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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. 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) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at [email protected] to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. The internet archive gets breached and d'Ost.
0:17.0	Dutch police arrest the alleged proprietors of an illicit online market.
0:24.2	Pedality Investments confirms a data breach.
0:27.0	Marriott settles for $52 million over a multi-year data breach.
0:32.0	Critical updates from Mozilla, Fordonet, Palo Alto networks,
0:35.3	VMware, and Apple. Mongolian Skimmer targets magenta installations. On our
0:41.0	industry voices segment we speak with Ben April chief technology officer at
0:45.1	Maltigo Technologies about overcoming information overload challenges in
0:50.5	social media investigations.
0:53.0	And bankruptcy pulls back the curtain on a data brokerage firm. It's Thursday, October 10th, 2024. I'm Dave Bittner, and this is your cyberwire Intel briefing. Thanks for joining us here today. In a rather chaotic turn of events the Internet Archive confirmed a
1:36.4	major data breach on Wednesday hours after a suspicious JavaScript pop-up claimed the same.
1:44.2	Security researcher Troy Hunt, who runs Have I Been Poned, verified that the breach exposed
1:49.8	31 million email addresses, user namesames, and becript password hashes, dating back to September.
1:57.5	The breach comes on top of a wave of distributed denial of service attacks that have intermittently taken the site offline.
2:05.4	Despite multiple requests, the Internet Archive remained silent until founder Brewster Cayley
2:11.7	acknowledged the breach and D-D-D-D-D-D-S
2:14.0	on X Twitter stating they had disabled the compromised JavaScript library
2:19.5	and were upgrading security.
2:22.0	Troy Hunt, who received the stolen data on September 30th and warned the archive on October 6th, was sympathetic,
2:29.4	given the archive's current predicament.
2:31.8	The organization is not only battling ongoing cyber attacks but also facing
2:36.3	multiple legal challenges including a looming 621 million dollar copyright lawsuit.
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