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U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get .Gov Domains

March 17, 2020 admin .gov, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, John Levine, Other, The Internet for Dummies, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, u.s. general services administration

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 15:01:21 +0000

The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting them. The additional measures come less than four months after KrebsOnSecurity published research suggesting it was relatively easy for just about anyone to get their very own .gov domain. In November’s piece It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name, an anonymous source detailed how he obtained one by impersonating an official at a small town in Rhode Island that didn’t already have its own .gov.

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Happy 10th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com

December 29, 2019 admin Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:49:22 +0000

Today marks the 10th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity.com! Over the past decade, the site has featured more than 1,800 stories focusing mainly on cybercrime, computer security and user privacy concerns. And what a decade it has been. Stories here have exposed countless scams, data breaches, cybercrooks and corporate stumbles. In the ten years since its inception, […]

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CISO MAG Honors KrebsOnSecurity

December 11, 2019 admin ciso mag, Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:46:05 +0000

CISO Magazine, a publication dedicated to covering issues near and dear to corporate chief information security officers everywhere, has graciously awarded this author the designation of “Cybersecurity Person of the Year” in its December 2019 issue.

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CISO Magazine Honors KrebsOnSecurity

December 10, 2019 admin ciso magazine, Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:46:05 +0000

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No Jail Time for “WannaCry Hero”

July 29, 2019 admin Judge Joseph Peter Stadtmueller, Kronos banking malware, Marcus Hutchins, Marcy Wheeler, Other, UPAS Kit

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:07:31 +0000

Marcus Hutchins, the “accidental hero” who helped arrest the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, will receive no jail time for his admitted role in authoring and selling malware that helped cyberthieves steal online bank account credentials from victims, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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What’s Behind the Wolters Kluwer Tax Outage?

May 7, 2019 admin Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 19:56:44 +0000

Early in the afternoon on Friday, May, 3, I asked a friend to relay a message to his security contact at CCH, the cloud-based tax division of the global information services firm Wolters Kluwer in the Netherlands. The message was that the same file directories containing new versions of CCH’s software were open and writable by any anonymous user, and that there were suspicious files in those directories indicating some user(s) abused that access. Shortly after that report, the CCH file directory for tax software downloads was taken offline. As of this publication, several readers have reported outages affecting multiple CCH Web sites. These same readers reported being unable to access their clients’ tax data in CCH’s cloud because of the ongoing outages.

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Happy 9th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

December 29, 2018 admin Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:51:25 +0000

Hard to believe we’ve gone another revolution around the Sun: Today marks the 9th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity.com! This past year featured some 150 blog posts, but as usual the biggest contribution to this site came from the amazing community of readers here who have generously contributed their knowledge, wit and wisdom in more than 10,000 […]