Hacked, attacked, and sued.

The Internet Archive gets breached and DDoSed. Dutch police arrest the alleged proprietors of an illicit online market. Fidelity Investments confirms a data breach. Marriott settles for $52 million over a multi-year data breach. Critical updates from Mozilla, FortiNet, Palo Alto Networks, VMWare, and Apple. Mongolian Skimmer targets Magento installations. On our Industry Voices segment, we speak with Ben April, Chief Technology Officer at Maltego Technologies GMBH, about "Overcoming information overload: Challenges in social media investigations." Bankruptcy pulls back the curtain on a data brokerage firm. 

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CyberWire Guest

On our Industry Voices segment, we speak with Ben April, Chief Technology Officer at Maltego Technologies GMBH, about "Overcoming information overload: Challenges in social media investigations." 

Selected Reading

Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users (WIRED)

Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'largest dark web market' 

Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers (TechCrunch)

Marriott Agrees $52m Settlement for Massive Data Breach (Infosecurity Magazine)

Mozilla releases patches for actively exploited Firefox bug (The Register)

CISA says critical Fortinet RCE flaw now exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)

Palo Alto Warns of Critical Flaw That Let Attackers Takeover Firewalls (Cyber Security News)

VMware NSX Vulnerabilities Allow Hackers To Execute Arbitrary Commands (Cyber Security News)

iTunes Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-44193) Vulnerability Analysis and Exploitation (CYFIRMA) 

The Mongolian Skimmer (Jscrambler)

National Public Data files for bankruptcy after info leak (The Register)

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