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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 15:57:29 +0000

A roundup of security news from May 13–19, including ransomware attacks on the upswing, website hacking, pseudo-VPNs, bloatware, and more.

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Tags: Android bloatware breaches crysis ransomware DDos attack dharma hacking healthcare cybersecurity mds Meltdown microsoft ransomware server vulnerabilities Spectre typosquatting vpn vulnerabilities whatsapp

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April 18, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Medical Malware and Monitor Hacks

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:00:42 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how baby monitors may be susceptible to hacking. Also, learn about a medical flaw that enables hackers to hide malware. Read on: Is Your Baby Monitor…

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April 16, 2019 admin

Hackers snab emails and more in Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN compromise

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:30:20 +0000

Hackers made use of a compromised Microsoft support agent’s credentials to sneak a peek at its users’ Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook emails. How bad is it, and what has Microsoft done to correct it?

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Tags: email hotmail live microsoft ms msn Outlook

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April 1, 2019 admin

A week in security (March 25 – 31)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 08:24:19 +0000

A roundup of news stories from March 25 – 31, including phishing, hacking, Government studies, mobile dangers on official stores and more.

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Tags: adware hacking malware Mobile phishing roundup week in security

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March 21, 2019 admin

Are hackers gonna hack anymore? Not if we keep reusing passwords

Credit to Author: Kacy Zurkus| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

A look at the not-so-hacking hacker techniques attackers are using to compromise user accounts via weak passwords and gain access to enterprise networks.

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Tags: brute force credential stuffing enterprise enterprises hackers hacking password managers password spraying reusing passwords weak passwords

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March 1, 2019 admin

Spectre, Google, and the Universal Read Gadget

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:43:37 +0000

A recently released paper by Google has resurrected the spirit of Spectre, a seemingly never-ending threat to most makes of processor. We take a look at what this means, and what the Universal Read Gadget means for most technology users.

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Tags: CPU exploit Google Meltdown meltdown and spectre Spectre universal read gadget vulnerability

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February 14, 2019 admin

Hacker destroys VFEmail service, wipes backups

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:56:00 +0000

A hacker managed to compromise, and entirely destroy, a popular email service and all of its backups. What happened?

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 7, 2019 admin

Throwback Thursday: Pick a card, any card …

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800

This conglomerate is structured as several smaller companies, with a big central IT organization plus individual IT groups in some of the companies, reports an IT pilot fish there.

“An IT staffer from one of the companies loaded a password cracker and proceeded to crack the Windows NT servers,” fish says. “He sent out emails bragging about how insecure NT was and giving the NT team a hard time.”

Fish isn’t on the NT team, but he and his security co-workers decide to strike back on behalf of their colleagues — and they do it through the central IT audit group, to make sure it’s all above board.

First, they supply the audit people with a list of more than 100 Unix servers, and get them to pick a server at random. Amazingly, the audit group picks the only server on the list that belongs to the company where the NT attack originated.

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