Month: January 2020
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Border Patrol Detains Iranian-Born American Soldier at the Border, Seizes His Phone
Earlier this month Customs and Border Protection seized the iPhone of an active duty American soldier as they were transferring through a …
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Remember those infosec fellas who were cuffed while testing the physical security of a courthouse? The burglary charges have been dropped
Criminal charges have been dropped against two infosec professionals who were arrested during a sanctioned physical penetration test gone …
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Ashley Madison Breach Returns with Extortion Campaign
Five years after a huge data breach at extramarital affair website Ashley Madison gave criminals access to the credentials of roughly 32 …
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Iranian Hackers Target U.S. Gov. Vendor With Malware
APT34 has been spotted in a malware campaign targeting customers and employees of a company that works closely with U.S. federal agencies, …
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REvil Ransomware Crew Sponsors Underworld Hacking Competition
A notorious Russian threat group famed for its devastating ransomware attacks has funded a hacking competition being run on a dark web …
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Ransomware hits TV & radio news monitoring service TVEyes
A ransomware infection has brought down TVEyes, a company that manages a popular platform for monitoring TV and radio news broadcasts, …
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Travelex hobbles back online, one month after ransomware hit it hard
Precisely one month ago, foreign currency exchange service Travelex was hit hard by ransomware. The firm was hit by the ransomware attack …
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WireGuard VPN Protocol Coming to a Linux Kernel Near You
The WireGuard virtual private networking (VPN) protocol is coming to the Linux kernel, much to the delight of Linux creator Linus Torvalds. …
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US County’s Computers Still Down Nine Days After Ransomware Attack
A county in the Pacific Northwestern state of Oregon is yet to fully recover from a ransomware attack that happened over a week ago. …
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AppSec Concerns Drove 61% of Businesses to Change Applications
According to new Dark Reading research, some respondents have even left behind commercial off-the-shelf software and migrated to …
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Tech companies, we see through your flimsy privacy promises
why Data Privacy Day pisses me off. January 28 was the annual “Hallmark holiday” for cybersecurity, ostensibly a day devoted to …
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Excel is being used as fresh bait for phishers- here’s how.
Evil Corp has found a new way to phish their victims- using Microsoft Excel documents. The cybercrime group, also known as TA505 and …
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