The Brennan Center for Justice's FOIA and subsequent legal action are designed in part to determine whether the government’s social media monitoring has suffered from mission creep.
Instant messaging platform Discord is being converted by 12 malicious PyPi packages into an information-stealing backdoor facilitating web browser- and Roblox-stored data exfiltration, reports BleepingComputer.
We don’t like it, but the hopeful internet we envisioned doesn’t look much like the internet as it exists today. Online conflict is widespread and at times the internet hurts more than it helps. In this podcast, we’ll discuss ways to inform today’s enterprise defense by better understanding strategy, tactics and operational art from government infl...
The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, reports that telecommunications firm AT&T has refuted claims that it had any connection to a database of stolen information uncovered by cybersecurity firm Hold Security.
Two House committee chairs are accusing Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joe Cuffari of stonewalling Congress and potentially violating the law by not turning over documents and communications around the deletion of Secret Service texts in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted to explore new regulations on commercial data surveillance, saying the growing practice raises the risk of data breaches, manipulation of consumers and other harmful practices.
Security analysts can move past traditional Indicators of Compromise from threat intel like domains, hashes, URLs, and IP addresses. These indicators typically aren't valid shortly after the incidents happen. Modern threat hunting by doing things like reading recent and relevant security articles, pull out behaviors that attackers are doing like co...
Ten malicious Python Package Index packages have been discovered by Check Point researchers to deploy info-stealers enabling the exfiltration of personal credentials and private data from software developers, reports The Hacker News.
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