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Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

Schneier on Security

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. This allows someone with a foothold on a machine to commandeer the whole box.

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Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

Security Boulevard

The post Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014 appeared first on Security Boulevard. , there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

Security Affairs

million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers across the US and Canada. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] 14, 2014: “Greetings Noel, “We’d like to offer Jordan Bloom the position of PHP developer reporting to Mike Morris for 75k CAD/Year. Abusewith[.]us

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Lab Walkthrough?—?Shockin’ Shells: ShellShock [CVE-2014–6271]

Pentester Academy

Lab Walkthrough — Shockin’ Shells: ShellShock [CVE-2014–6271] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Introduction Around mid-September 2014, the security community experienced a seemingly simple, yet nuanced bug in the popular shell interpreter bash. Originally published at [link].

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3 hacking forums have been hacked and database have been leaked online

Security Affairs

Three hacking forums Nulled.ch, Sinfulsite.com, and suxx.to have been hacked and their databases have been leaked online. Researchers from intelligence firm Cyble made the headlines again, this time they have discovered online the databases of three hacking forums. The databases appear to have been leaking in May 2020.

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Marriott Hack Reported as Chinese State-Sponsored

Schneier on Security

The New York Times and Reuters are reporting that China was behind the recent hack of Mariott Hotels. While China has emerged as the lead suspect in the case, the sources cautioned it was possible somebody else was behind the hack because other parties had access to the same hacking tools, some of which have previously been posted online.

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