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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal.

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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

The Notice further states that the data will never be shared with marketing or insurance companies. Although, data shared with e.g., a pharmaceutical company for research purposes would be made in reliance on NHS Digital’s legitimate interests. the right to object and/or erase personal data) do not apply.

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AI and Trust

Schneier on Security

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. If we were a roomful of chimpanzees, this would be impossible. We trust many thousands of times a day. Society can’t function without it. And that we don’t even think about it is a measure of how well it all works. In this talk, I am going to make several arguments.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012.