Security Leftovers
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Russian-Canadian National Charged Over Involvement in LockBit Ransomware Attacks [Ed: Way to shift the blame away from Microsoft]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced charges against a dual Russian and Canadian national for his alleged participation in LockBit ransomware attacks across the world.
The 33-year-old Ontario resident, Mikhail Vasiliev, has been taken into custody and is awaiting extradition to the U.S., where is likely to be sentenced for a maximum of five years in prison.
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Multiple High-Severity Flaw Affect Widely Used OpenLiteSpeed Web Server Software
Multiple high-severity flaws have been uncovered in the open source OpenLiteSpeed Web Server as well as its enterprise variant that could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution.
"By chaining and exploiting the vulnerabilities, adversaries could compromise the web server and gain fully privileged remote code execution," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a Thursday report.
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NSA Over-surveillance
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans.
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NSA Watchdog Concluded One Analyst’s Surveillance Project Went Too Far
Newly unearthed inspector general’s report is coda to Snowden-era controversy over NSA surveillance methods.