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1. Ex-NSA man may face Democrat ire over investigating Hunter Biden emails: (Open Sauce); Former NSA hacker Jake Williams could find himself the target of Democrat ire after he took on a paid job to determine the veracity of emails found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of US ...; Created on 31 March 2022
2. Okta knew about breach in January, kept mum until Lapsus$ post: (Open Sauce); ... Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) March 23, 2022 Duo's co-founder and chief technology officer Jon Oberheide said in a tweet: "Based on past experience, I'd suggest taking Okta's public assurances on this incident ...; Created on 24 March 2022
3. Kaspersky denies rumours of source code leak: (Security); ... — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) March 11, 2022 "It really is impossible to say. And, of course, in addition to the cyber-crime operations and hacktivist collectives and IT Army, the intelligence services ...; Created on 11 March 2022
4. World's biggest hotel booking site breached by US intelligence in 2016: repor: (Security); ... to US, must be "legitimate target," victims not notified. https://t.co/IF48GitrfT — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) November 11, 2021 Former NSA hacker Jake Williams contrasted the breach with that at ...; Created on 12 November 2021
5. Windows ransomware gang moves earnings, others slam US after REvil takedown: (Security); ... now. https://t.co/sO4XZWAXUB — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) October 22, 2021 It questioned the US move to attack servers in other countries, and also referred to America's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, ...; Created on 23 October 2021
6. Sec firm defends release of Exchange flaw details without telling Microsoft: (Security); ... PR SNAFUs and this is sadly no exception. https://t.co/FVc3rilsIW — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) September 23, 2021 On Wednesday, Guardicore released details of a flaw in an implementation of the ...; Created on 24 September 2021
7. Three Americans fined for providing hacking services to UAE Govt: (Security); ... pic.twitter.com/I0A2CIsfjL — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) September 14, 2021 “This agreement is the first-of-its-kind resolution of an investigation into two distinct types of criminal activity: providing ...; Created on 15 September 2021
8. CIA-backed firm claims DarkSide ransomware site has shut down: (Security); ... Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) May 14, 2021 “A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, namely: Blog. Payment server. CDN servers,” Smilyanets said in a tweet attributed ...; Created on 15 May 2021
9. Plenty of mirth as Recorded Future, NYT and ex-NSA man have a punt each way: (Open Sauce); ... network management software known as Orion. The headline on the Recorded Future study. On that occasion, the newspaper's scribes faced the wrath of ex-NSA hacker Jake Williams who came straight to ...; Created on 02 March 2021
10. Microsoft chief's claims on cloud security result in sharp rejoinde: (Security); ... cloud than in on-premises servers, have met a tough response from former NSA hacker Jake Williams, who characterised them as having caused more harm to security than the SolarWinds attackers did in the ...; Created on 01 March 2021
11. What role did Microsoft play in the SolarWinds supply chain attack?: (Security); ... things super efficient. https://t.co/uZIFGIvfq3 — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) February 15, 2021 A day later, a small Israeli firm, Cycode, poked a big hole in Microsoft's argument, pointing out that ...; Created on 16 February 2021
12. Breached water plant ran Windows 7, used single password for TeamViewer: (Security); ... here. 2/ pic.twitter.com/alfGC3gcCx — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) February 9, 2021 The Massachusetts advisory said the attackers had accessed the plant twice, about five hours apart and were able ...; Created on 12 February 2021
13. Ex-NSA man Aitel launches fresh attack on NYT reporter's cyber security boo: (Security); ... result in a more informed audience." Asked to explain the difference between an exploit and an implant, former NSA hacker Jake Williams told iTWire: "An exploit compromises software to get you on the ...; Created on 10 February 2021
14. Attacker changes chemical strength in Florida water treatment plant: (Security); ... comment, Jake Williams, a former NSA hacker with the agency's now-disbanded elite Tailored Access Operations Unit, told iTWire: "This event should serve as a wake-up call to organisations to inventory and ...; Created on 09 February 2021
15. Ex-NSA man Aitel again clashes with NYT over cyber attack article: (Security); ... he worked as a computer scientist with the NSA. Asked for his impressions of the article, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said he had nothing to add to what he had already tweeted; his earlier tweets ...; Created on 07 February 2021
16. Alleged SolarWinds attackers offer stolen Microsoft, Cisco source code for sale: (Security); ... to hit both private and public entities, by corrupting the Orion network management software, a product of SolarWinds. Former NSA hacker Jake Williams initially said the whole thing appeared to be a ...; Created on 13 January 2021
