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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:17:29 +0000
Over a dozen alleged members of the notorious ransomware group have been arrested, but the Kremlin’s critics are wary of the underlying motivation.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:48:40 +0000
What’s worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One reader’s nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID thieves and hackers start targeting online payday lenders.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:10:00 -0800
For this week’s Patch Tuesday, the first of the year, Microsoft addressed 97 security issues, six of them rated critical. Though six vulnerabilities have been publicly reported, I do not classify them as zero-days. Microsoft has fixed a lot of security related issues and is aware of several known issues that may have inadvertently caused significant server issues including:
There are a variety of known issues this month, and I’m not sure whether we’ll see more issues reported with the January server patches. You can find more information on the risk of deploying these latest updates with our helpful infographic.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000
The regime had a “banner year,” thanks to skyrocketing cryptocurrency values and a new generation of vulnerable startups.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:11:36 +0000
Up for the “Most Meta Cybercrime Offering” award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and those selling authentication cookies for a slew of popular websites.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:43:00 -0800
Every time Apple attempts to inject a little more privacy into the digital world, it faces pushback – but the evidence suggests opponents would be better off going along for the ride.
Take Do Not Track for ads and the move to quash IDFA tracking in iOS 14. When Apple first announced its plan, critics across the ad industry complained it would damage their business.
Apple counter-argued that it would simply inspire advertisers to think more creatively about how to reach customers — while also providing more privacy to those customers.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:15:06 +0000
If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 02:00:18 +0000
The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools.
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