Now that a proposed revision to the Wassenaar Arrangement has been rejected, it will be up to the Trump administration to decide whether to attempt to renegotiate again.
Stolen Yahoo Data Sold to Spammers, One Government Client
Experts at InfoArmor said the stolen database of 1 billion Yahoo accounts has been sold multiple times for at least $300,000 each time.
ShadowBrokers Dump Came from Internal Code Repository, Insider
Researchers at Flashpoint said their analysis of the latest ShadowBrokers dump of NSA tools leads them to believe an insider with access to a code repository stole the data.
A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations
“Over a century of fear and filing cabinets” at the FBI has been exposed through six years of Freedom of Information Act requests. And now MuckRock founder (and long-time Slashdot reader) v3rgEz writes: MuckRock recently published its 100th look into…
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots
Friday the United Nations agreed to discuss a ban on “killer robots” in 2017. The 123 signatories to a long-standing conventional weapons pact “agreed to formalize their efforts next year to deal with the challenges raised by weapons systems that…
SQL Injection Attack is Tied to Election Commission Breach
A hacker offered to sell an unpatched system vulnerability in the U.S. Election Assistance Commission website on the Dark Web for “thousands” of dollars.
Law Enforcement Targets Users of DDoS-For-Hire Services
Law enforcement from more than a dozen countries last week carried out a series of operations designed to crack down on DDoS-for-hire services.
Google Discloses Contents of Eight National Security Letters
Google Tuesday disclosed the contents of eight National Security Letters it received between 2010 and 2015, becoming the latest company under reforms afforded by the USA Freedom Act to do so.
German Industrial Giant Victim of Cyber Espionage
German industrial firm ThyssenKrupp said it’s working with authorities to investigate a data breach of unspecified amount of internal data.
NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security
A team of New York University students architected a permissioned blockchain system called Votebook that could be applied to secure electronic voting. Their solution was the winning entry of the Cybersecurity Case Study Competition sponsored by Kaspersky Lab and The…