As many ponder the big ethical questions around cyber, some are proposing public interest technologist as a solution.
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Category Archives: Government
RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia
Researchers say a new remote access Trojan dubbed UBoatRAT is targeting individuals or organizations linked to South Korea or video games industry.
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Attackers Redefining Objectives, Approaches
The nature of cyberattacks is changing and increasingly leveraging social networks as they take aim at new targets.
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Intel Confirms Its Much-Loathed ME Feature Has A Kill Switch
A previously undocumented kill switch for a remote management feature baked into many Intel chips can be switched off.
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Vendor Exposes Backup of Chicago Voter Roll via AWS Bucket
Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket.
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Engineering Firm Leaks Sensitive Data on Dell, SBC and Oracle
Power Quality Engineering publicly exposed sensitive electrical infrastructure data on the public internet tied to Dell Technologies, SBC, Freescale, Oracle, Texas Instruments and the City of Austin.
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Tor Developer Busts Myths, Announces New Features
Tor cofounder Roger Dingledine sets the record straight at DEF CON on popular myths, and at the same time teases upcoming features.
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Tor Project Opens Bounty Program To All Researchers
The Tor Project is launching a public bug bounty program to encourage security researchers to responsibly report issues they find in the software.
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New EU Privacy Laws Will Complicate B2B Data Sharing
Exploring the legality of the international business-to-business sharing of IP addresses within the cyber threat intelligence community.
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Threatpost News Wrap, June 23, 2017
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Citizen Lab’s latest report, WannaCry hitting Honda, GhostHook, and Fireball.
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