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Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:16:38 +0000
All this trouble just for some Monero<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Bs6eVtcm9SE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 05:57:00 -0800
Late last week, I talked about a discrepancy in Microsoft’s promised handling of Microsoft Security Essentials as Windows 7 reaches end of support. An internally inconsistent official announcement seemed to say that MSE signature file updates would stop — even for those who have paid for Extended Security Updates.
Which is absurd. Why would Microsoft stop updating its antivirus program even for people who are paying to continue receiving Monthly Rollup patches?
Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 05:46:00 -0800
There is nothing more quintessentially mobile than text messages, the most commonly used communication method today. That’s why it was very unsettling that a security research house found — and the vendor at issue essentially confirmed — that a massive number of text messages were stored in plaintext, with no security at all. In short, the texts from what the security research firm estimated were “hundreds of millions of people” were open to any thief or stalker who wanted to look.
The company involved, an Austin-based business called TrueDialog, would likely be unknown to almost all of those users. TrueDialog is a marketing firm offering SMS products and services to other companies — a lot of companies. That will make it hard for consumers to even know if their texts were victimized. Text message users were able to text back, giving the impression of having two-way conversations with businesses.
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FortiGuard Labs uncovered several vulnerabilities in Portainer, and has been working with the Portainer team to address them. Learn more about each vulnerability in this technical advisory.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/lEt6aibW0kc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:00:57 +0000
Aluminum supplier Norsk Hydro was attacked by LockerGoga, a form of ransomware. Learn how the company recovered and got back to business as usual.
The post Norsk Hydro responds to ransomware attack with transparency appeared first on Microsoft Security.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:09:10 +0000
Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.”
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids.
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