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Security News Update for the Week Ending September 23, 2022

Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at Twitter Mudge says that there were spies working for China and India working at the company. Twitter says of course. Probably because that was part of a deal-with-the-devil that Twitter made to be able to stay in the country. What Mudge says was […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 24, 2021

Russian Hackers Make Millions by Stealing SEC Earning Reports A Russian hacker working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. for hacking into the computer networks of two SEC filing agents used by multiple companies to file their quarterly and annual SEC reports. Using that insider information, the hacker traded stock in […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 22, 2021

Parler Finds A New Home With Russian Hosting Provider in Belize “Hello world, is this thing on? With that message Parler’s website is back online. Well at least a one page website is back online. The site is being hosted by Russian-owned DDoS-Guard, a company that apparently also hosts ISIS web sites. Whether the folks […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 28, 2018

Cisco Will Eliminate Hard Coded Passwords One Per Month It seems like every patch cycle, Cisco admits to another app that has an undocumented hard coded password.  I have lost track of how many of them they have removed so far, but the number is scary large. What is more scary is that I bet […]

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Uber Paid Hacker $100k Hush Money; Didn’t Disclose Breach

This may turn out to be a lesson in Internet law for everyone. In October 2016, hackers breached Uber’s systems and made off with personal information for 57 million customers.  They also made off with other information for 7 million Uber drivers and 600,000 drivers license numbers. Uber says that no socials or credit cards […]

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