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  • ISPs Could Sell User Web Data with Senate Vote - Threat Wire
    Symantec issued HTTPS certificates are on Google’s chopping block, the Senate votes to allow ISPs to sell web search data, Wikileaks says the CIA targets Apple devices, and John Deere tractors are being hacked. All that coming up now on ThreatWire.
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    Links:https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/google-invalidate-symantec-certs.html https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/google-takes-symantec-to-the-woodshed-for-mis-issuing-30000-https-certs/ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/eUAKwjihhBs%5B1-25%5D 
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/isp-to-sell-browsing-data.html https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-isps-can-sell-your-web-history-and-how-to-stop-them/ https://theintercept.com/2017/03/23/the-senate-just-voted-to-sell-you-out-to-advertisers/ https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/senate-republicans-vote-to-allow-isps-to-sell-your-private-data https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00094 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-your-isp-could-do-if-congress-repeals-fccs-privacy-protections 
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-mac-iphone-hacking.html https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/new-wikileaks-dump-the-cia-built-thunderbolt-exploit-implants-to-target-macs/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/apple-says-recent-wikileaks-cia-docs-detail-old-fixed-iphone-and-mac-exploits/ https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/ 
    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware Via: DcyMatrix
     
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    10 min
  • WhatsApp Web App Account Takeover, and Yahoo Hackers Indicted - Threat Wire
    Twitter Counter gets hacked, WhatsApp and Telegram web apps vulnerable to account takeovers, four have been indicted in one of the Yahoo hacks, and the White House has a new cybersecurity coordinator. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
     
    Links:
    https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-hack-fills-high-profile-accounts-with-nazi-references/
    http://blog.twittercounter.com/2017/03/turkish-spam-and-cyber-defences/?utm_content=buffer22f5d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
    https://twitter.com/thecounter/status/841936613752094721
    https://www.wired.com/2017/03/hack-brief-high-profile-twitter-accounts-overrun-swastikas/
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/twitter-account-hack.html
     
    https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-telegram-flaws-left-accounts-vulnerable-to-hackers/
    http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/03/15/check-point-discloses-vulnerability-whatsapp-telegram/
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/hack-whatsapp-telegram-account.html
    https://www.wired.com/2017/03/whatsapp-hack-shows-even-encryption-apps-vulnerable-browser/
     
    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/four-men-charged-with-hacking-500m-yahoo-accounts/
    https://www.wired.com/2017/03/yahoo-hack-russia-indictment/
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-fsb-officers-and-their-criminal-conspirators-hacking-yahoo-and-millions
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/fbi-hints-that-hack-of-semi-privileged-yahoo-employee-led-to-massive-breach/
    https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-russian-spies-hack-cyber-security-department-of-justice-charged-breach/
     
    https://fcw.com/articles/2017/03/15/joyce-white-house-cyber.aspx
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJb8WOJYdA
    https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls
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    8 min
  • CIA Hacking Tools Released in Wikileaks Vault 7 - Threat Wire
    Wikileaks publicizes Vault 7, 8000 plus pages of CIA documents. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
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    Links:https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839105996429668352 https://twitter.com/whispersystems/status/839204754718932992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://wikileaks.com/ciav7p1/cms/page_11629096.html https://wikileaks.com/ciav7p1/cms/files/iOS%20Exploits%20-%20iOS%20-%20EDG%20Confluence.pdf https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_12353643.html https://www.cnet.com/news/weeping-angel-hack-samsung-smart-tv-cia-wikileaks/ https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_7995642.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_20873532.html http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-wikileaks-leak-idUSKBN16F2CZ https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/videos/1262453947123048/ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-android-chrome-cia-exploits-wikileaks-vault-7-julian-assange/ https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-systems-seem-safe-from-wikileaks-alleged-cia-hacks/ https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-cia-wikileaks-vault-7-ios-patches-vulnerabilities/ https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2017-press-releases-statements/cia-statement-on-claims-by-wikileaks.html https://www.cnet.com/news/cias-alleged-hackers-are-fixated-with-pokemon-in-vault-7-leak/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/a-look-at-the-cias-internal-dank-meme-division/ 
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    12 min
  • FCC Stays Privacy Regulations, CloudPets Ignores Hack, and 32 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked - Threat Wire
    The FCC stays privacy regulations for consumers, 32 million total yahoo accounts were hacked with that cookie problem a few months ago, and CloudPets is really digging themselves into a grave with this toy hack. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
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    https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-341937A1.pdf
    https://www.hak5.org/episodes/threatwire/are-hacker-counterattacks-legal-threat-wire
    https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0301/DOC-343702A1.pdf
    https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-148A5.pdf
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-head-ajit-pai-you-can-thank-me-for-carriers-new-unlimited-data-plans/
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/paid-data-cap-exemptions-can-still-be-big-despite-rise-of-unlimited-data/
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/robocalls-begone-fcc-seeks-to-block-calls-from-spoofed-numbers/
    https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2017/03/02/springing-forward-public-interest-fcc%E2%80%99s-march-agenda
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/marissa-mayer-forgoes-bonus-after-yahoo-botches-hack-investigation/
    https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-says-forged-cookie-attack-accessed-about-32m-accounts/
    https://investor.yahoo.net/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-65791&CIK=1011006&soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
     
