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Wikileaks publishes two more Mac-specific exploits from CIA Vault 7 files

If you’re interested in security, you’ll like this. Wikileaks has just Wikileaks published two more Mac exploits from the so-called CIA Vault 7 under the name Project Imperial. The new exploits—Achilles and SeaPea—affect older versions of OS X, such as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The exploits behave […]

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Yahoo discloses details of August 2013 hack, says more than one billion accounts compromised in effort

It doesn’t look good when half a billion of your company’s email accounts are hacked. And it looks a bit worse when a cool billion of them in total were hacked. Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an unauthorized third party […]

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Apple to launch Bug Bounty program, will pay up to $200,000 to hackers, cryptographers and researchers depending on bugs found

Ok, this is pretty neat. Yesterday at the Black Hat conference, an annual event designed for the global InfoSec community, Apple’s head of security engineering Ivan Krstic announced the launch of a bug bounty program that will see Apple paying money to individuals who discover major bugs and security flaws in the company’s software. Many […]

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FBI may have contacted “grey hat” hacker group along with Cellebrite to unlock San Bernadino iPhone 5c

The plot continues to thicken. A group of unnamed sources cited by the Washington Post contradict the widely-held belief that it was Israel-based mobile forensics company Cellebrite which helped the FBI hack into the locked San Bernardino iPhone. The report say that the agency was instead approached by a group of freelance hackers who revealed […]

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Leaked files outline NSA-sponsored hacker training, use of vulnerability within Safari web browser to gain access to devices

It’s interesting what the intelligence community gets up to in its day to day work. According to Spiegel Online International, the Politerain hiring process posted ads for candidates who wanted “to break things.” Politerain is not a project associated with a conventional company. It is run by a US government intelligence organization, the National Security […]