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Black Hat USA 2017: what’s on the agenda in Las Vegas

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Russian hackers targeted 21 states before 2016 election, FBI still investigating

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Government officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigations said Wednesday that election officials and systems in a total of 21 states were targeted by Russian hackers in the months preceding the 2016 presidential election. “We have evidence of election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted,” said Jeanette Manfra, acting deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications at the DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate. The disclosure was made for the first time during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence focused on Russian interference in the U.S. election. Manfra did not name the individual states which were targeted and also did not further explain the contextual definition of “targeted” in this context. She also did not say how many of the targeted states were ultimately hacked and if, for example, any data was exfiltrated in these select incidents. The “owners” of targeted […]

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May 30, 2017 – Hack Naked News #127

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Thousands of known bugs found in pacemaker code, Chipotle’s sale terminals get hacked, Microsoft patches another critical malware protection engine flaw, popular Radius server expoitable with TLS session caching, and polite hackers hijacked this mall billboard. All that and more on this episode of Hack Naked News! Full Show Notes Visit http://hacknaked.tv to get all Continue reading May 30, 2017 – Hack Naked News #127→

Cryptocurrency company pushes back against Shadow Brokers’ latest claims

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The Shadow Brokers say they will be accepting Zcash for subscriptions to their monthly dumps of leaked NSA files — a decision intended to needle the U.S. government over its role in the cryptocurrency’s creation. But the company that oversees Zcash says that federal agencies have no ties to the cryptocurrency beyond some general connections to its academic roots. In announcing the subscription service, the Shadow Brokers insinuated that Zcash has links to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, other U.S. military agencies and Israel. “Maybe USG is needing to be sending money outside from banking systems? If USG is hacking and watching banking systems (SWIFT) then adversaries is also hacking and watching banking systems. Maybe is for sending money to deep cover foreign assets? Maybe is being trojan horse with cryptographic flaw or weakness only NSA can exploit? Maybe is not being for money?” the blog post written in broken English reads. Though the hacking group has claimed Zcash’s privacy […]

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Crooks hold nude plastic surgery pictures to ransom after break-in

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Patients, including some celebrities, of a plastic surgery clinic, have found themselves on the receiving end of ransom demands
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Celebrity ‘extortion’: judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone

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The Miami case is just the latest in a line of cases where law enforcement has wanted to get at data stored on someone’s cellphone Continue reading Celebrity ‘extortion’: judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone→