How to Think Like a Hacker

In the arms race of computer security, it’s never been more important to develop an adversarial mindset that can identify assumptions and determine if and how they can be violated. Computer security is a very unique field. Unlike other fields in which the challenge is to overcome the scale of a problem or the complexity
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JP Morgan Hacker Pleads Guilty

Russian national Andrei Tyurin, who was extradited to the US last year by Georgian officials for allegedly hacking JP Morgan Chase in 2014 as well as several other cyberattacks on US financial and other organizations, now faces sentencing after a guilty plea in US District Court. Tyurin, 35, was involved in a wide-ranging hacking campaign that targeted
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BRONZE BUTLER Hacker Group Targets Japanese Enterprises

Summary Secureworks® incident responders and Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers investigated activities associated with the BRONZE BUTLER (also known as Tick) threat group, which likely originates in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). BRONZE BUTLER’s operations suggest a long-standing intent to exfiltrate intellectual property and other confidential data from Japanese organizations. Intrusions observed by CTU™
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Common Hacker Tool Hit with Hackable Vulnerability

Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2018-6339PUBLISHED: 2019-06-14 When receiving calls using WhatsApp on Android, a stack allocation failed to properly account for the amount of data being passed in. An off-by-one error meant that data was written beyond the allocated space on the stack. This issue affects WhatsApp for Android starting in version
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Nation-State Hacker Group Hijacking DNS to Redirect …

‘Sea Turtle’ group has compromised at least 40 national security organizations in 13 countries so far, Cisco Talos says. A sophisticated state-sponsored hacking group is intercepting and redirecting Web and email traffic of targeted organizations in over a dozen countries in a brazen DNS hijacking campaign that has heightened fears over vulnerabilities in the Internet’s
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British Hacker Jailed for Role in Russian Crime Group

According to authorities, Zain Qaiser would pose as a legitimate ad broker to buy online advertising unit from pornographic websites. A British hacker who worked for a Russian crime syndicate has been sentenced to six years and five months in jail after a National Crime Agency (UK) investigation. Zain Qaiser was found to have received
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9 top hacker movies and TV shows of all time

A teenage hacker breaks into NORAD and almost starts a nuclear war. Ronald Reagan was so disturbed by the movie War Games that he signed into law the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a dog’s breakfast of a law that continues to loom over good-faith security researchers. Other, more lighthearted movies enchant infosec folks
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Hacker AI vs. Enterprise AI: A New Threat

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being weaponized using the same logic and functionality that legitimate organizations use. The adversarial use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in malicious ways by attackers may be embryonic, but the prospect is becoming real. It’s evolutionary: AI and ML gradually have found their way out of
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Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud

The hacker ran a botnet that spread ‘NeverQuest’ malware for three years and collected millions of banking credentials. Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, a Russian citizen accused of using the NeverQuest banking Trojan to steal login information from victims, has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking in Manhattan Federal Court. The crime
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Inside The Mind Of A Hacker

From Stolen Identity To Full-Blown Data Breach This webinar takes attendees “inside” the mind of today’s cyber-adversaries. You’ll learn how a privileged account hack propagates and ways to prevent it, including the importance of a PAM solution. Sponsored By: It is critically important to know how cyber-criminals target their victims, what you can do to
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