EPISODE · Sep 26, 2017 · 6 MIN
Security News This Week: Hackers Broke Into the SEC... A Year Ago
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
The week kicked off with news that CCleaner, a popular security software tool, had itself been compromised, distributing a backdoor to hundreds of thousands of users and highlighting software's serious supply-chain security issue. Just a few days later, it turned out that the CCleaner was designed instead to target nearly two dozen specific tech firms. That's... not good. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The week kicked off with news that CCleaner, a popular security software tool, had itself been compromised, distributing a backdoor to hundreds of thousands of users and highlighting software's serious supply-chain security issue. Just a few days later, it turned out that the CCleaner was designed instead to target nearly two dozen specific tech firms. That's... not good.
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Security News This Week: Hackers Broke Into the SEC... A Year Ago
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