    https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-and-ransomed-exposing-kids-voice-messages/
    http://www.networkworld.com/article/3175225/security/smart-teddy-bears-involved-in-a-contentious-data-breach.html
    Youtube Thumbnail credit:
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    8 min
  • SHA-1 is Officially Dead and What is CloudBleed? - Threat Wire
    Cloudflare experiences a bug, SHA-1 is officially dead, and a man accused of DDoSing almost a million people has been arrested. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
     
    Links:
    https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/
    https://twitter.com/taviso/status/832744397800214528
    https://www.cnet.com/how-to/cloudbleed-bug-everything-you-need-to-know/
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
    https://www.troyhunt.com/pragmatic-thoughts-on-cloudbleed/
    https://medium.com/@octal/cloudbleed-how-to-deal-with-it-150e907fd165#.b1zg99ry2
    http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/
    https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare
    https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/02/23/three-layers-of-encryption-keeps-you-safe-when-ssltls-fails/
     
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/sha1-collision-attack.html
    https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/at-deaths-door-for-years-widely-used-sha1-function-is-now-dead/
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/watershed-sha1-collision-just-broke-the-webkit-repository-others-may-follow/
    https://shattered.io/static/shattered-1.pdf
    https://shattered.io/static/shattered-2.pdf
    https://shattered.io/
    https://shattered.io/static/shattered.pdf
     
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/mirai-router-hacking.html
    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/police-have-arrested-a-suspect-in-a-massive-internet-of-things-attack
    http://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/7/3568074
    http://www.spoofit.org/bestbuy-vdos-reloaded/
    http://www.spoofit.org/lonestarcell.txt
     
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    8 min
  • Operation BugDrop Targets Ukrainian Infrastructure - Threat Wire
    Malware can record your conversations, Trump is under fire from Congress representatives, and connected car apps are vulnerable to hacks. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
     
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    Links:
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/hackers-who-took-control-of-pc-microphones-siphon-600-gb-from-70-targets/
    https://cyberx-labs.com/en/blog/operation-bugdrop-cyberx-discovers-large-scale-cyber-reconnaissance-operation/
     
    https://www.cnet.com/news/congressman-pushes-for-investigation-on-trumps-android-phone/
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/trumps-apparent-string-of-security-faux-pas-trigger-call-for-house-investigation/
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468050-2017-02-15-Letter-to-Chaffetz-Hearing-on-Trump.html
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/secure-trump-website-defaced-by-hacker-claiming-to-be-from-iraq/
     
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/android-connected-car-apps-could-give-up-the-keys-to-criminals/
    https://www.wired.com/2017/02/hacked-android-phones-unlock-millions-cars/
     
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    6 min
  • Steam Profile XSS Attack - Threat Wire
    Simply viewing a Steam profile could put you at risk, Wordpress fixes a rather big problem, and WhatsApp introduces two step verification. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
     
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    Links:
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/as-valve-eradicates-serious-bug-in-steam-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5skfg4/warning_regarding_a_steam_profile_related_exploit/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5srlwd/the_steam_community_exploit_explained_indepth_by/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGF_QO3W3GQ
     
