A wave of Telegram hacks hits: How to protect your account
Credit to Author: Nadezhda Demidova| Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:34:57 +0000
Avoid the phishing bait and protect your Telegram account
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Scammers spoof Office 365, DocuSign and others | Salted Hash Ep 21
As phishing attacks evolve, hackers are using customization and targeted scams to ensnare users. Asaf Cidon, vice president, email security services at Barracuda, talks with host Steve Ragan about the ever-changing cat-and-mouse game of phishing.
beVX Conference Challenge
Credit to Author: SSD / Noam Rathaus| Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:27:05 +0000
During the event of OffensiveCon, we launched a reverse engineering and encryption challenge and gave the attendees the change to win great prizes. The challenge was divided into two parts, a file – can be downloaded from here: https://www.beyondsecurity.com/bevxcon/bevx-challenge-1 – that you had to download and reverse engineer and server that you had to access … Continue reading beVX Conference Challenge
Read MoreNewly Found Equifax Victims, Apple Vulnerabilities, and More Security News This Week
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0000
A higher Equifax tally, Apple vulnerabilities, and more of the week’s top security news.
Read MoreFacebook Doesn’t Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:18:36 +0000
By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls’ true audience appear artificially low.
Read MoreOur Exposed World – Old exposures, new attacks
Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 16:28:01 +0000
Natasha Hellberg, Senior Threat Researcher FTR With assistance from William Gamazo Sanchez, DSLabs Within the last few days a new player has been introduced into the distribute denial of service (DDoS) amplification attack world and with it brings the potential for much larger DDoS attacks than what we have seen in the past. While most…
Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:41:55 +0000
Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which victims are asked to pay a ransom to call off crippling cyberattacks.
Read MoreMassive DDoS attack washes over GitHub
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:26:48 +0000
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| We take a look at the colossal DDoS attack on GitHub, the largest-ever on record. How did threat actors do it, and what can companies do to protect against it? Categories: Tags: ddosDDos attackGitHubmemcachedmemcrashedmemcrashing |
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