Tag Archive for: Identify

Court orders Facebook to identify revenge porn poster

The social network has been ordered by a Dutch court to either identify the uploader of a sex video or open its servers up to an independent investigator.
Naked Security – Sophos

Russia, China reportedly crack Snowden’s files, identify US, UK spies

Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies have reportedly decrypted files of former U.S. National Security Agency contractor and leaker Edward Snowden, and have identified British and U.S. secret agents.

MI6, the U.K.’s secret intelligence service, has withdrawn agents from overseas operations in hostile countries, according to a report in the Sunday Times of London, citing U.K. government officials and Western intelligence agencies.

The report contains some apparently contradictory information. Although The Sunday Times quoted a U.K. Home Office official saying that Snowden has “blood on his hands,” it also quoted a government source saying that there was no sign that agents have been hurt.

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Network World Security

IP address does not identify a person, judge tells copyright troll in BitTorrent case

A Florida District Court Judge recently determined that an IP address does not identify a specific individual guilty of infringing. She then dismissed a copyright troll’s case. This is considered an important ruling that may help set a trend that others will follow.
Ms. Smith’s blog

CloudSOC Pilots DNS Analytics to Identify Insider Threats and Sophisticated … – PR Newswire (press release)

CloudSOC Pilots DNS Analytics to Identify Insider Threats and Sophisticated
PR Newswire (press release)
Current research shows that all known state-sponsored malware and advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns exhibit DNS indicators of compromise (IOC). These campaigns include Stuxnet, Flame, Hidden Lynx, Operation Troy, The NetTraveler, 

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