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Sources: Amazon quietly acquired AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M
Amazon’s AWS cloud services division quietly acquired cyber security firm harvest.ai last year, TechCrunch has learned. Read More
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Russia extends Snowden’s temporary residency for ‘few more years’
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has had his temporary right to remain in Russia extended, according to a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman. Read More
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FBI director fact-checks Trump’s tweets
A Congressional committee is grilling FBI director James Comey and NSA chief Admiral Mike Rogers on a Russian-led cyber campaign to influence the 2016 election, but representatives’ questions have...
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Alleged NSA hack group Shadow Brokers releases new trove of exploits
Shadow Brokers, the group behind last year’s release of hacking exploits used by the National Security Agency, has dropped another trove of files. In a Medium post today, the hacker group offered up a...
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The Shadow Brokers are back with exploits for Windows and global banking systems
It’s been several months since their last major exploit, but the hacking group dubbed Shadow Brokers is back. The group, which last year dumped malware it had allegedly stolen from The Equation Group,...
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General Keith Alexander is coming to Disrupt NY
As the longest-serving director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander certainly knows a thing or two about cybersecurity and the threats companies face from sophisticated nation-state...
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With the war far from over, privacy activists cautiously celebrate a battle won
After the NSA’s surprise announcement that it would pull back on a contentious surveillance tactic, privacy advocates found themselves in a strange place in 2017: They’d actually won a thing. With a...
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Microsoft’s response to widespread cyberattacks may make you WannaCry
Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer Brad Smith took to the company’s website to give a post mortem on the lessons that need to be learned from the global hack that crippled businesses and...
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After WannaCry, ex-NSA director defends agencies holding exploits
General Keith Alexander has warned there will be more ransomware attacks this year, and urged industry to work with government to try to defend against global cyber threats. Read More
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Trump approves Obama-era plan for a more independent US Cyber Command
President Trump has given the go-ahead for a plan dating from the Obama administration to elevate US Cyber Command to the level of Unified Combatant Command, giving it more operational independence...
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A Google security chief considers the NSA a state-sponsored threat
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 Google’s Manager of Information Security Heather Adkins sat down for a fireside chat. Among the varying topics discussed, she spoke about what’s like to have the...
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Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever)
The global surge in encrypted traffic and a wide adoption of end-to-end encryption by mainstream tech companies is a transformative shift in information security worth celebrating. Billions of online...
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Everything you need to know about the NSA hack (but were afraid to Google)
In what Edward Snowden deems “not unprecedented,” hackers calling themselves the Shadow Brokers have collected NSA-created malware from a staging server run by the Equation Group, an internal hacking...
View ArticleCisco and Fortinet say vulnerabilities disclosed in ‘NSA hack’ are legit
A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online this weekend that it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, a hacking team widely believed to be associated with the NSA. Firewall...
View ArticleSnowden docs link NSA to Equation Group hackers
A group calling itself the ShadowBrokers dumped data online last weekend that it claimed to have stolen from a hacking team widely believed to be linked to the NSA. The data contained vulnerabilities...
View ArticleAshton Carter talks Equation Group hack, encryption debate and military...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter argued the case for splitting up the leadership of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on stage at Disrupt SF, while stressing, “We haven’t made...
View ArticleNSA contractor arrested for theft of six classified documents
A National Security Agency contractor was arrested in August for the theft of classified material, which reportedly contained hacking codes for government systems in Russia, China, North Korea and...
View ArticleShadow Brokers post list of compromised IP addresses
Last night, after several months of relative quiet, a hacking group calling itself the Shadow Brokers posted new data purportedly stolen from the NSA. The group’s last leak in August included malware...
View ArticleIntel report on hacking says Russian interference with US election was...
Today the U.S. intelligence community released a report claiming that the Russian government was behind hacks of American political organizations during the 2016 election cycle and that the hackers...
View ArticleSources: Amazon quietly acquired AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M
Amazon Web Services appears to be ramping up its security chops. TechCrunch has learned that the e-commerce giant’s cloud services group quietly acquired cyber security firm harvest.ai. The San...
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