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Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:00:28 +0000
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:04:00 -0800
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal court to dismiss its indictment in a case that involves a child porn site known as Playpen, after a judge asked the government to disclose the hacking technique it used to gather evidence.
“The government must now choose between disclosure of classified information and dismissal of its indictment,” the DOJ said in a court filing Friday. “Disclosure is not currently an option.”
The case involves Jay Michaud, a school administrator from Vancouver, Wash., who was arrested in July 2015 for allegedly viewing child porn images on Playpen. Michaud’s case was one of at least 137 cases brought throughout the U.S. in relation to Playpen, a website that operated on the Tor anonymity network and which the FBI managed to seize in 2015.
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:19:00 -0800
Nearly 1.4 billion people are affected by a database records leak caused by spamming group River City Media (RCM) forgetting to password-protect their backups.
Last week, MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery promised a “1.4 billion identity leak story” would be made public on Monday. The actual number of people affected – 1,374,159,612 – is slightly lower than that, but is nothing to scoff at.
Teaser screenshot of that DB’s summary data: pic.twitter.com/PEnpJbDZRt
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:00:52 +0000
OpenBazaar is set to integrate Tor’s anonymity features—but still swears it’s not trying to attract the dark web’s black market sales. The post The Fed-Proof Online Market OpenBazaar Is Going Anonymous appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Serge Vilianov| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 14:00:00 +0000
Until very recently, news of blockchain was all around. Now that the hype has passed, let’s contemplate blockchain’s future.
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Credit to Author: Blair Hanley Frank| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 06:18:00 -0800
Okta has acquired Stormpath, a company that provides authentication services for developers. The deal should help the identity provider improve its developer-facing capabilities.
Stormpath offered developers a set of tools for managing user logins for their apps. Rather than building a login system from scratch, developers could call the Stormpath API and have the company take care of it for them. Frederic Kerrest, Okta’s co-founder and chief operating officer, said that the acquisition should help his company build self-service capabilities for developers.
While Okta is probably best known for its identity and access management products aimed at businesses’ internal use, the company also operates a developer platform aimed at helping app developers handle user identity. Kerrest said that the developer capabilities are a fast-growing part of Okta’s business, but that its functionality could use some help. That’s where this acquisition comes in.
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Credit to Author: John Breeden II| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:45:00 -0800
Almost every cybersecurity program these days does some sort of scanning, sandboxing or traffic examination to look for anomalies that might indicate the presence of malware. We’ve even reviewed dedicated threat-hunting tools that ferret out malware that’s already active inside a network.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:00:44 +0000
Google’s Next 2017 conference kicks off today with a series of bootcamps. The regular program starts on Wednesday and runs through Friday, highlighting the latest offerings in the Google Cloud. This is the third iteration of the conference and as with the Google Cloud itself, the show is going to be bigger and better than…