Collaborate Disseminate
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 users of “make your own avatar” app Boom… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018
We are seeing a fairly large Ursnif /Gozi /ISFB campaign hitting the UK since Yesterday. The criminals are using the theme of Brexit which is very topical in UK ( and the rest of Europe) at the moment. There are numerous subjects all with Brexit somew… Continue reading Large Ursnif campaign hitting UK using Brexit as lure
A notorious Russian hacking group tried to exploit the latest flurry of Brexit-related news to spread malware to unsuspecting victims, according to a report from Accenture released Thursday. APT28, which Accenture refers to as SNAKEMACKEREL, used a malware-laced Microsoft Word document that appeared to be about the United Kingdom’s planned separation from the European Union to try breaching a wide variety of targets’ systems, researchers said. APT28 is widely believed to be the product of Russian intelligence services. Also known as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm and other names, its the same group researchers have blamed for the 2016 breach on the Democratic National Committee, for leaks relating to the 2018 Winter Olympics and for the targeting of various government, political, critical infrastructure and other organizations. “Based on observed targeting by this threat group over the past few years, we assess with moderate confidence that they are likely to have targeted government, politics, think tanks and defense organizations in […]
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Carole Cadwalladr, the investigative journalist who revealed how the personal data of millions of Facebook users was used to influence the US election, speaks about what went on behind the headlines.
Continue reading Carole Cadwalladr takes us behind the scenes of the Cambridge Analytica investigation
A topic inescapably in the minds of us Brits is what type of relationship will the U.K. maintain with the EU post our departure, which in one transitional form or another is slated to commence 29 March 2019. The next few months are considered to be a … Continue reading Deal, No Deal: The State of U.K. Cybersecurity Post-Brexit
UK startup Juro, which is applying a “design centric approach” and machine learning tech to help businesses speed up the authoring and management of sales contracts, has closed $2m in seed funding led by Point Nine Capital. Prior investor Seedcamp also contributed to the round. Juro is announcing Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise’s co-founder) as an investor […] Continue reading Juro grabs $2M to take the hassle out of contracts
The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.
Continue reading Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked
Sandy Parakilas, formerly responsible for policing data breaches, said ignorance was bliss and assumed to protect Facebook from liability. Continue reading New whistleblower says Facebook turned a blind eye to covert data harvesting
Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica for violating its platform policies. Continue reading Facebook loses control of 50 million users’ data, suspends analytics firm
By Waqas
Controversies and scandals on Facebook don’t seem to end anytime
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook Secretly Provided Analytic Firm Access to Million of Profiles
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