Chrome extensions abuse millions with adware
Credit to Author: Marina Mash| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:00:45 +0000
Too many ads on your computer lately? Malicious Chrome extensions might be to blame.
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Month: February 2019
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000
With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.
Read MoreThe Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes
Credit to Author: Zeynep Tufekci| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000
It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.
Read MoreA week in security (February 11 – 17)
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:30:22 +0000
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| A roundup of security news from February 11-17 covering sextortion, Facebook phishing, Emotet, exploit kits, whole team security, anti-phishing plan, and lots more. Categories: Tags: anti-phishing-planbank of valettaemotetexploit kitssextortionsgxVFEmailwhole team securitywordpress plugin |
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Read MoreCrack hunting: not all it’s cracked up to be
Credit to Author: Tammy Stewart| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0000
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| People sometimes ask us in the forums if a keygen or software crack is safe to use. In this post, we’ll describe what happened when one of our researchers went crack hunting, and why it is often unsafe to carry out this activity. Categories: Tags: crack huntingkeygenPUPssoftware crack |
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Read MoreA Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000
The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers.
Read MoreWhat Is Credential Stuffing?
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000
What happens to all those emails and passwords that get leaked? They’re frequently used to try to break into users’ other accounts across the internet.
Read MoreChinese Surveillance, Facebook Tracking, and More Security News This Week
Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:00:00 +0000
3-D printed rifles, Iran missile hacking, and more of the week’s top security news.
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