Experts Denounce Racial Bias of Crime-Predictive Facial-Recognition AI

More than 1,000 technology experts and academics from organizations such as MIT, Microsoft, Harvard and Google have signed an open letter denouncing a forthcoming paper describing artificial intelligence AI algorithms that can predict crime based only on a person’s face, calling it out for...

Black Lives Matter Emails Deliver TrickBot Malware

Cyberattackers are seizing upon the 24-hour news cycle again in order to capitalize on the current zeitgeist – this time with a fake Black Lives Matter malspam campaign that distributes the TrickBot malware. According to Swiss security firm Abuse.ch, threat actors are posing as government...

Black Lives Matter movement exploited to spread Trickbot malware

By Deeba Ahmed This shows there’s certainly no limit to the meanness and notoriety of cybercriminals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Black Lives Matter movement exploited to spread Trickbot malware...

Broadcast Operations Control Center (BOCC): Enabling OTT Broadcast Operations

So, what is the BOCC? Simply put, Akamai runs a state-of-the-art Broadcast Operations Control Centre, the BOCC, to help ensure smooth and seamless end-user play-back experience for live OTT Over the Top and linear video delivered through Akamai Media Delivery Solutions. To phrase it more...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – WindTail (OSX)

Summary Dark Matter researcher Taha Karim recently presented his research on the APT group WindShift at Hack in the Box Singapore. This group primarily focuses on highly targeted campaigns directed toward Middle Eastern government and commercial entities. One of the custom macOS backdoors employe...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Russian Government Cyber Activity

NCCIC is holding a webinar on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure as detailed in NCCIC Alert TA18-074A today from 1–2:30 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature NCCIC subject matter experts discussing recent cybersecurity incidents, mitigation techniques, and resources tha...

Wikileaks Unveils CIA's Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle MitM attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA to target local networks. Since March, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents and other secret tools that the...

WikiLeaks Dark Matter Release Shows CIA Interdiction of iPhone Supply Chain

From the early days of the iPhone, the CIA has had an interest in compromising the flagship Apple mobile device, according to the latest WikiLeaks release of CIA documents. Today’s Vault 7 Dark Matter release shows an unsurprising interest from the intelligence agency in tracking iPhone users, as...

Wikileaks Reveals How CIA Was Hacking Your iPhones And MacBooks

As part of its "Vault 7" series, Wikileaks — the popular whistle-blowing platform — has just released another batch of classified documents focused on exploits and hacking techniques the Central Intelligence Agency CIA designed to target Apple MacOS and iOS devices. Dubbed "Dark Matter," the leak...

Reporting LIVE from the HIMSS 2015 Cybersecurity Command Center

Well, its not exactly live anymore but it certainly was worth tweeting live from the brand new Cybersecurity Command Center CCC at HIMSS 2015 in Chicago a couple weeks ago given all the excitement. The CCC was the place to be at HIMSS this year with standing room only at the educational sessions...

Sony Pictures HACKED; Studio-Staff Computers Seized by Hackers

It’s a bad day for Sony yesterday!! Sony appears to be hacked once again by hackers, but this time not its PlayStation, instead its Sony Pictures Entertainment – the company’s motion picture, television production and distribution unit. According to multiple reports, the corporate computers of So...