How my face got stolen
Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:00:42 +0000
One day I found out that someone was passing off my photos as their own. Here’s what I did.
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The iCloud hackers' bitcoin ransom looks like a fake
Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:02:00 -0700
A group of hackers who claimed to hold millions of iCloud accounts for ransom said on Friday it had been paid. But one bitcoin expert said that’s bogus.
The Turkish Crime Family grabbed headlines last month by claiming it had the stolen login credentials for more than 700 million icloud.com, me.com and mac.com accounts. The group demanded increasing ransoms from Apple while threatening to wipe the data from devices connected to the affected accounts if it did not.
On Friday, the hackers tweeted that they had been paid $480,000 in bitcoin. As proof, the group posted a link showing a transaction on Blockchain.info, a popular bitcoin wallet.
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Angry Shadow Brokers release password for suspected NSA hacking tools
Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:45:00 -0700
Annoyed with the U.S. missile strike last week on an airfield in Syria, among other things, hacker group Shadow Brokers resurfaced and released what it said was the password to files containing suspected National Security Agency tools it had earlier tried to sell.
“Is appearing you are abandoning ‘your base’, ‘the movement’, and the peoples who getting you elected,” the group wrote in broken English in a letter to President Donald Trump posted online on Saturday.
The hacker group, believed by some security experts to have Russian links, released in January an arsenal of tools that appeared designed to spy on Windows systems, after trying to to sell these and other supposedly Windows and Unix hacking tools for bitcoin.
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5 Common Myths that Stop People from Using an Antivirus
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:00:40 +0000
While the growth of cyber threats and malware artists is rampant, most of us still feel that antivirus for our computer is unnecessary and may cause more trouble than it’s worth. Here are some myths that stop people from using an antivirus, where we also tell you why should you…
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Read MoreAlleged Spam King Pyotr Levashov Arrested
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:17:09 +0000
Authorities in Spain have arrested a Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world’s most notorious spam kingpins. Spanish police arrested Pyotr Levashov under an international warrant executed in the city of Barcelona, according to Reuters. Russian state-run television station RT (formerly Russia Today) reported that Levashov was arrested while vacationing in Spain with his family. According to numerous stories here at KrebsOnSecurity, Levashov was better known as “Severa,” the hacker moniker used by a pivotal figure in many popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. Severa was the moderator for the spam subsection of multiple online communities, and in this role served as the virtual linchpin connecting virus writers with huge spam networks that Severa allegedly created and sold himself.
Read MoreSSD Advisory – Horde Groupware Webmail Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Credit to Author: Maor Schwartz| Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 10:28:46 +0000
Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory describes two (2) vulnerabilities found in Horde Groupware Webmail. Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is a free, enterprise ready, browser based communication suite. Users can read, send and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, files, and bookmarks with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Horde Groupware Webmail Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Read MoreTax Scams Are Absurdly Common. Here’s How to Protect Yourself
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 11:00:14 +0000
Tax fraud is a free-for-all, it’s time to take back some control. The post Tax Scams Are Absurdly Common. Here’s How to Protect Yourself appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreSecurity News This Week: Taser Bets Big on the Surveillance State
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:02:34 +0000
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Taser Bets Big on the Surveillance State appeared first on WIRED.
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