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Zetter: Hackers behind 2014 Sony breach never mentioned 'The Interview'
“But it was only after media reports started surfacing, quoting anonymous government officials about the Sony movie, that everyone then jumped on this bandwagon and said this was about the movie. But the hackers themselves never mentioned the movie.”
Verizon Report: Phishing Emails Are Opened Within 90 Seconds On Average
“A report came out this week from, ah, Verizon, ah, examining how long it takes, ah, someone to open a phishing email after it's landed in a company's network, and it takes on average about a minute and a half because someone in that company is going to open th…”
RSA was breached after an employee opened an email in spam
“This was a security company, one of the top security companies, RSA, that's having its conference next week. They got hit in a phishing attack in, ah, Around the same time that Google got hit. And in that case, they sent only a handful of emails to some specif…”
Zetter: US Authorities Must Wait for Russian Hackers to Travel Abroad
“It's hard to go after Russians. Little cooperation with the government, and so U.S. Authorities have to wait for someone to leave Russia and go, you know, on vacation to Thailand or someplace, and not been there.”
Zetter: Microsoft uses civil lawsuits to dismantle botnets and malicious IP infrastructure
“We've seen this a couple of times with Microsoft, where they've gone to, ah, they filed a civil action court in order to get certain IP addresses or hosting companies taken down in order to control botnets and other malicious activities that's sort of, ah, con…”