DOJ Dismisses Playpen Case to Keep Tor Hack Private
Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice dropped their case against a suspect who visited the dark web site child pornography site Playpen.
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Bruce Schneier on IoT Regulation
Bruce Schneier talks about the early days of the RSA Conference, his campaign for IoT regulation, and more.
Threatpost News Wrap, March 3, 2017
The news of the week is recapped, including the fallout around CloudBleed, the CloudPets breach, and a Slack token bug. The life of Howard Schmidt is also remembered.
Decryption keys for the Dharma strain of ransomware have been released.
The cloud-based collaboration tool Slack was quick to fix a bug earlier this month that could have let an attacker steal a user’s private Slack token.
Siemens line RUGGEDCOM NMS products suffers from vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to perform administrative actions.
Researchers claim the unpatched SMB zero day that affects Windows can be exploited a number of ways.
A Boeing employee inadvertently leaked the personal information of 36,000 of his co-workers late last year when he emailed a company spreadsheet to his non-Boeing spouse.
Katie Moussouris on how bug bounty programs have gone mainstream, the success of Hack the Pentagon and Hack the Army, and where things stand with the Wassenaar Arrangement.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA and discuss the news of the week including the impact of Cloudflare’s “Cloudbleed” bug, Google breaking SHA-1, and more.
