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Cybersecurity

The Yahoo hackers weren’t state-sponsored, a security firm says

September 29, 2016

Via: CIO

Common criminals, not state-sponsored hackers, carried out the massive 2014 data breach that exposed information about millions of Yahoo user accounts, a security firm said Wednesday. Yahoo has blamed state actors for the attack, but it was actually elite hackers-for-hire […]


Cybersecurity

Yahoo’s claim of ‘state-sponsored’ hackers meets with skepticism

September 27, 2016

Via: CIO

Yahoo has blamed its massive data breach on a “state-sponsored actor.” But the company isn’t saying why it arrived at that conclusion. Nor has it provided any evidence. The lingering questions are causing some security experts to wonder why Yahoo […]