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/virally-growing-attacks-on-unpatched-wordpress-sites-affects-2m-pages/
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/wordpress-hack-seo.html
    https://threatpost.com/attackers-capitalizing-on-unpatched-wordpress-sites/123617/
    https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/wordpress-rest-api-vulnerability-abused-in-defacement-campaigns.html
    https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/
     
    http://www.phonearena.com/news/WhatsApp-now-using-a-two-step-verification-process_id90874
    https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/26000021
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    6 min
  • House of Reps Passes New Email Privacy Act - Threat Wire
    Facebook is trying to make password recovery more secure, Vizio is watching you, and the ECPA sorely needs an update. All that coming up now on Threat Wire.
     
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    Links:
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/forgotten-passwords-are-bane-of-the-internet-facebook-wants-to-fix-that/
    https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/improving-account-security-with-delegated-recovery/1833022090271267/
    https://github.com/facebookincubator/DelegatedRecovery/
     
    http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/6/14522582/vizio-ftc-lawsuit-tv-viewing-habits-tracking-privacy
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/vizio-smart-tvs-tracked-viewers-around-the-clock-without-consent/
    https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/02/vizio-pay-22-million-ftc-state-new-jersey-settle-charges-it
    https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/vizio-settlement-smart-tvs-should-not-track-your-shows-without-your-ok
     
    http://www.multichannel.com/news/congress/house-passes-e-mail-privacy-act/410716
    https://www.wired.com/2017/02/trump-power-email-privacy-act-never-urgent/
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    7 min
  • New FCC, No More Net Neutrality? Facebook Adds Security Keys! - Threat Wire
    Facebook now supports security keys, DCs cameras were hacked days before the inauguration, and a new FCC boss could mean bad news for net neutrality. Coming up now on Threat Wire.
     
    Links:
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/now-theres-a-better-way-to-prevent-facebook-account-takeovers/
    https://www.facebook.com/help/401566786855239
    https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-passwords-login-with-key-token-two-factor-authentication/
    https://thehackernews.com/2017/01/facebook-u2f-security-key.html
     
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hackers-hit-dc-police-closed-circuit-camera-network-city-officials-disclose/2017/01/27/d285a4a4-e4f5-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.69fe56a98768#comments
    https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/dc-police-surveillance-cameras-were-infected-with-ransomware-before-inauguration/
     
    https://motherboard.vice.com/read/net-neutrality-advocates-blast-trumps-new-fcc-boss-ajit-pai
    https://motherboard.vice.com/read/trumps-reported-pick-to-run-the-fcc-ajit-pai-wants-to-kill-net-neutrality?utm_source=mbtwitter
    https://motherboard.vice.com/read/net-neutrality-passes-but-the-fight-isnt-over
    https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0123/DOC-343145A1.pdf
    https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/ajit-pai
    7 min
  • Meitu, Spyware or Just Plain Kawaii - Threat Wire
    Meitu is super kawaii, but is it spyware?, Lavabit is Back!, Chelsea Manning’s jail time gets commuted, and the US people still needs pix or it didn’t happen regarding Russia’s hacks of the DNC and RNC. Coming up now on Threat Wire.
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    Links:http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/meitu-anime-beauty-app-privacy-holes/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/anime-selfies-app-meitu-is-crapware-that-collects-private-datahttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3386200-Meitu-Statement-Final.htmlhttps://twitter.com/Laughing_Mantis/status/821978447551397888https://twitter.com/FourOctets/status/821987457520369664
    http://www.businessinsider.com/lavabit-encrypted-email-service-used-by-edward-snowden-relaunches-privacy-2017-1https://theintercept.com/2017/01/20/encrypted-email-service-once-used-by-edward-snowden-to-relaunch/https://lavabit.com/
    https://theintercept.com/2017/01/18/russia-allows-edward-snowden-to-remain-through-2020/https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/chelsea-manning-will-be-free-in-may/http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/gender-dysphoria#1
    https://www.wired.com/2017/01/feds-damning-report-russian-election-hack-wont-convince-skeptics/https://www.wired.com/2017/01/russia-hacked-older-republican-emails-fbi-director-says/
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    7 min

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