Collaborate Disseminate
The Department of Justice indicted four individuals, including two Russian FSB officers, for their roles in the Yahoo breach. Continue reading FSB Officers, Criminal Hackers Indicted in Yahoo Breach
U.S. officials will be indicting four people in connection to the cyberattacks against Yahoo that compromised information related to 1 billion user accounts, according to multiple reports. The Department of Justice is said to target one individual based in Canada and three based in Russia, according to a Bloomberg report. An arrest of the Canadian person could happen as soon as Tuesday. The Department of Justice is holding a press conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to announce the indictment. It was revealed in October that user details from more than 500 million Yahoo accounts — including names, birth dates and encrypted passwords — were stolen nearly two years ago by state-sponsored hackers. Email addresses “and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers” were also included in the stolen data, but not payment card data or bank account information, which was stored in a separate system. Yahoo then disclosed in December another security incident […]
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U.S. officials will be indicting four people in connection to the cyberattacks against Yahoo that compromised information related to 1 billion user accounts, according to multiple reports. The Department of Justice is said to target one individual based in Canada and three based in Russia, according to a Bloomberg report. An arrest of the Canadian person could happen as soon as Tuesday. The Department of Justice is holding a press conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to announce the indictment. It was revealed in October that user details from more than 500 million Yahoo accounts — including names, birth dates and encrypted passwords — were stolen nearly two years ago by state-sponsored hackers. Email addresses “and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers” were also included in the stolen data, but not payment card data or bank account information, which was stored in a separate system. Yahoo then disclosed in December another security incident […]
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Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including a rash of new IP camera backdoors, James Comey’s talk at Boston College, hacking back vs. active defense, and the DOJ dropping one of its Playpen cases. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, March 10, 2017
Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice dropped their case against a suspect who visited the dark web site child pornography site Playpen. Continue reading DOJ Dismisses Playpen Case to Keep Tor Hack Private
How secure are university email accounts? Continue reading Hacker used password resets to break into 1,050 university email accounts
How secure are university email accounts? Continue reading Hacker used password resets to break into 1,050 university email accounts
The DOJ says the satellite giant colluded with rivals in violation of federal antitrust law. Continue reading AT&T’s DirecTV ‘Corrupted’ LA Dodgers TV Talks, DOJ Alleges in Lawsuit
AT&T and Time Warner want to avoid FCC scrutiny. That’s unlikely. Continue reading The $85 Billion Question: Will the FCC Review the AT&T-Time Warner Deal?
Vertical integration is back. Continue reading Public Interest Groups Sound the Alarm Over Possible AT&T-Time Warner Merger