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Facebook is struggling to meet the burden of securing itself, security chief says

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Enlarge / Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos. (credit: Dave Maass)

Facebook is Struggling to live up to the responsibility it faces for adequately securing the vast amount of personal information it amasses, the social network’s top security executive said in a leaked phone call with company employees.

“The threats that we are facing have increased significantly and the quality of the adversaries that we are facing,” Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said during a taped call, which was reported Thursday by ZDNet. “Both technically and from a cultural perspective, I don’t feel like we have caught up with our responsibility.”

He continued:

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Cerber Renames Itself as CRBR ENCRYPTOR to Be a PITA – BleepingComputer

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Cerber Renames Itself as CRBR ENCRYPTOR to Be a PITA
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First we have reports from exploit kit researcher Zerophage that Cerber is being distributed through the MagnitudeEK exploit kit. Using an exploit, malware purveyors are able to install Cerber on vulnerable victims machines when they visit a site …

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Spooked by Trump, Internet Archive looks to make a copy of itself … in Canada

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The folks who run the indispensable Internet Archive Wayback Machine, among other services, have seen the future of a Trump Administration and it scares them enough to spur the creation of the Internet Archive of Canada … just in case.

From the organization’s blog post today:

The history of libraries is one of loss.  The Library of Alexandria is best known for its disappearance.

Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines: Earthquakes, legal regimes, institutional failure.

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