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Uber’s ex-CSO avoids prison after data breach cover up

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After covering up a data breach that impacted the personal records of 57 million
Uber passengers and drivers, the company’s former Chief Security Officer has
been found guilty and sentenced by a US federal judge.

Joe Sullivan, a former security chief at Facebook, was the CSO at ride-sharing
firm Uber in October 2016 when hackers stole the names, email addresses, and
phone numbers of customers and drivers.

It later transpired that careless developers at the firm had left their login
credentials

News & Updates

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department paid a $1.1M ransom

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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that it has paid a $1.1-million ransom after the April ransomware attack. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department opted to pay a $1.1-million ransom after a ransomware attack infected its systems in early April. The ransomware attack forced the Police department to temporarily shut down some of its […]

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Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy

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An APT group tracked as Dragon Breath has been observed employing a new DLL sideloading technique. Sophos researchers observed an APT group, tracked as Dragon Breath (aka APT-Q-27 and Golden Eye), that is using a new DLL sideloading technique that adds complexity and layers to the execution of the classic DLL sideloading. The attack consists of a clean […]

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Cybersecurity Tools

How Far Have Facial Recognition Searches Come?

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Facial recognition technology is now more than six decades old. In the 1960s, a research team conducted experiments on whether computers could recognize faces. Researchers used a primitive tool to map eyes, hairlines, and noses. The computer’s job was to find matches, but it failed.  Modern-day advances  More recently, developers unveiled what is now known […]

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