by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee for Membrane Domain Security Equifax is one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the world. Ironically, Equifax provides “identity protection tools with daily monitoring and alerts today!” From May to July, 2017, Equifax allowed a cybersecurity breach to steal 143 million people’s identity. The stolen information includes social […]
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Huge Credit Agency Data Breach
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Also tagged data breach, Equifax, privacy, Security
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NSA Hack Set Loose on World
by Daniel Brouse for The Membrane Doamin It appears that malware hacked from the NSA in April 2017 has been set loose on the world. The massive ransomware infection hit at least 99 countries. The ransomware is called WannaCry. The source was leaked as part of the NSA spytools. The code was modified by hackers […]
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Also tagged computers, Internet, NSA, Security, WannaCry, WannaCrypt, WikiLeaks
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Russia Hacked 500 Million Yahoo Accounts
The Membrane Domain: Cybersecurity by the Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs A grand jury in the Northern District of California has indicted four defendants, including two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), for computer hacking, economic espionage and other criminal offenses in connection with a conspiracy, beginning in January 2014, to […]
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Trump Security Breach
For months, the security community has known that both the DNC and GOP were hacked. The DNC hack was used to undermine Hillary. The GOP / Trump hacks were meant for blackmailing Trump. No surprises here. U.S. security agencies were aware of Donald Trump’s security breaches since last summer. The information was in the public […]
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Also tagged Donald Trump, internet security, Russia, spearphishing, Trump Intelligence Allegations
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Yahoo Hacked
by Membrane Domain Cybersecurity In September, Yahoo disclosed that 500 million user accounts had been hacked. In December 2016, Yahoo announced that an additional one billion accounts had been hacked. “What’s most troubling is that this occurred so long ago, in August 2013, and no one saw any indication of a breach occurring until law […]