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Botnets For Breakfast, Election Hacks For Snacks
Security & Fraud // August 11, 2017

Conspiracy theorists who think someone tampered with the 2016 U.S. election may actually have a case. The level of security on U.S. voting machines — or lack thereof — is practically an invitation to cyberhackers to tamper with election results, upload malicious software or compromise voter data....

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WannaCry Hero Says He Didn’t Hack People’s Bank Data

August 15, 2017
Marcus Hutchins, a 23-year-old British cybersecurity researcher and employee of L.A.-based Kryptos Logic, was arrested earlier this month in Las Vegas for building and selling malicious code known as “Kronos,” which was used to hack into and steal banking credentials between July 2014 and 2015. The Kronos malware was distributed as an email attachment. Once […]