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The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus

Posted on By infossl
cybercrime, data collection, doxing, finance, law enforcement, Security technology, Uncategorized

The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the … Read More “The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus” »

Details of an NSA Hacking Operation

Posted on By infossl
cybersecurity, doxing, hacking, nsa, russia, Security technology, Uncategorized

Pangu Lab in China just published a report of a hacking operation by the Equation Group (aka the NSA). It noticed the hack in 2013, and was able to map it with Equation Group tools published by the Shadow Brokers (aka some Russian group). …the scope of victims exceeded 287 targets in 45 countries, including … Read More “Details of an NSA Hacking Operation” »

Defense Against Doxing

Posted on By infossl
doxing, essays, google, googleglass, hacking, passwords, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

A decade ago, I wrote about the death of ephemeral conversation. As computers were becoming ubiquitous, some unintended changes happened, too. Before computers, what we said disappeared once we’d said it. Neither face-to-face conversations nor telephone conversations were routinely recorded. A permanent communication was something different and special; we called it correspondence. The Internet changed … Read More “Defense Against Doxing” »

Organizational Doxing and Disinformation

Posted on By infossl
dataloss, doxing, essays, forgery, hacking, Security technology

In the past few years, the devastating effects of hackers breaking into an organization’s network, stealing confidential data, and publishing everything have been made clear. It happened to the Democratic National Committee, to Sony, to the National Security Agency, to the cyber-arms weapons manufacturer Hacking Team, to the online adultery site Ashley Madison, and to … Read More “Organizational Doxing and Disinformation” »

Hacking the Vote

Posted on By infossl
doxing, essays, hacking, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology, voting

Russia has attacked the US in cyberspace in an attempt to influence our national election, many experts have concluded. We need to take this national security threat seriously and both respond and defend, despite the partisan nature of this particular attack. There is virtually no debate about that, either from the technical experts who analyzed … Read More “Hacking the Vote” »