Twitter Starts Warning Users of State-Sponsored Cyber-Attacks

Minimalist · Dec 13, 2015

Yesterday, a few Twitter users tweeted out an email they got from the social network's security staff, in which they were warned of cyber-attacks on their account from what the team suspected to be a state-sponsored group.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/twit...of-state-sponsored-cyber-attacks-497539.shtml

Minimalist · Dec 23, 2015

Yahoo Joins Google, Facebook, Twitter in Warning Users of State-Sponsored Attacks

Yahoo! is the latest Silicon Valley giant to add support for an alerts system that sends out notifications to users when the company suspects a state-sponsored attack on their account.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/yaho...users-of-state-sponsored-attacks-497999.shtml

Minimalist · Dec 31, 2015

Microsoft to Warn Users of State-Sponsored Attacks

Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, explains in ablog post that the tech giant is already working on identifying and preventing unauthorized access to Microsoft accounts, including Outlook.com and OneDrive. The company is already notifying users when it believes their accounts might have been compromised by a third party, while also guiding them on how to keep their accounts secure.

The new measure, however, is meant specifically for those situations when the company has evidence that the attacker might be state-sponsored. According to Charney, such attacks are usually more sophisticated or more sustained when compared to attacks performed by cybercriminals and other parties.
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http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-warn-users-state-sponsored-attacks

Minimalist · Jan 6, 2016

Microsoft refutes reports it didn't alert victims of Chinese state Hotmail hacking

But it did not alert the affected users to the intrusions and the scope of the snooping, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former Microsoft employees. In its statement, Microsoft said neither it nor the US government could identify the sources of the hacking attacks and that they didn't come from a single country. Microsoft said it will now change its policy.
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http://utcecho.com/2016/01/06/microsoft-refutes-reports-it-didnt-alert-victims-of-chinese.html

Minimalist · Jan 20, 2016

Twitter’s silence deafening on state-sponsored attacks

Twitter’s decision to notify users when their accounts are targeted in state-sponsored attacks earned its share of praise. But Twitter’s silence in terms of specifics about the attacks—whether by choice or gagged by a National Security Letter—has foisted some anxiety upon those who were notified. A few of the estimated 50 recipients happened to be at the recent Chaos Communication Congress hacker conference (32C3) in Hamburg, Germany, and they commiserated not only over their mutual notifications, but also over a host of unanswered questions, foremost why were they targeted and by whom?
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https://threatpost.com/twitters-silence-deafening-on-state-sponsored-attacks

Minimalist · Mar 26, 2016

Google will make it clearer if you're being attacked by a state-sponsored hacker

But today Google is changing the way it notifies users, transforming the older banner into a new, bigger and much clearer message. The company says that this change is important because the new warning also gives users ways to protect themselves, such as setting up two-factor authentication.
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http://www.neowin.net/news/google-w...re-being-attacked-by-a-state-sponsored-hacker

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