British Court Rejects U.S. Request to Extradite WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

A British court has rejected the U.S. government's request to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country on charges pertaining to illegally obtaining and sharing classified material related to national security. In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, Judge Vanessa Baraitser denied the extradition on the grounds that Assange is a suicide risk and extradition to the
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StrongPity APT Extends CyberAttack WorldWide with it’s New Infrastructure

StrongPity or Promethium APT, also referred to as APT-C-41, has been active since 2012. It had been first publicly reported in October 2016, after cyberattacks against users in Belgium and Italy during which it used the watering-hole attack technique to deliver malicious versions of WinRAR and the TrueCrypt file encryption software. The group mainly uses […] The post StrongPity APT Extends CyberAttack WorldWide with it’s New Infrastructure appeared first on Cyber Security News.
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A Smorgasbord of Bad Takedowns: 2020 Year in Review

Read the original article: A Smorgasbord of Bad Takedowns: 2020 Year in Review Here at EFF, we take particular notice of the way that intellectual property law leads to expression being removed from the Internet. We document the worst examples… Read more → The post A Smorgasbord of Bad Takedowns: 2020 Year in Review first appeared on IT Security News.
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Booz Allen Leads New Frost & Sullivan Security Report

Read the original article: Booz Allen Leads New Frost & Sullivan Security Report MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frost & Sullivan, a leading market research and strategy firm, ranked Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) as holding the largest single market share in Managed… Read more → The post Booz Allen Leads New Frost & Sullivan Security Report first appeared on IT Security News.
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DNS, DoH, and ODoH, Oh My: Year-in-Review 2020

Read the original article: DNS, DoH, and ODoH, Oh My: Year-in-Review 2020 Government knowledge of what sites activists have visited can put them at risk of serious injury, arrest, or even death. This makes it a vitally important priority to… Read more → The post DNS, DoH, and ODoH, Oh My: Year-in-Review 2020 first appeared on IT Security News.
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Ticketmaster To Pay $10 Million Fine For Hacking A Rival Company

Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine after being charged with illegally accessing computer systems of a competitor repeatedly between 2013 and 2015 in an attempt to "cut [the company] off at the knees." A subsidiary of Live Nation, the California-based ticket sales and distribution company used the stolen information to gain an advantage over CrowdSurge — which merged with Songkick
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Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways

Read the original article: Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways The username and password (zyfwp/PrOw!aN_fXp) were visible in one of the Zyxel firmware binaries.   Become a supporter of IT Security News and help us… Read more → The post Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways first appeared on IT Security News.
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Expert found a secret backdoor in Zyxel firewall and VPN

Read the original article: Expert found a secret backdoor in Zyxel firewall and VPN Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583, related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has addressed… Read more → The post Expert found a secret backdoor in Zyxel firewall and VPN first appeared on IT Security News.
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Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Accessed Some of Its Source Code

Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network. The "very sophisticated nation-state actor" used the unauthorized access to view, but not modify, the source code present in its repositories, the company said. "We detected
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Online frauds increased by 70% because of Corona Virus

Read the original article: Online frauds increased by 70% because of Corona Virus Online Frauds such as shopping, dating and finance related have increased by 70% in 2020 says a research carried out by Action fraud. The intelligence unit of… Read more → The post Online frauds increased by 70% because of Corona Virus first appeared on IT Security News.
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