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Cybersecurity Highlights

This section registers the most relevant incidents or public events related to the cybersecurity and information and communication technologies (ICT), in a way that a chronological history of them is available, together with their main links, references and information sources.
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68 million Dropbox accounts leaked

08/26/2016
Millions os Dropbox users have been forced to change their password this week. Dropbox has reset  the passwords of those users that had not changed it since 2012, after discovering a dump of...
References: 
vice.com
troyhunt.com
nakedsecurity.sophos.com
blogs.dropbox.com
incibe.es
blogs.dropbox.com
Tags: 
Encryption
Incident
Information leakage
Internet

Hacking group linked to NSA tools leaked online

08/15/2016
A group os hackers called ShadowBrokers have published through Github and Tumblr a bunch of tools and vulnerabilities belonging to Equation group, a cybersecurity group linked to NSA and that were...
References: 
thehackernews.com
theintercept.com
arstechnica.com/
muyseguridad.net
arstechnica.com
tools.cisco.com
blogs.cisco.com
threatpost.com
kb.juniper.net
forums.juniper.net
cisco.com
vice.com
nytimes.com
Tags: 
Cryptocurrency
Cyberespionage
Encryption
Information leakage
Tool
Incident
Internet
Malware

GoToMyPC reset all customers passwords

06/19/2016
GoToMyPC, a service that allows users to access their computers from anywhere, has suffered a security incident. This incident has been admited by Citrix, the owner of the service, in a statement....
References: 
status.gotomypc.com
www.grahamcluley.com
krebsonsecurity.com
Tags: 
Incident
Internet

Teen hacks US Intelligence director personal accounts

01/12/2016
A teenager hacker acceded personal mail accounts of Us Intelligence director and his wife, as well as his online profile in Verizon's web page. The alleged hacker is part of a group that atacked...
References: 
20minutos.es
theguardian.com
motherboard.vice.com
ibtimes.com
Tags: 
Cybercrime
Internet

Attack on Internet DNS root servers

12/04/2015
It has been published an attack to multiple DNS root servers on the Internet during two days and with a traffic volume of 5 million requests per second, 250 times higher than usual. The attack was...
References: 
http://root-servers.org/
http://arstechnica.com/
http://www.omicrono.com/
Tags: 
Botnet
Denial of service
Internet

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