No stalking spyware vendor, HackerOne won’t run your bug bounty program
HackerOne has refused to host a bug bounty program for spyware seller FlexiSPY on the grounds that the organization is operating illegally and unethically.
David Bisson reports.
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McAfee on its own as independent security vendor
Effective today, McAfee has officially spun out from Intel, dumping the name Intel Security and operating under new majority ownership that has deep pockets to help the company aggressively acquire technology via mergers and acquisitions to supplement home-grown innovations.
Investment firm TPG is making a $ 1.1 billion equity investment in McAfee in return for 51% ownership, giving it the cash it needs to buy companies for their technology so it can be incorporated faster into McAfee platforms than if developed via R&D.
That’s a different strategy than is used by Intel in its chip business. “Identifying what it takes to run a semiconductor company is quite different from running a cybersecurity company in a rapidly changing threat landscape,” says Intel Security’s CTO Steve Grobman.
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Hack of job-matching vendor puts Mainers’ personal data at risk – Press Herald
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Hack of job-matching vendor puts Mainers' personal data at risk
Press Herald Nine months after the Maine Department of Labor outsourced its federally mandated job-matching service to an out-of-state vendor, that vendor has suffered a data breach that resulted in the theft of an unknown number of Mainers' sensitive personal … |
DNC Hackers Are Using Apple Mac Spyware Code From FBI Surveillance Vendor, Claims Ex-NSA Researcher
Wardle compared the Hacking Team Mac malware, available on Wikileaks after a 2015 breach … Furthermore, the FSB was not the Russian organization linked by the U.S. government to the DNC hack; the military intelligence arm, known as the GRU, was instead …
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