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Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations and the security of government and corporate computers. A cache of hacking tools with code names such as Epicbanana, Buzzdirection…
Image: Getty The recent hack that targeted Democratic officials and led to the resignation of Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was much bigger than initially suspected, according to a new report from the New York Times. Sources tell the paper that over 100 officials and groups had their private email accounts breached, and…
Millions of drivers use Waze, a Google-owned navigation app, to find the best, fastest route from point A to point B. And according to a new study, all of those people run the risk of having their movements tracked by hackers. Researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara recently discovered a Waze vulnerability that allowed…
On October 4, 2012, two FBI agents visited the home of Matthew Keys, aged 25, in Secaucus, New Jersey. At the time, he was the deputy social media editor for Reuters. Special Agents John Cauthen and Gabriel Andrews showed him a sheaf of papers—a search warrant over 50 pages including chat transcripts. Keys was…
This story has been updated throughout with further information from the sentencing. On Wednesday, the former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced to two years in prison for computer hacking. Keys, who once worked for Tribune Company-owned Sacramento television station Fox 40, left that job in 2010 and went on to copy and paste…
cache hit 320:single/related:72484550164ca1b60a0bf11636f964fd empty Matthew Keys Matthew Keys, a journalist, was found guilty on Wednesday of three counts of criminal hacking. He faces up to 25 years in prison, but officials are expected to seek less than five years. When asked via a Twitter direct message if he would appeal, he told Ars: “Yes,” adding,…
View this image › Matthew Keys (L) leaves the federal courthouse after being arraigned in April 2013. Max Whittaker / Getty Images ID: 8435065 Matthew Keys, a journalist who was convicted last year of computer hacking was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by another two years of supervised release today in a federal…
(Twitter) There are literal textbooks for online harassment, the original dating back to 1999. These “ruin-life” guides include tactics from doxing and SWATing to placing endangering or annoying ads in online classifieds. As popular as those techniques remain, however, online harassers have learned that they can cause far more damage with a slightly less flashy…
Mossack Fonseca Breach – WordPress Revolution Slider Plugin Possible Cause This entry was posted in General Security, WordPress Security on April 7, 2016 by mark 44 Replies Mossack Fonseca (MF), the Panamanian law firm at the center of the so called Panama Papers Breach may have been breached via a vulnerable version of Revolution Slider. The…