Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. The 33-year-old engineer had been charged in June 2018 with unauthorized disclosure of classified information and theft of classified material. Schulte also faces a separate trial on … [Read more...] about Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking ‘Vault 7’ Hacking Secrets to Wikileaks
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Travis CI Flaw Exposes Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects
Continuous integration vendor Travis CI has patched a serious security flaw that exposed API keys, access tokens, and credentials, potentially putting organizations that use public source code repositories at risk of further attacks. The issue — tracked as CVE-2021-41077 — concerns unauthorized access and plunder of secret environment data associated with a public open-source … [Read more...] about Travis CI Flaw Exposes Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects
Microsoft Edge Bug Could’ve Let Hackers Steal Your Secrets for Any Site
Microsoft last week rolled out updates for the Edge browser with fixes for two security issues, one of which concerns a security bypass vulnerability that could be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary code in the context of any website. Tracked as CVE-2021-34506 (CVSS score: 5.4), the weakness stems from a universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) issue that's triggered when … [Read more...] about Microsoft Edge Bug Could’ve Let Hackers Steal Your Secrets for Any Site
US Charges 2 Chinese Hackers for Targeting COVID-19 Research and Trade Secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) yesterday revealed charges against two Chinese nationals for their alleged involvement in a decade-long hacking spree targeting dissidents, government agencies, and hundreds of organizations in as many as 11 countries.The 11-count indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday, alleges LI Xiaoyu (李啸宇) and DONG Jiazhi (董家志) stole terabytes of … [Read more...] about US Charges 2 Chinese Hackers for Targeting COVID-19 Research and Trade Secrets