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The pair were performing a routine penetration test at the Dallas County courthouse at night when they tripped an alarm, were collared by deputies, and, ultimately, charged with felony trespassing - a crime that can lead to up to seven years behind bars. Part of the problem, the two professional attackers told the Black Hat online conference today, was the imprecise terms of the penetration tests Coalfire was hired to perform at the request of the US state of Iowa.
The pair were performing a routine penetration test at the Dallas County courthouse at night when they tripped an alarm, were collared by deputies, and, ultimately, charged with felony trespassing - a crime that can lead to up to seven years behind bars. Part of the problem, the two professional attackers told the Black Hat online conference today, was the imprecise terms of the penetration tests Coalfire was hired to perform at the request of the US state of Iowa.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals with allegedly hacking hundreds of organizations and individuals in America and elsewhere to steal confidential corporate secrets on behalf of Beijing for more than a decade. The US claims that the two accused worked both for themselves and with the backing of the Chinese government's Ministry of State Security.
Together, Bitglass and Duo balance enterprise-grade access control and data protection with the flexibility and seamless user experience needed to support a global, remote, and multi-device workforce. It is crucial organizations adjust their security strategies as employees can download, upload, and share data from personal devices or public networks, meaning data is traveling beyond the corporate firewall.
Google has updated Chrome for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address three security vulnerabilities - and exploit code for one of them is already public, so get patching. Interestingly enough, at the time, this public source-code tweak was spotted and studied by Exodus Intelligence researchers István Kurucsai and Vignesh Rao, who hoped to see whether it's still practical to identify security bug fixes among code changes in the Chromium source tree and develop an exploit before the patch sees an official release, a practice known as patch-gapping.
Google has updated Chrome for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address three security vulnerabilities - and exploit code for one of them is already public, so get patching. Interestingly enough, at the time, this public source-code tweak was spotted and studied by Exodus Intelligence researchers István Kurucsai and Vignesh Rao, who hoped to see whether it's still practical to identify security bug fixes among code changes in the Chromium source tree and develop an exploit before the patch sees an official release, a practice known as patch-gapping.
Since 2007, the two allegedly operated a cybercrime ring called "Bayrob Group."
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