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Fast Forward ADL: How to prevent ‘Zoombombing’
The Anti-Defamation League has released a list of tips to prevent “Zoombombing,” a tactic white supremacists and internet trolls are using to hack video conferences and project pornographic, racist and anti-Semitic imagery. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, people are relying more heavily on online video conferencing software like Zoom, which has created new opportunities for…
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Fast Forward Russian Hackers Hit Benny Gantz’s Cellphone In ‘Unprecedented Attack’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian hackers struck the cellphone of Benny Gantz, the chief rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what an Israeli intelligence firm called an “unprecedented attack.” CGI Group, which Gantz hired to investigate a series of leaks from the center-left Blue and White party, said no sensitive information was gleaned from the…
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Fast Forward Was Rabbi Shmuley Hacked By Qatar?
Celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach may have been hacked by agents of Qatar in response to his campaigning against the Gulf kingdom, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The possible hacking was uncovered after Republican Jewish megadonor Elliott Broidy sued Qatar and accused the country of hacking his email and disseminating embarrassing information to journalists as retaliation for Broidy’s…
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Fast Forward Israeli Hackers Offered Foreign Leaders’ Emails To Cambridge Analytica
Israeli hackers accessed the private email accounts of two heads of state and offered information to the data analytics team that worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Guardian reported Wednesday. The British data firm Cambridge Analytica, which has used information pulled from Facebook users to consult on political campaigns around the world, was working…
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Fast Forward Richard Blumenthal Attacks Uber For Hacking Breach And Cover-Up
Calling the move “inexplicable,” Connecticut Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal lashed out at ride sharing giant Uber’s decision to pay off hackers who breached its computer system. Uber revealed Wednesday that it payed two hackers $100,000 to cover up a massive computer breach in which they obtained personal information of 50 million riders and 7 million…
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Fast Forward Russian Firm Admits Using Stolen NSA Hacking Tool, Confirming Israeli Claim
(JTA) — The Russian company Kaspersky Lab confirmed that it had taken source code for a secret American hacking tool via its antivirus software. The company’s internal investigation came after Israeli intelligence discovered that Russian hackers were using the antivirus software to steal classified information from the United States. Kaspersky’s anti-virus program is used by 400 million…
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Fast Forward Israel Caught Russia Cyber-Snooping For U.S. Secrets
Israeli intelligence caught Russian spies attempting hack out classified American documents in computers across the globe, the New York Times reported. The Russians used a widely used antivirus program to effectively search millions of computers for documents from the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and other branches of government. The antivirus program is made by…
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