Month: October 2018
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Researchers Call for a Shared Dark Web Taxonomy
A dark web intelligence company has called for an industry-wide, standardized framework for evaluating and describing goods and services …
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Wish Companies Would Stop Downplaying Security Breaches? This Dating Website Made One Up
Companies with great troves of customer data are always doing their upmost to play down a security breach. Facebook for example, last week …
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Sendgrid blurts out OWN customers’ email addresses with no help from hackers
Cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid has copped to blabbing customer email addresses, chalking it up to some overenthusiastic …
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Virus Bulletin 2018: Attack velocity ramps up
With the proliferation of more advanced and freely available toolsets, commoditization of attack launch platforms, and availability of …
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Setting up a Mac for young children
Over the summer I decided to give my kids an old Apple laptop to share. We use laptops for school homework from time to time but my kids …
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Introducing APT38: North Korea’s Cyber Heist Outfit
Some financially motivated cyber-attacks previously attributed to the infamous Lazarus Group are actually the work of another North Korean …
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Cop charged with selling phone tracking service on dark web
A French police officer has been charged with using police intelligence data to power a mobile phone tracking service sold via the dark …
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Phantom Secure CEO pleads guilty to providing drug cartels with encrypted phones
The chief executive of Phantom Secure, a phone service designed to keep criminal activity away from the eyes of law enforcement, has pled …
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Cisco plugs critical flaws in DNA Center and Prime Infrastructure
CVE-2018-15386 is due to an insecure default configuration of the affected system. Unauthenticated, remote attackers could exploit it by …
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UK says Russia’s GRU was behind a spate of chaotic cyber attacks between 2015 and 2017
The UK has directly accused Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, of being behind a number of cyber attacks that took place …
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