17. Mimecast certificate used for Microsoft 365 connection compromised: (Security); ... than 36,000 customers. Former NSA elite hacker Jake Williams said it was not possible to speculate on the impact until he knew what the certificate was provisioned for. "Not sure what the impact is ...; Created on 13 January 2021
18. Security at SolarWinds likely to come up later on: ex-NSA hacker: (Security); ... attacks being launched using the company's supply chain as a vector, a senior infosec practitioner says. Jake Williams, a former NSA hacker and member of the agency's now disbanded Tailored Access Operations ...; Created on 22 December 2020
19. Ex-NSA hacker slams SolarWinds over wording of SEC breach filing: (Security); Former NSA hacker Jake Williams has criticised the SEC filing made by security firm SolarWinds following the disclosure that the company's Orion network management software had been compromised and used ...; Created on 15 December 2020
20. Attackers hit US Treasury through Microsoft Office 365; SolarWinds opens door to others: (Security); ... led it to SolarWinds. They then passed the SW IOCs on to feds, who found them. Next week is going to be busy... 2/2 — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) December 13, 2020 Some commenters on Twitter attempted ...; Created on 14 December 2020
21. FireEye break-in: Mandia has forgotten that charity begins at home: (Open Sauce); ... hackers Jake Williams, and that great practitioner of spin, Dave Aitel, who is "impressed" by FireEye's reaction to the heist. Newman hasn't put a single hard question to Mandia or his minions – but if she ...; Created on 10 December 2020
22. New Microsoft chip will come with added costs, says ex-NSA hacker: (Security); ... result in added costs. Jake Williams, a former member of the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations Unit, told iTWire in response to queries that the chip was unlikely to provide any protection against ...; Created on 23 November 2020
23. US charges six Russians with being behind numerous computer intrusions: (Security); ... take on the charges, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said: "I think the timing of the announcement is interesting. I don't believe for a minute that it's any coincidence that we're seeing a tough-on-Russia ...; Created on 20 October 2020
24. Ransomware attack on Philadelphia firm hits COVID clinical trials: (Security); ... in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, India and Japan. Contacted for comment, former elite NSA hacker Jake Williams told iTWire: "The only thing that jumps out at me (there's not much meat in the story) ...; Created on 05 October 2020
25. Microsoft 365 services fall in a heap, company says fix is in place: (Security); ... user may experience access problems for Microsoft 365 services." Contacted for comment, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said: "It's a good day to plan for how centralising things like Azure Active Director ...; Created on 29 September 2020
26. US govt agencies given deadline to patch Windows Zerologon bug: (Security); ... successful compromise; and the continued presence of the vulnerability more than 30 days since the update was released. Contacted for comment, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said: "There's no question ...; Created on 22 September 2020
27. New York Times says Krebs wrongly implicated Briton in Twitter hack: (Security); ... people when there did not appear to be any reason to do so, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said: "It's one thing to send information to law enforcement. It's another entirely to dox them based on circumstantial ...; Created on 18 July 2020
28. Failed network configuration changes by T-Mobile caused outage: Cloudflare chief: (Security); ... that has been 2020." Former NSA hacker Jake Williams told iTWire that it was just T-Mobile and then Down Detector showing false positives "because people were talking about the T-Mobile outage on other ...; Created on 17 June 2020
29. Black Hat organisers reach settlement over controversial RSA encryption talk: (Security); ... to one prominent security researcher, former NSA hacker Jake Williams, throwing down the gauntlet to Crown Sterling. "I'll publicly shave my head, glue pubes to my bald scalp, and give a recorded talk ...; Created on 23 April 2020
30. Google staffers in spat over revelation of Zoom zero-days: (Security); ... his take, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said he had no issue with Wardle exposing details of the vulnerabilities publicly before contacting Zoom. "The vulns Wardle disclosed piggyback [and are] only ...; Created on 02 April 2020
31. Microsoft warns of Windows zero-day being exploited: (Security); ... former NSA hacker Jake Williams told iTWire: "Microsoft moved font processing out of kernel mode in after the RTM version of Windows 10. But prior to that, fonts were processed entirely in the kernel (which ...; Created on 24 March 2020
32. US calls for backdoors in apps that use encryption: (Security); ... encryption backdoors, it's your DUTY to ask whether we're okay with every country on the planet accessing the backdoors too. This is Pandora's Box. It was never meant to be opened. 2/2 — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) ...; Created on 24 July 2019
33. Black Hat pulls keynote speaker due to stance on women's issue: (Security); ... year! https://t.co/HcdikP5K6l — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) June 14, 2019 "We misjudged the separation of technology and politics. We will continue to focus on technology and research, however we ...; Created on 17 June 2019
