Tag: Cybersecurity
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Operation Trojan Shield: The FBI’s Legal Tightrope in Privacy Invasion
Operation Trojan Shield – a name that has now become synonymous with the largest global sting operation in history. Orchestrated by the FBI in collaboration with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and other international law enforcement agencies, this operation unfolded as a masterstroke of deceit and surveillance. On its surface, Trojan Shield is hailed as…
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The Case Against ‘Responsible Disclosure’
The debate over vulnerability disclosure is as significant as it is contentious. ‘Responsible disclosure’, a term coined by software vendors many decades ago, advocates that security researchers privately report vulnerabilities to the affected vendor, allowing the company time to fix the issue before making it public. On the surface this approach seems reasonable – it…
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Analyzing the CrowdStrike Outage: What Went Wrong, Why It Happened, and What We Can Learn
The recent CrowdStrike outage has sent shockwaves through the global IT landscape, leading many to consider it one of the biggest failures in tech history. Affecting over 8 million machines globally, including critical systems in airports, hospitals, banks, the sheer scale and impact of this outage is staggering. But what really happened? Who’s to blame?…