How risky is the Internet? Researchers say 42%
Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:18:39 +0000
Almost half of the most-visited websites open visitors to potential dangers. What can you do?
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Indian Bank Hit in $13.5M Cyberheist After FBI ATM Cashout Warning
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:27:10 +0000
On Sunday, Aug. 12, KrebsOnSecurity carried an exclusive: The FBI was warning banks about an imminent “ATM cashout” scheme about to unfold across the globe, thanks to a data breach at an unknown financial institution. On Aug. 14, a bank in India disclosed hackers had broken into its servers, stealing nearly $2 million in fraudulent bank transfers and $11.5 million unauthorized ATM withdrawals from more than two dozen cash machines across multiple countries.
Read MoreWhat you need to know for Patch Tuesday, August 2018
Credit to Author: Andrew ODonnell| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:16:44 +0000
With 23 critical vulnerabilities addressed in patches from Microsoft and Adobe, August is turning out to be a good month for updates — but don’t delay installing them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/_Fw-RIvgU1s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting 5G NR Deployment: A New Network of Technologies Dependent on Micro Data Centers
Credit to Author: Steven Carlini| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:29:55 +0000
In my last blog, Super-fast IoT Enabled 5G is Right Around the Corner, Or Is It?, I discussed how the industry was mobilizing to deliver on 5G and the promise… Read more »
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Read MoreA Bot Panic Hits Amazon Mechanical Turk
Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:38:35 +0000
Concerned social scientists turned their analytical skills onto one of their most widely used research tools this week: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Read More2 undocumented patches from Microsoft may solve the 1803 TLS 1.2 blocking problem
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:42:00 -0700
Microsoft’s KB 4458166, released on Tuesday, explains that the push to Win10 version 1803 has been halted for machines running .Net applications that use the TLS 1.2 security protocol. Presumably, effective Tuesday, if you have a Win10 1709 or 1703 machine that’s running one of those programs (including, notably, QuickBooks Desktop), Microsoft won’t try to push 1803 on it.
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Barclays phish claims cards explode
Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:00:02 +0000
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| We feel compelled to relay the dire warning from this Barclays snail-mail letter, which we acquired through social media, therefore it must be true. Categories: Tags: barclayscredit cardfailfakeLOLphishquality controlscamsnail mailsnail mail phish |
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Read MoreHijacking online accounts through voicemail
Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:50:43 +0000
When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.
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