Krebs – Page 45 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:48:39 +0000

In May 2013, the U.S. Justice Department seized Liberty Reserve, alleging the virtual currency service acted as a $6 billion financial hub for the cybercrime world. Prompted by assurances that the government would one day afford Liberty Reserve users a chance to reclaim any funds seized as part of the takedown, KrebsOnSecurity filed a claim shortly thereafter to see if and when this process might take place. This week, an investigator with the U.S. Internal Revenue service finally got in touch to discuss my claim.

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February 11, 2020 admin

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2020 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:13:57 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 100 security holes in various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that is actively being exploited. Also, Adobe has issued a bevy of security updates for its various products, including Flash Player and Adobe Reader/Acrobat.

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February 10, 2020 admin

U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 03:25:52 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. DOJ officials said the four men were responsible for carrying out the largest theft of sensitive personal information by state-sponsored hackers ever recorded.

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February 8, 2020 admin

Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:32:04 +0000

As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.

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February 5, 2020 admin

When Your Used Car is a Little Too ‘Mobile’

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:44:26 +0000

Many modern vehicles let owners use the Internet or a mobile device to control the car’s locks, track location and performance data, and start the engine. But who exactly owns that control is not always clear when these smart cars are sold or leased anew. Here’s the story of one former electric vehicle owner who discovered he could still gain remote, online access to his old automobile years after his lease ended.

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February 4, 2020 admin

Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:05:08 +0000

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service.

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January 31, 2020 admin

Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:06:18 +0000

On Sept. 11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. On Thursday Jan. 30, prosecutors in Iowa announced they had dropped the criminal charges. The news came while KrebsOnSecurity was conducting a video interview with the two accused (featured below).

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January 29, 2020 admin

Sprint Exposed Customer Support Site to Web

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:02:56 +0000

Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp. leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web.