34. Immunity's Aitel accused of conflict of interest by security exper: (Security); ... them (shown below) without any attribution. @taviso pic.twitter.com/S0SmJjkEpO — Nicole Perlroth (@nicoleperlroth) May 29, 2019 These were quotes from ex-NSA hacker Jake Williams, a frequent commentator ...; Created on 31 May 2019
35. Infosec pros defend NSA against NYT claims on EternalBlue: (Security); ... this work." Contacted for comment, former NSA hacker Jake Williams, a well-known commentator in these columns, said he was of the opinion that both the NSA and the victims shared the blame. "On a more ...; Created on 28 May 2019
36. Bloomberg roasted for terming WhatsApp end-to-end encryption 'a gimmick: (Security); ... Bloomberg article show Bloomberg is largely pointless https://t.co/vXsv5tOGwT — Costin Raiu (@craiu) May 14, 2019 His arguments were panned widely. Former NSA hacker Jake Williams told iTWire: ...; Created on 15 May 2019
37. Ex-NSA hackers come out firing after NYT criticises agency: (Open Sauce); ... wish us harm. Those arguments miss this. 1/9https://t.co/rzyP35QMWF — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) May 7, 2019 "They say never to pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, but this article ...; Created on 13 May 2019
38. Ex-NSA man slams Israel for strike on alleged Hamas cyber attackers: (Security); ... condemned by the international community else it risks becoming a new norm of warfare. Former NSA hacker Jake Williams was referring to the attack that Israel carried out on Sunday on a building it ...; Created on 07 May 2019
39. Vodafone slams Bloomberg over Huawei 'backdoor' claim: (Government Tech Policy); ... and fixed at the time by Huawei." Asked for his take on the Bloomberg story, former NSA hacker Jake Williams said practically every manufacturer had placed engineering access features in their products ...; Created on 01 May 2019
40. Infosec researchers slam ex-WaPO man Krebs over doxxing: (Security); ... call my employer @RenditionSec and complain if you think the video I participated in outing bad practices by Spamhaus was wrong. — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) April 25, 2019 Among those who criticised ...; Created on 30 April 2019
41. Former NSA contractor gets nine years for data theft: (Security); ... and looking for precisely this sort of activity. 8/9 — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) March 28, 2019 The former contractor is accused of taking more than 50 terabytes of data home and keeping it on ...; Created on 29 March 2019
42. Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text: (Security); ... UI is complex and depends on a large number of user interactions/relationships (e.g. Facebook). 2/2 — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) March 21, 2019 "This caught our attention because our login systems ...; Created on 22 March 2019
43. Citrix says internal network breached, business docs stolen: (Security); ... hacker Jake Williams told iTWire that one of the biggest takeaways from the Citrix statement was that it did not appear that the company had access logging on its file servers, given that it was unable ...; Created on 09 March 2019
44. As with Kaspersky Lab, Huawei case will end in a loss: (Open Sauce); ... only go one way. Then why would Huawei sue? Former NSA hacker Jake Williams had this to say: "If I were Huawei I'd be suing too. While I doubt it will be successful, it is likely to force the government ...; Created on 08 March 2019
45. Parliament attackers appear to have used Web shells: (Security); ... shell, according to former NSA hacker Jake Williams, who worked with the agency's elite Tailored Access Operations group (which was disbanded in 2016 and absorbed into the agency’s new Directorate of Operations). ...; Created on 19 February 2019
46. After indictments, ex-spies fear visits to China-friendly nations: (Government Tech Policy); ... hacker has warned. Jake Williams, who worked for the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations Unit, told iTWire soon after the indictments of two Chinese men for allegedly hacking into US companies last ...; Created on 15 January 2019
47. Kaspersky-NSA yarn aims to reinforce Russian link to Shadow Brokers: (Security); ... Jake Williams. The tweets provided details about his involvement in a number of hacks during his days as a member of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit (which was disbanded in 2016 and absorbed ...; Created on 14 January 2019
48. Bloomberg says big US telco hit by hardware tampering: (Security); ... is network monitoring, which you should be doing anyway. — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) October 9, 2018 According to Tuesday's story, the tampering was done on an Ethernet connector, which it said ...; Created on 10 October 2018
49. Google+ social network shut down after data leak exposed: (Security); ... quiet about the leak which occurred between 2015 and March 2018 when it was found and fixed. "Cover up as a service" https://t.co/8Aiyntmq2G — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) October 8, 2018 Google ...; Created on 09 October 2018
50. Ex-NSA hacker gets 5½ years for taking exploits home: (Security); ... (or should have). He deserves to lose his retirement and maybe a short sentence. Not this. 10/10 — Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) September 25, 2018 The NSA exploits are claimed to have leaked to the ...; Created on 26 September 2018

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