Trump Comments Straddle Line of Soliciting Computer Crime
Donald Trump may have left himself an out today when he urged Russian hackers to find 30,000 emails deleted by Hillary Clinton from her private server.
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NIST Recommends SMS Two-Factor Authentication Deprecation
The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) said SMS-based two factor authentication would soon be deprecated.
Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers
Kaspersky Lab researchers participated in a Reddit AMA, touching on topics such as attack attribution, critical infrastructure security, attacker and researcher tradecraft, and the shortage of security talent.
Yahoo has been given until August 31 to comply with a court order asking how the company was able to recover emails that were thought to be deleted.
Researchers at Northeastern University next week at DEF CON are expected to present a paper describing their framework for discovering Tor hidden services directories that snoop on hidden services.
EFF says security researchers are impinged by DMCA laws that prevent reverse engineering software to find security flaws.
A U.S. Federal Court sentenced Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros.
Automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is giving up to $1,500 to hackers who find bugs in its software.
A Congressional report accuses China of hacking the FDIC and the agency of covering up the attacks.
Dropping Elephant, an advanced persistent threat group, is using old exploits to target unpatched version of Windows in highly effective cyber espionage campaign.
