Month: January 2019

MalwareBytesSecurity

Hosting malicious sites on legitimate servers: How do threat actors get away with it?

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Is money all hosting providers care about when it comes to allowing malicious sites on their servers? Or is there more at play? We embark on an investigation to discover their motives.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Get 3 Years of NordVPN Service for Just $2.99 Per Month – Deal Alert

Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 07:47:00 -0800

NordVPN promises a private and fast path through the public internet, with no logs, unmetered access for 6 simultaneous devices and access to 5,232 servers worldwide. They are currently running a promotion, but you’ll have to use this link to find it. Its typical price has been discounted for 3 years of service — a good deal at just $2.99 per month.  See the $2.99/month NordVPN deal here.

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SecurityTrendMicro

This Week in Security News: Risky Radio Remotes and Cybercrime

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:18:00 +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 about Trend Micro’s new research on radio frequency technology and the risks of radio remote controllers. Also, understand why there is a rise in physical crime…

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IndependentKrebs

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:11:08 +0000

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessly dubbed it “the largest collection ever of breached data found.” But in an interview with the apparent seller, KrebsOnSecurity learned that it is not even close to the largest gathering of stolen data, and that it is at least two to three years old.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

'We need new privacy laws,' urges Apple CEO Tim Cook

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:25:00 -0800

In a sidelong slap at the business model of Facebook, Google and others, Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an article in which he urges the U.S. government to put surveillance capitalists/data brokers under transparent legal oversight.

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“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy — yours, mine, all of ours.” Cook writes in an article for Time Magazine.

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