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Security firm sues Microsoft, alleging tech giant misused trove of stolen logins and passwords

GeekWire

Microsoft says the lawsuit mischaracterizes its contract with Hold Security, and the company will seek to dismiss it. The Redmond-based company says it will seek to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Hold Security this week in King County Superior Court in Seattle. Microsoft says the allegations mischaracterize its agreement with the firm.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Damages: $350 million estimated loss in value of company. It was difficult timing for Yahoo, as they were in the process of being purchased by Verizon, decreasing the value of the company by $350 million. The company has been faulted for a number of security and response lapses, the application vulnerability being prime among them.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Damages: $350 million estimated loss in value of company. It was difficult timing for Yahoo, as they were in the process of being purchased by Verizon, decreasing the value of the company by $350 million. The company has been faulted for a number of security and response lapses, the application vulnerability being prime among them.

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U.S. blames China for Microsoft exploit, lists a Washington university among separate hack targets

GeekWire

” The attribution of the Exchange Server hacks builds on Microsoft’s identification of the hackers in March as the Chinese group Hafnium, which the company described at the time as a “highly skilled and sophisticated actor.” Both actions are part of a broader attempt by the U.S.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Hacker Revolution Will Be Televised

ForAllSecure

And Jordan now has his own company. When we founded the company eight years ago. And so it's kind of part of our culture, even if it wasn't part of the business plan, necessarily, of the company and so vectors have several of those connotations as well as like, attack vector, because we kind of had an offensive work.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m exploring a novel database operating system that promises to be disruptive to how we mitigate malware today. What if we could further evolve the basic operating system beyond just managing resources but also now mitigating any malware trying to make changes. The point of this?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election.

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