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Four members of China's People's Liberation Army have been indicted for allegedly hacking Equifax in 2017 and stealing the personal data of over 145 million Americans as well as a vast trove of the company's trade secrets and intellectual property, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday. U.S. Attorney General William Barr called the Justice Department's investigation of the Equifax data breach one of the largest and most complex criminal investigations ever undertaken.
DMARC can prevent spammers from using a trusted domain name to send junk mail, a useful tactic for the presidential campaigns and for your organization, according to security provider Valimail. Owners of legitimate domains can protect their names from being spoofed in junk mail through Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, a type of authentication that verifies email messages by checking the sender's domain.
The United States today announced criminal charges against four Chinese Army soldiers who, it is claimed, are the hackers who stole 145 million Americans' personal data from credit scorer Equifax. Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei, are all said to have been members of the People's Liberation Army's 54th Research Institute hacking team, and are accused of illegally accessed Equifax's customer databases.
Valentine's Day will give rise to romance scams, often directed toward people who use dating sites and apps. Victims of such scams sometimes avoid reporting them out of shame, embarrassment, or humiliation, according to the FBI. As such, the criminals can make a clean getaway.
The United States today announced criminal charges against four Chinese Army soldiers who, it is claimed, are the hackers who stole 145 million Americans' personal data from credit scorer Equifax. Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei, are all said to have been members of the People's Liberation Army's 54th Research Institute hacking team, and are accused of illegally accessed Equifax's customer databases.
U.S. authorities have charged four Chinese military officers in the 2017 Equifax data breach, which compromised the data of nearly 150 million. The four, Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke and Liu Lei, are believed to be members of the 54th Research Institute of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a component of the Chinese military.
More specifically, of the 15 current candidates, eight now protect their domains from email spoofing with enforced DMARC. In May 2019, when there were still 23 candidates, only three were protected by DMARC. DMARC works with two other email standards to give domain owners control over which senders are allowed to send messages 'as' them. Today, three domains have no DMARC, while four more have unenforced DMARC. Although running DMARC in 'unenforced' mode is often an indication that DMARC is in process of implementation, for so long as it is unenforced, there is no protection.
Hackers are using malicious emails about the coronavirus to trick people with a malware called AZORult. Hackers used emails about ways to prevent coronavirus contraction in Japan as a way to spread Emotet malware to unsuspecting victims while others sent out fake emails from the World Health Organization or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to trick people into giving away their email account passwords.
Four members of China's People's Liberation Army have been indicted for allegedly hacking Equifax in 2017 and stealing the personal data of over 145 million Americans as well as a vast trove of the company's trade secrets and intellectual property, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday. U.S. Attorney General William Barr called the Justice Department's investigation of the Equifax data breach one of the largest and most complex criminal investigations ever undertaken.
"Although setting up a Docker registry server is straightforward, securing the communication and enforcing the access control requires extra configurations," the company said in a posting on Friday, explaining that researchers found the exposed registries via Shodan and Censys searches. As the security firm explained, Docker registries are essentially cloud servers, which are used to store and organize Docker images.