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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:56:07 +0000

A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach.

ComputerWorld Independent

July 18, 2023 admin

This is why personal encryption is vital to the future of business

Data encryption is threatened by government forces who haven’t yet recognized that without personal security, you cannot have enterprise security. Because attackers will exploit any available weakness to undermine protection — and if your people or your customers aren’t secure, neither is your business.

Get with the data

Attackers will always go where the money is. They will spend lots of it to mount attacks. They will delve deeper, and if they’re spending money, they also have the necessary resources to investigate absolutely anyone they can identify as a potential target.

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Independent Krebs

July 18, 2023 admin

LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:57:04 +0000

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later.

Security TrendMicro

July 18, 2023 admin

Possible Supply-Chain Attack Targeting Pakistani Government Delivers Shadowpad

Credit to Author: Daniel Lunghi| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We recently found that a modified installer of the E-Office app used by the Pakistani government delivered a Shadowpad sample, suggesting a possible supply-chain attack.

Kaspersky Security

July 18, 2023 admin