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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:12:46 +0000

Deloitte, one of the world’s “big four” accounting firms, has acknowledged a breach of its internal email systems, British news outlet The Guardian revealed today. Deloitte has sought to downplay the incident, saying it impacted “very few” clients. But according to a source close to the investigation, the breach dates back to at least the fall of 2016, and involves the compromise of all administrator accounts at the company as well as Deloitte’s entire internal email system.

Independent Krebs

September 26, 2017 admin

Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:49:39 +0000

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author — involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at “swatting” — a dangerous hoax in which the perpetrator spoofs a call […]

Independent MotherBoard Security

September 26, 2017 admin

Want More Diverse Entertainment? A New Site Has You Covered

Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:34:34 +0000

Li Lai wanted a resource to suss out media, but it didn’t exist. So she made it.

Independent MotherBoard Security

September 26, 2017 admin

One of Earth’s Largest Living Organisms Is About to Have Its Genome Sequenced

Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:09:49 +0000

Scientists will sequence the genomes of the coast redwood and giant sequoia.

MalwareBytes Security

September 26, 2017 admin

Keychain vulnerability in macOS

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:11:06 +0000

On Monday, Patrick Wardle, a respected security researcher at Synack and owner of Objective-See, sent a tweet about a keychain vulnerability he had found in macOS High Sierra. As his tweet showed, it is possible for a malicious app to extract, and then exfiltrate, keychain data from High Sierra, with passwords clearly exposed in plain text.

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