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Yahoo on Tuesday released an update to its 2013 breach, notifying users that all 3 billion accounts in existence at the time were compromised.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Pwn2Own 2017, Microsoft’s silence around February’s Patch Tuesday, and a nasty SAP bug.
The Department of Justice indicted four individuals, including two Russian FSB officers, for their roles in the Yahoo breach.
Yahoo said in its latest SEC filing that executives and legal reps failed to act sufficiently on the information they had about breaches that exposed more than 1 billion account records.
Experts at InfoArmor said the stolen database of 1 billion Yahoo accounts has been sold multiple times for at least $300,000 each time.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches.
Yahoo disclosed today that attackers in 2013 stole data associated with more than 1 billion accounts. CISO Bob Lord said this incident is “distinct” from a 2014 attack in which 500 million accounts were breached.
U.S. representatives are asking Yahoo for clarity around a surveillance program mentioned in reports earlier this month.
The latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook’s osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty are all discussed.
A number of Democratic Congressional leaders wrote Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer a letter seeking answers about the breach of 500 million customer records.