Cybersecurity

40 years ago today, I tripped over a 75-cent accounting glitch in a Unix system. That tiny clue led to a year-long chase across networks, modem banks, and international borders, ultimately uncovering a crew of German hackers working for the East German Stasi and the Soviet KGB. We had no budget, no roadmap, and no “cyber” anything. We improvised with soldering irons, shell scripts, logbooks, curiosity, and far too much coffee. Let’s revisit the chase – not just to remember, but to ask what changed, what didn’t, and why it still matters.

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram. MIT Technology Review identified nearly two dozen channels and groups purporting to break major crypto exchanges and name-brand banks

Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.

In other news: CBO breach not contained; CISA 2015 set for a three-month extension; new OWASP Top 10.

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The information you share online can reveal more details then you intend and make you vulnerable to compromise.

Millions of login credentials just leaked online, and yours might be among them.

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A cybersecurity expert has created a proof of concept for CPU ransomware.

Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.