Collaborate Disseminate
Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize all pedestrians, and was being driven by an operator likely distracted by streaming video, according to documents released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this week. But while… Continue reading NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is the fifth-largest investor in Uber. Continue reading Uber CEO on Saudi Arabia’s Murder and Dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi: We All Make Mistakes
The cybercrime lovebirds who hijacked Washington DC’s CCTV cameras in the run-up to Donald Trump’s inauguration, the truffle-snuffling bankers at the centre of an insider-trading scandal, and the hackers that Uber paid hush money to hide a … Continue reading Smashing Security #153: Cybercrime doesn’t pay (but Uber does)
The two men pointed to Uber’s $100K hush-money payment when they tried to extort Linkedin-owned Lynda… that instead called the cops. Continue reading Hackers plead guilty to breach that Uber covered up
Two hackers face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to their involvement in a scheme which saw them attempt to extort money from Uber and LinkedIn in exchange for the deletion of stolen data.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State … Continue reading Men who were paid $100,000 by Uber to hush-up hack plead guilty to extortion scheme
Two hackers face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to their involvement in a scheme which saw them attempt to extort money from Uber and LinkedIn in exchange for the deletion of stolen data. Twenty-six-year-old Brandon Charles Glover and… Continue reading Men paid $100K by Uber to hush up hack plead guilty to extortion scheme
Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of millions of customers they had stolen in late 2016.
In a San Jose courthouse in California on Wed… Continue reading Two Hackers Who Extorted Money From Uber and LinkedIn Plead Guilty
Two men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges related to hacking Uber and LinkedIn subsidiary Lynda.com in 2016, then trying to blackmail both companies into paying them to keep quiet about the incidents. Brandon Glover, a 26-year-old Florida man, and Vasile Mereacre, a 23-year-old Canadian, acknowledged their role iin a scheme to access personal information belonging to tens of millions of customers. The men said they were able to obtain customers’ information from Uber and Lynda by accessing Amazon Web Services accounts from both companies’ employees, then downloading troves of data. Then, they anonymously contacted security teams from both companies, promising to remain silent in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Uber agreed to the terms, saying it would pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin that the company later classified as a bug bounty payment, as long as the thieves would sign confidentiality agreements about the breach affecting 57 […]
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The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says. Continue reading Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data
Sharing cybersecurity information between the government and private sector won’t do much good if neither side trusts the other. “Information sharing” for a generation has been proposed as a solution by executives in corporate America and agency leaders in Washington as a necessary step in helping both sides keep ahead of hackers. The quick, reliable transmission of threat data, attacker objectives and the latest techniques for stealing U.S. secrets should be a key component of how security teams in the public and private sectors protect their systems. In order for that to work, decision-makers need to understand the incentives that make sharing their own threat information worth the effort. More than six years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden started leaking documents detailing government espionage on U.S.-built technology, there’s still a lingering sense of unease between Washington and Silicon Valley, Matt Olsen, chief trust and security officer at […]
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