Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker’s Buck
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:00:00 +0000
By exploiting the WS-Discovery protocol, a new breed of DDoS attack can get a huge rate of return.
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A Password-Exposing Bug Was Purged From LastPass
Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:57:51 +0000
Google Project Zero found and reported a flaw in the widely used password manager.
Read moreLittle Red Riding Hood and the Wolf-in-the-Middle
Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:37:19 +0000
Folk tales are a fount of wisdom, but not many would use them to teach children the basics of information security. Well, you could!
Read moreThere She Breaches! Watch Out For Your Identity Data!
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:06:03 +0000
Data breaches keep on coming. Here’s what you can do to stay ahead of the hackers Money makes the world go around. It’s the glue that holds our society together and the engine that drives our economy. But it’s also coveted by a growing global population of highly resourceful and determined cyber-criminals. They’re out to…
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Read moreWhy France and Germany fear Facebook’s cryptocurrency – and plan to block it
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Facebook’s plans to launch its own Libra cryptocurrency next year is getting resistance from France and Germany who have promised to block it and plan to create their own national cryptocurrencies.
Last week, the two nations said Libra could threaten the Euro’s value and unlawfully privatize money. Last year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, announced a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies by any regulated financial entity because of risks associated with it.
Wayback Wednesday: When you said ‘gone for good,’ I only heard ‘good’
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
User comes to this support pilot fish complaining that his PC is acting strangely.
“It turns out he had gotten his computer so jammed up with spyware and Trojans that it was basically nonfunctional,” says fish. “We had to rebuild the computer from scratch.” They were able to recover much of user’s work and files, but some were irretrievably damaged — or just plain gone .
Fish explains what happened and points out the probable infection vectors. And he explains that they had recovered as much as they could, but some stuff was simply gone for good. There would be no way to get anything more.
“Two days later, he called to ask when I’m going to bring him the rest of his missing files.”
How to monitor Windows to prevent credential theft attacks
Attackers are now enabling WDigest credential caching to allow them to harvest credentials. Here’s how to spot it.
The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory.
Read moreA Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect
Credit to Author: Lauren Smiley| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn’t see anything. But her Fitbit did.
Read moreAfter 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:00:00 +0000
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Read moreMozilla first reveals, then conceals, paid support plan for Firefox
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:56:00 -0700
Mozilla earlier this month quietly outlined paid support for enterprise users of Firefox, but last week scrubbed the reference from its website, saying that it is “still exploring that option.”
The offering – labeled “Mozilla Enterprise Client Support” – was to start at $10 per “supported installation,” which likely referred to per-device, not per-user, pricing. It’s unclear whether that was an annual or monthly fee, and Mozilla declined to say which it was when asked.
In return for the fee, Mozilla said on the now-absent Firefox enterprise site – still visible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – customers would be able to privately report bugs via a new web portal and receive fixes on a timeline dependent on the impact and urgency of the problem. Customers would also be able to file requests for help with Firefox’s installation and deployment, management policies, functionality and customization.