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14 Year Long Chinese Hacking Ring Identified

Up until now, the longest undetected hacking operation that I was aware of was at Nortel Networks. It lasted 12 years and resulted in the company shutting down in bankruptcy and sold for scrap. This one beats that one. The DoJ unsealed indictments today for 7 Chinese nationals (note to these folks: do not travel […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 22, 2024

Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]

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Feds Say CISA Not Prepared to Defend OT

If that headline doesn’t keep you up at night, I don’t know what will. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says they have have found inefficiencies in CISA’s information sharing practices, in particular with critical infrastructure stakeholders. They also say that CISA is understaffed for handling OT incidents. Just to make sure everyone is on the […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 15, 2024

No Honor Among Crooks – Darknet Site Extorts Vendors, Buyers I guess we should not be surprised, but darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has posted a threat on its homepage that if its vendors and buyers don’t pay an extortion of between $100 and $20,000, they will publish all of their transaction and chat records. […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 8, 2024

Hacking and Stealing Your Car From the Outside Through Your Headlight Apparently this is real. Crooks can pop off the headlight trim on some cars and get access to the cables to your “smart” headlights. From there they have access to the data bus called the CAN bus and from there they can unlock and […]

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Another Law Firm Gets Security Religion – AFTER Hackers Stole 325,000 Customer’s Data

The Houser LLP law firm specializes in taking care of high-profile financial institutions. Last May they were hacked. Ten months later they are finally notifying those high profile customers. They eventually were forced to disclose the breach to the Maine AG (among others). They said files were encrypted (AKA ransomware) and data was stolen. Data […]

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