Here is the weekly roundup :
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Weebly Hack Sees 43 Million User Credentials Stolen
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San Francisco-based Weebly.com, a “drag-n-drop” website creator's database has been breached, leaking the user details of over 43 million users.
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The Russian Hacker Arrested in Prague is Allegedly Behind the LinkedIn Breach
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A Russian-national hacker in Prague has been arrested by the Czech police in a cooperative effort with the FBI. The accused hacker is said to be behind the comprehensive LinkedIn breach of 2012 which compromised some 100 million users' information.
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Montenegro Election Day Sees DDoS Attacks from Cybercriminals
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The Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunications of Montenegro have revealed that on the day of the country’s parliamentary elections, several prominent websites were targeted by cybercriminals with DDoS attacks.
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Researchers Show NSA’s Capability to Break Trillions of Encrypted Connections
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Researchers have fundamentally proven that NSA broke the most-widely used encryption on the internet.
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Delivered Data Access to a Surveillance Tool Developer
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Data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Picasa were being harvested by a Chicago startup via a social media monitoring tool, which was then sold to law enforcement agencies for surveillance, a report has revealed.
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Upcomming Events
RIMS Conference
October 24, 1:15 PM
Atlanta, Georgia
LIFARS CEO and Founder, Ondrej Krehel, will discuss ransomware and how to mitigate cyber risks.
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Privacy + Security Forum
October 24 - 26,
Washington, DC
LIFARS CEO will be a panelist on 10/25 at the Privacy + Security Forum, discussing the best practices for responding to a data breach.
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Qubit Conference
4th Annual Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
Community Event on April 5 - 6th, 2017
Prague
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From Around the Web:
Why Poor Cyber Hygiene Invites Risk
Modern cybersecurity today is all about risk management. That means eliminating and mitigating risks where possible, and knowingly accepting those that remain.
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