Will Yakowicz reports: For some entrepreneurs, getting customers is a matter of marketing. For Jobert Abma and Michiel Prins, it’s a matter of sniffing out security vulnerabilities and staving off cyber threats. The two self-taught computer hackers today lead HackerOne, one of the largest white-hat hacking platforms in the world. With $74 million in venture funding from the likes of…
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Tech & Security Companies Sign Cybersecurity Tech Accord
David Bender writes: Today, 34 global technology and security companies announced that they have signed a Cybersecurity Tech Accord, which publicly commits them “to protect and empower civilians online and to improve the security, stability and resilience of cyberspace.” The signatories include Cisco, Dell, Facebook, HP, Intuit, and Microsoft. The text of the Accord references…
New Spyware Company ‘Grey Heron’ Is Linked to Hacking Team
Joseph Cox and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai report: In early March, Motherboard reported that a new, mysterious government-malware company called Grey Heron is advertising malware designed to steal data from Signal and Telegram messaging apps. The company seemingly came out of nowhere, suddenly advertising its wares at surveillance fairs over the last few months. But Grey Heron…
Another day and Another Bulk Breach Dump Totaling over 3.4 Billion Credentials.
CyberWarNews.info reports: Reshared, Recycled, Swapped and Sold breach data is being a common thing and well once again someone has complied a bunch of public and not so public combo lists from well known previous breaches that when combined have a total of 3,443,684,697 Emails with 2,914,838,915 of them being unique leaving only about 333K…
Correction
On January 20, a story about a former Santander bank manager pleading guilty to computer misuse was incorrectly credited to Brinkwire. The report was authored by Gareth Corfield of The Register. Databreaches.net apologizes to the reporter and journal for failing to credit their work properly.
QOTD
Quote of the Day: Until you have backups, you don’t have a database. What you have is a prolonged period of optimism. — Laurie Voss.