Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations
or one month's worth of revenue Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation Howard Lindzon : Why Facebook Needs Libra Mark Wyciślik-Wilson ...
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips
And Face Their Own Backlash Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware : Report Claims AMD Ryzen, EPYC CPUs Contain 13 Security Flaws (Updated) Viceroy Research : AMD - The Obituary — Viceroy analyze CTS Labs' re...
Critical flaw found in Apache Struts, a popular Java web app framework, has been present since 2008, and may affect 65% of Fortune 500 firms; patch is available
With nothing but a web browser … Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Critical Flaw in Apache Struts2 Lets Hackers Take Over Web Servers Tom Spring / Threatpost : Patch Released for Critical Apache St...
Sources: dark web market AlphaBay shut down by law enforcement in US, Canada, and Thailand; one alleged operator found hanged in Thailand prison after arrest
Saturday, July 15, 2017 Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : AlphaBay dark web drugs and credit card market shut down Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Dark web market Alpha Bay was shut down by law enfor...
Hacker steals 900GB of data from Cellebrite, the Israeli company that makes products for breaking into mobile phones
Saturday, January 14, 2016 Cellebrite : Petah Tikvah, IL—January 12, 2017—Cellebrite recently experienced … Tim Cushing / Techdirt : Cell Phone Hacking Company Hacked; 900 GB Of Logins, Log Files, And...
US Justice Department confirms arrest of NSA contractor accused of stealing classified information
Snowden Says ‘This Is Huge’ Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek : Another NSA Contractor Charged With Theft of Classified Info Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : After Snowden, Another Booz Allen Contractor Accus...