Whenever some organization has a big data breach--especially one that leaks social security numbers--security experts recommend you sign up for credit monitoring services to watch for ID thieves opening accounts in your name. However, what happens when the credit monitoring organization is the one that leaked your data!? Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened with the … [Read more...]

An anonymous hacker claims to have hijacked a Mandiant researcher's computer and gained access to Mandiant and FireEye's network. So far there is no proof of these claims other than a PasteBin post with a data dump. While the dump does contain some of the hijacked researcher's personal data from cloud accounts, it doesn't really contain any hard proof about the attacker's wider … [Read more...]

The biggest story last week, by far, was the CIA Vault 7 leak. Wikileaks, a well-known information leak site, released over 8000 documents detailing the CIA's hacking tools and operations. The documents contain information about how the CIA hacks phones, PCs, and even TVs, among other things. Allegedly, the documents even contained exploit and source code for these hackings … [Read more...]