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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:42:39 +0000

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations.

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June 7, 2018 admin

Adobe Patches Zero-Day Flash Flaw

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:37:50 +0000

Adobe has released an emergency update to address a critical security hole in its Flash Player browser plugin that is being actively exploited to deploy malicious software. If you’ve got Flash installed — and if you’re using Google Chrome or a recent version of Microsoft Windows you do — it’s time once again to make sure your copy of Flash is either patched, hobbled or removed.

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June 6, 2018 admin

Further Down the Trello Rabbit Hole

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:45:13 +0000

Last month’s story about organizations exposing passwords and other sensitive data via collaborative online spaces at Trello.com only scratched the surface of the problem. A deeper dive suggests a large number of government agencies, marketing firms, healthcare organizations and IT support companies are publishing credentials via public Trello boards that quickly get indexed by the major search engines.

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June 5, 2018 admin

Researcher Finds Credentials for 92 Million Users of DNA Testing Firm MyHeritage

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:50:12 +0000

MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million of its users.

Independent Krebs

June 1, 2018 admin

Are Your Google Groups Leaking Data?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:29:00 +0000

Google is reminding organizations to review how much of their Google Groups mailing lists should be public and indexed by Google.com. The notice was prompted in part by a review that KrebsOnSecurity undertook with several researchers who’ve been busy cataloging thousands of companies that are using public Google Groups lists to manage customer support and in some cases sensitive internal communications.

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June 1, 2018 admin

Is Your Google Groups Leaking Data?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:29:00 +0000

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May 29, 2018 admin

Will the Real Joker’s Stash Come Forward?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 16:33:34 +0000

For as long as scam artists have been around so too have opportunistic thieves who specialize in ripping off other scam artists. This is the story about a group of Pakistani Web site designers who apparently have made an impressive living impersonating some of the most popular and well known “carding” markets, or online stores that sell stolen credit cards.

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May 28, 2018 admin

FBI: Kindly Reboot Your Router Now, Please

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:54:22 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that a new malware threat has rapidly infected more than a half-million consumer devices. To help arrest the spread of the malware, the FBI and security firms are urging home Internet users to reboot routers and network-attached storage devices made by a range of technology manufacturers.