructing justice and covering up a crime ...
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Former Uber Exec Faces Eight Years in Prison over Cover-Up of 2016 Hack

Former Uber Exec Faces Eight Years in Prison over Cover-Up of 2016 Hack

Uber’s former chief security officer, who allegedly paid off hackers to keep a massive data breach secret, has been charged with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony. The 52-year-old faces ...