NSA Hacking Of Disk Drives Revealed

February 16, 2015 mitch tanenbaum

It’s not been a great year for the NSA. First Snowden and all press they have gotten as a result of the leaked documents that seem to come out every month. Now a Russian security researcher, Gene Kaspersky, that I wrote about recently (see post) revealed that they have detected malware in the firmware of […]

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Hacks, Legal

Banks Bilked Out Of More Than $1 Billion

February 15, 2015 mitch tanenbaum

Reuters is reporting that Kaspersky Labs is working with Interpol, Europol and other law enforcement authorities to ferret out more details of the attack, but they have announced several details. Gene Kaspersky, founder and head of Kaspersky Labs is well known in white hat (good guy) hacking circles. His public pronouncements, while sometimes flashy, usually […]

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