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US watched Russia hack French systems during election
The United States watched Russians hack France’s computer networks during the election and tipped off French officials before it became public, a U.S. cyber official told the Senate on Tuesday. France’s election campaign commission said Saturday that “a significant amount of data” — and some information that was likely fake — was leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron’s successful presidential campaign. France’s government cybersecurity agency is investigating what a government official described as a “very serious” breach.
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Government secretly planning to spy on thousands of people's phones, leaked document reveals
The UK government is secretly planning to force technology companies to build backdoors into their products, to enable intelligence agencies to read people’s private messages. A draft document leaked by the Open Rights Group details extreme new surveillance proposals, which would enable government agencies to spy on one in 10,000 citizens – around 6,500 people – at any one time.
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U.S. sweeping up Russian hackers in a broad global dragnet
The arrests caught the Russian hackers totally by surprise. One was at a Finnish border crossing. Another was arriving at an airport in Spain. A third was dining at a restaurant in Prague. Still others were at luxury resorts in the Maldives and Thailand. Many have now turned up in U.S. courts. The long arm of U.S. law enforcement is spanning the globe like never before to bring criminal hackers to justice.
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A 22 year old Canadian arrested over massive Russian hack of 500 million Yahoo accounts
A 22-year-old Canadian man is one of four men arrested in connection with the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in early 2014. Karim Baratov, a dual national of Kazakhstan and Canada, is accused of being a hacker-for-hire contracted by two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Baratov and the three other men – two Russian spies and a hacker on the FBI’s most wanted cyber criminals list – are facing charges of criminal espionage...
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Vigilante who conspired to hack local football website sentenced to 2 years
Deric Lostutter, a self-styled online vigilante who went by the handle "KYAnonymous," has been sentenced to two years in federal prison Wednesday for his role in hacking a local high school football team website more than four years ago. Lostutter initially denied his involvement. But in November 2016, he reversed himself and took a plea agreement in exchange for the prosecution dropping two of the four counts, including the hacking charge under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. (The other two counts—conspiracy and making false statements—remained.)
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Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016.
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Indiana Officials Expose Evidence of Electoral Hacking by the DHS | We Are Change
Article Via: The Daily Sheeple According to a report published by the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group, the Department of Homeland Security
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If Trump hates leaks, he needs to give up his phone
My favourite image of the week was a picture of the Queen opening the National Cyber Security Centre in London. Her Majesty is looking bemusedly at a large display while a member of staff explains how hackers could target the nation’s electricity supply. The job of the centre’s director, Ciaran Martin, is to protect the nation from such dangers. It’s a heavy responsibility, but at least he doesn’t have to worry that his head of state is a cybersecurity liability.
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Hacker who stole celebrity naked pictures sentenced
An Illinois man was sentenced to nine months in federal prison on Tuesday for breaking into the email and online storage of celebrities to obtain their private photos and videos, according to the US Attorney's office. Edward Majerczyk, 29, who pleaded guilty to felony computer hacking charges last year, will begin serving his sentence on 27 February, said Joseph Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for Zach Fardon, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Alarm Bells about Moscow's Meddling have been Ringing in Europe for Months
To view the cyberattacks on Hillary Clinton's presidential election campaign as a unique offence — as many Americans seem to do — is to miss the full picture.
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Russian Hackers 'Threaten Germany 2017 Election', MPs Warn
German politicians say Russia could use hackers and others to undermine the German elections.
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US-CERT: Stop using your remotely exploitable Netgear routers
A flaw in Netgear routers is 'trivial' to remotely exploit -- R7000, R8000 and R6400 -- maybe more. US-CERT advised discontinuing use unless Netgear issues a fix. There's a way to test if your router is vulnerable and an unofficial temporary fix.
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Why a Hacker Who Exposed Rapists Faces More Jail Than the Rapists
A hacker who uncovered evidence that two men who sexually assaulted and photographed an unconscious 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, two years ago could spend more than a decade longer in jail than the rapists he helped expose and convict, thanks to an outdated cybersecurity law. Deric Lostutter, 29, could spend a maximum of 16 years behind bars for his alleged role in a hack of a high school football fan website that led to the discovery of tweets and Instagram photos documenting the 2012 sexual assault of a young girl at a party.
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FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.
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NSA website recovers from outage amid intrigue
A nearly daylong outage that ended Tuesday came amid much speculation about an alleged theft of the agency's cyber tools.
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$100,000 Prize if You Can Find This Secret Command in DOS
There have long been rumors that Microsoft copied CP/M to create MS-DOS for the IBM PC. Consultant Bob Zeidman in 2012 used forensic software tools to analyze the code for IEEE Spectrum, and found no evidence of copying, as he reported in Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS? Since he did that analysis, Microsoft donated previously unavailable source code for MS-DOS to the Computer History Museum. (Zeidman did his original analysis using QDOS.).
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The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office
Drive past the dairy farms, cornfields and horse pastures here and you will eventually arrive at Cate Machine & Welding, a small-town business run by Gene and Lori Cate and their sons. For 46 years, the Cates have welded many things — fertilizer tanks, jet-fighter parts, cheese molds, even a farmer’s broken glasses. And like many small businesses, they have a dusty old computer humming away in the back office. On this one, however, an unusual spy-versus-spy battle is playing out: The machine has been taken over by Chinese hackers.
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For $20M, These Israeli Hackers Will Spy On Any Phone On The Planet
With just a few million dollars and a phone number, you can snoop on any call or text that phone makes – no matter where you are or where the device is located. That’s the bold claim of Israel’s Ability Inc, which offers its set of bleeding-edge spy tools to governments the world over. And it’s plotting to flog its kit to American cops in the coming months.
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The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare
Hacker Maksym Popov gave himself up to the FBI and joined its fight against Eastern European cybercrime. Trouble is, he never really gave up his black hat. One Thursday in January 2001, Maksym Igor Popov, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, walked nervously through the doors of the United States embassy in London. While Popov could have been mistaken for an exchange student applying for a visa, in truth he was a hacker, part of an Eastern European...
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