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Librarian Sues Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach, Wins $600

June 13, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, ACLU, data breaches, Equifax breach, Inc.com, Jessamyn West, Legalist.com, Security Tools, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:14:40 +0000

In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people, many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. But not Jessamyn West. The 49-year-old librarian from a tiny town in Vermont took Equifax to court. And now she’s celebrating a small but symbolic victory after a small claims court awarded her $600 in damages stemming from the 2017 breach.

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FBI: Kindly Reboot Your Router Now, Please

May 28, 2018 admin Cisco, FBI, Latest Warnings, Linksys, Linksys E1200, Linksys E2500, MikroTik, Mikrotik 1016, Mikrotik 1036, Mikrotik 1072, Netgear, Netgear DGN2200, Netgear R6400, Netgear R7000, Netgear R8000, Netgear WNR1000, Netgear WNR2000, QNAP, QNAP TS251, QNAP TS439 Pro, R600VPN, Security Tools, Talos Intelligence, The Coming Storm, TP-Link, UPnP, VPNFilter, WRVS4400N

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:54:22 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that a new malware threat has rapidly infected more than a half-million consumer devices. To help arrest the spread of the malware, the FBI and security firms are urging home Internet users to reboot routers and network-attached storage devices made by a range of technology manufacturers.

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Detecting Cloned Cards at the ATM, Register

May 14, 2018 admin All About Skimmers, Associated Press, EMV, FBI, gift card fraud, NYPD, Patrick Traynor, Security Tools, University of Florida, Walmart

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:24:38 +0000

Much of the fraud involving counterfeit credit, ATM debit and retail gift cards relies on the ability of thieves to use cheap, widely available hardware to encode stolen data onto any card’s magnetic stripe. But new research suggests retailers and ATM operators could reliably detect counterfeit cards using a simple technology that flags cards which appear to have been altered by such tools.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2018 Edition

May 8, 2018 admin adobe, chrome, CVE-2018-8174, Flash Player 29.0.0.171, Latest Warnings, mozilla firefox, Patch Tuesday May 2018, Qualys, Security Tools, Time to Patch, windows

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 20:38:16 +0000

Microsoft today released a bundle of security updates to fix at least 67 holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software, including one dangerous flaw that Microsoft warns is actively being exploited. Meanwhile, as it usually does on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday — the second Tuesday of each month — Adobe has a new Flash Player update that addresses a single but critical security weakness. First, the Flash Tuesday update, which brings Flash Player to v. 29.0.0.171. Some (present company included) would argue that Flash Player is in itself “a single but critical security weakness.” Nevertheless, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer/Edge ship with their own versions of Flash, which get updated automatically when new versions of these browsers are made available.

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Checked Your Credit Since the Equifax Hack?

March 11, 2018 admin annualcreditreport.com, credit freeze, credit monitoring services, Equifax breach, Experian, Latest Warnings, security freeze, Security Tools, TransUnion

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 18:51:08 +0000

A recent consumer survey suggests that half of all Americans still haven’t checked their credit report since the Equifax breach last year exposed the Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other personal information on nearly 150 million people. If you’re in that fifty percent, please make an effort to remedy that soon. Credit reports from the three major bureaus — Equifax, Experian and Trans Union — can be obtained online for free at annualcreditreport.com — the only Web site mandated by Congress to serve each American a free credit report every year.

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USPS Finally Starts Notifying You by Mail If Someone is Scanning Your Snail Mail Online

February 26, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Equifax. Spokeo, Informed Delivery, KBA, knowledge-based authentication, LexisNexis, Security Tools, USPS, Zillow

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:28:41 +0000

In October 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that ne’er-do-wells could take advantage of a relatively new service offered by the U.S. Postal Service that provides scanned images of all incoming mail before it is slated to arrive at its destination address. We advised that stalkers or scammers could abuse this service by signing up as anyone in the household, because the USPS wasn’t at that point set up to use its own unique communication system — the U.S. mail — to alert residents when someone had signed up to receive these scanned images. The USPS recently told this publication that beginning Feb. 16 it started alerting all households by mail whenever anyone signs up to receive these scanned notifications of mail delivered to that address. The notification program, dubbed “Informed Delivery,” includes a scan of the front and back of each envelope or package destined for a specific address.

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Chronicle: A Meteor Aimed At Planet Threat Intel?

January 24, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Alphabet, Astro Teller, Chronicle, google, Google X, no-distribute scanner, Security Tools, Stephen Gillett, virustotal

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:56:52 +0000

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said today it is in the process of rolling out a new service designed to help companies more quickly make sense of and act on the mountains of threat data produced each day by cybersecurity tools. Countless organizations rely on a hodgepodge of security software, hardware and services to find and detect cybersecurity intrusions before an incursion by malicious software or hackers has the chance to metastasize into a full-blown data breach.

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Some Basic Rules for Securing Your IoT Stuff

January 17, 2018 admin Censys.io, Glasswire, Internet of Things, Iot Security rules, Mirai, Security Tools, Shields Up, Steve Gibson, The Coming Storm, U.S. Justice Department, universal plug and play, UPnP

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:36:24 +0000

Most readers here have likely heard or read various prognostications about the impending doom from the proliferation of poorly-secured “Internet of Things” or IoT devices. Loosely defined as any gadget or gizmo that connects to the Internet but which most consumers probably wouldn’t begin to know how to secure, IoT encompasses everything from security cameras, routers and digital video recorders to printers, wearable devices and “smart” lightbulbs. Throughout 2016 and 2017, attacks from massive botnets made up entirely of hacked IoT devices had many experts warning of a dire outlook for Internet security. But the future of IoT doesn’t have to be so bleak. Here’s a primer on minimizing the chances that your IoT things become a security liability for you or for the Internet at large.