How to Get Your Equifax Settlement Money
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:09:06 +0000
A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure they pay up.
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Month: July 2019
Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:45:12 +0000
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| We take a look at how a shoeshine scam nearly took place in real life—until people online trying to help in one way, ended up assisting in quite another. Categories: Tags: indiascamshoe shinesocial mediatraveltravellingtwitter |
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Read MoreWindows Server 2008 End of Support: Are you Prepared?
Credit to Author: Pawan Kinger (Director, Deep Security Labs)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:42:36 +0000
On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft’s widely deployed Windows Server 2003 reached end of life after nearly 12 years of support. For millions of enterprise servers, this meant the end of security updates, leaving the door open to serious security risks. Now, we are fast approaching the end of life of another server operating system –…
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Read MoreThis Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:57:24 +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 an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to hijacked accounts to perform lateral phishing attacks on…
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Read MoreZegost from Within – New Campaign Targeting Internal Interests
FortiGuard Labs has released a new playbook on the threat actor group named Yet Another Panda. Learn more about a recent spear phishing email campaign containing the Zegost info stealer malware.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/49hGDVcEPgo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Mozilla blames 'interlocking complex systems' and confusion for Firefox's May add-on outage
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Mozilla has issued multiple after-action reports analyzing the major mix-up in May that crippled most Firefox add-ons. The reports also made recommendations for preventing similar incidents in the future.
The fiasco started just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday, May 3, when a certificate used to digitally sign Firefox extensions expired. Because Mozilla had neglected to renew the certificate, Firefox assumed add-ons could not be trusted – that they were potentially malicious – and disabled any already installed. Add-ons could not be added to the browser for the same reason.
Trinity Miner using open ADB port to target IoT devices
Credit to Author: Vallabh Chole| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:08:11 +0000
In the 21st century, life is becoming smart and evolving at a fast pace. Even day to day gadgets are becoming smarter. All these IoT devices are powered by ARM-based processor and run on android and unix operating system. These IoT devices include mobiles, smart T.V., routers, IP cameras and…
Read MoreResearchers to launch intentionally ‘vulnerable’ blockchain at Black Hat
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:06:00 -0700
Hoping to raise awareness about blockchain vulnerabilities, cybersecurity firm Kudelski Security next week plans to launch the industry’s first “purposefully vulnerable” blockchain – and will demo it at next month’s Black Hat conference.
Kudelski Security’s FumbleChain project is aimed at highlighting vulnerabilities in blockchain ecosystems, according to Nathan Hamiel, head of cybersecurity research at Kudelski.
The flawed blockchain ledger is written in Python 3.0, making it easy for anyone to read and modify its source code, and it’s modular – allowing users to hack and add new challenges to promote continuous learning.