Tor Brings Onion Browser to Android Devices
In parts of the developing world, dissidents and journalists face hostile governments and other threats — and mobile is their only access to the internet.
Government
U.S. Ties Lazarus to North Korea and Major Hacking Conspiracy
The DoJ said a DPRK spy, Park Jin-hyok, was involved in “a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world.”
The Vulnerability Disclosure Process: Still Broken
Despite the advent to bug bounty programs and enlightened vendors, researchers still complain of abuse, threats and lawsuits.
An advanced threat actor has been associated with China’s Ministry of State Security via two individuals and a Chinese firm.
DNC officials and Lookout believed a spoofed site was built to harvest authentication details for the Democratic voter database.
The DNC thwarts a phishing effort aimed at its voter database, days after Microsoft’s Fancy Bear disruption and Facebook’s efforts against Iranian propaganda.
The targets were scanned millions of times, and are all in some way linked to China’s ongoing economic development activities, according to Recorded Future.
Respondents in a survey from Venafi said they believe voting machines, encrypted communications from polling stations and databases that store voter registration data are all vulnerable.
Mike Murray, vice president of security intelligence at Lookout, discusses how mobile is redefining phishing, taking it out of the traditional inbox and into SMS and Facebook messages.
The Vote Hacking Village invited attendees – including kids as young as six – to hack the voting infrastructure, including ballot machines, a voter database and more.
