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Four charged, including Russian gov’t agents, for massive Yahoo hack

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Mar

2017

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has charged four people, including two Russian state intelligence agents, for their involvement in a massive hack of Yahoo that affected half a billion accounts. In September, Yahoo said hackers had managed to steal personal data on more than 500 million users during an attack in late 2014. The […]

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The Yahoo hackers weren’t state-sponsored, a security firm says

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Sep

2016

Common criminals, not state-sponsored hackers, carried out the massive 2014 data breach that exposed information about millions of Yahoo user accounts, a security firm said Wednesday. Yahoo has blamed state actors for the attack, but it was actually elite hackers-for-hire who did it, according to InfoArmor, which claims to have some of the stolen information. […]

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The Attribution Question: Does It Matter Who Attacked You?

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Jun

2016

Everyone will ask whodunnit, but how can an organization put that information to practical use during disaster recovery and planning for the future? In normal life crises, the jump to assess blame is often the emotional reaction, but rarely the appropriate reaction. Assessing blame for who hit you with a cyber-attack, however — if not […]

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