Collaborate Disseminate
Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians. Continue reading Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses
The bizarre legal wrangling in the case of an accused CIA leaker took another turn this week when lawyers for Joshua Schulte asked the court to appoint new representation in the event the existing attorneys need to testify at trial. Defense attorneys, in an Aug. 26 letter, ask Judge Paul Crotty of the Southern District of New York to divide the case and appoint new counsel over “an ethical issue” in the matter. Schulte was charged last year with allegedly leaking U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks, eventually resulting in the so-called Vault7 files. Later he was charged with conspiring to leak information from jail. The current moves are associated with those accusations. The attorneys now say Sabrina Schroff, who represents Schulte now, and Matthew Larsen, who previously consulted with Schulte, can testify to the defendant’s mental state before the alleged transmission of classified information from within Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. Understanding Schulte’s […]
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Grindr, Romeo, Recon and 3fun were found to expose users’ exact locations, just by knowing a user name. Continue reading 4 Dating Apps Pinpoint Users’ Precise Locations – and Leak the Data
Videos from Miami Police Department body cams were leaked and stored in unprotected, internet-facing databases, then sold on the darkweb. Continue reading Miami police body cam videos up for sale on the darkweb
Security breaches are on the rise in the legal industry. ABA’s 2018 Legal Technology Survey Report found that 23% of respondents reported that their law firms had experienced a security breach—up from 14% In 2016. From bad actors, to lost d… Continue reading How a Secure Enterprise-Grade Communications Channel Can Protect the Legal Industry
In the most embarrassing security incident so far in 2019, file sharing service WeTransfer has sent users’ files to the wrong inboxes for at least a full day last week. Worse still, the company says it can’t figure out what happened. WeTran… Continue reading Yikes! WeTransfer sends users’ files to the wrong people, says it doesn’t know what happened
Forensic analysis shows a Chinese APT using Equation Group hacking tools at least a year before Shadow Brokers dumped its cache in April 2017. Continue reading Chinese Spies Stole NSA Cyberweapons Long Before Shadow Brokers Leak
After Motherboard reported that a consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data online, the company’s hosting provider took it down. Continue reading Hosting Provider Finally Takes Down Spyware Leak of Thousands of Photos and Phone Calls
A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings, for all to see on a server freely accessible over the internet. And it still hasn’t taken the data down. Continue reading This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can’t Even Tell You About It
The social network confirmed a massive mistake that exposed millions of passwords. But, the company said, no passwords were exposed to people outside of Facebook. Continue reading Facebook Mistakenly Stored ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of User Passwords as Plaintext