Security: NSA Leaks, Linux 'Distro' Accidentally Uploaded, and Magento Patches
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Researcher discovers classified Army intel app, data on open public AWS bucket
After uncovering a massive trove of social media-based intelligence left on multiple Amazon Web Services S3 storage buckets by a Defense Department contractor, the cloud security firm UpGuard has disclosed yet another major cloud storage breach of sensitive intelligence information. This time, the data exposed includes highly classified data and software associated with the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), an intelligence distribution platform that DOD has spent billions to develop. Specifically, the breach involves software for a cloud-based component of DCGS-A called "Red Disk."
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Latest NSA Leak Reveals Secret Army Intelligence Project
The program, led by U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, a division of the National Security Agency, was supposed to help the Pentagon get real-time information about what was happening on the ground in Afghanistan in 2013 by collecting data from U.S. computer systems on the ground, according to tech news site ZDNet. But the agency killed the initiative in 2014 because of technical problems that it described in the leaked documents as “a major hindrance to operations.”
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Top secret Army, NSA data found on public internet due to misconfigured AWS server
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New details of NSA's Ragtime program appear in leaked files
A leaked document shines new light on a surveillance program developed by the National Security Agency.
The program, known as Ragtime, collects the contents of communications, such as emails and text messages, of foreign nationals under the authority of several US surveillance laws.
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Magento Releases Security Updates for Commerce and Open Source 1.x
Magento Released two updates today to address some security concerns with Magento 1.x installations. While 2.x received some recent security updates, this is the first 1.x in some time.
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