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Estonia sues Gemalto for 152M euros over flaws in citizen ID cards issued by the company

Security Affairs

.” In November 2017, Estonia announced that it would suspend security digital certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards that are using the buggy chips to mitigate the risk of identity theft. Estonia replaced Gemalto and its predecessor for the supply of ID cards since 2002, with the company Idemia.

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Spotlight Podcast: At 15 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Grows with Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

β€œIn 2002 I had a phone, but I had a separate piece of plastic and metal that was a camera and another piece of plastic and metal that had my music on it.” These days, cyber security is personal, Grant said: from corporate losses and fines to personal identity theft.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2000 β€” Mafiaboy β€” 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison. Most users are unaffected.