Cybersecurity
Hack Global, Buy Local: The Inefficiencies of the Zero-Day Exploit Market
Max Smeets Mon, Jun 6, 2022, 10:43 AM
Why the market for zero-day exploits is less efficient and more local than you might think.
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Federal Law Enforcement
No Server Left Behind: The Justice Department’s Novel Law Enforcement Operation to Protect Victims
Alex Iftimie Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 4:07 PM
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that it undertook a law enforcement operation to remove malware from hundreds of victim systems in the United States. What’s the significance of the move?
Cybersecurity and Deterrence
The Microsoft Exchange Hack and the Great Email Robbery
Nicholas Weaver Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 4:17 PM
The world is probably days away from a mass-exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers—a hack that could have a far greater impact than the SolarWinds breach.
Cyber & Technology
The End of the NIT
Nicholas Weaver Mon, Dec 5, 2016, 2:30 PM
Lawfare readers by now should be very familiar with the concept of the FBI's Network Investigatory Technique or NIT, a small piece of malicious code that exploits the target’s computer to generate a message which deanonymizes the target. So far we've seen exploitive NITs used by the FBI two major child pornography cases: Freedom Hosting and PlayPen.