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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.

Security Wired

February 18, 2019 admin

The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes

Credit to Author: Zeynep Tufekci| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.

MalwareBytes Security

February 18, 2019 admin

A week in security (February 11 – 17)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:30:22 +0000

A roundup of security news from February 11-17 covering sextortion, Facebook phishing, Emotet, exploit kits, whole team security, anti-phishing plan, and lots more.

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Tags: anti-phishing-plan bank of valetta emotet exploit kits sextortion sgx VFEmail whole team security wordpress plugin

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February 18, 2019 admin

Crack hunting: not all it’s cracked up to be

Credit to Author: Tammy Stewart| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0000

People sometimes ask us in the forums if a keygen or software crack is safe to use. In this post, we’ll describe what happened when one of our researchers went crack hunting, and why it is often unsafe to carry out this activity.

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Tags: crack hunting keygen PUPs software crack

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Independent Krebs

February 18, 2019 admin

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers.

Security Wired

February 17, 2019 admin

What Is Credential Stuffing?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

What happens to all those emails and passwords that get leaked? They’re frequently used to try to break into users’ other accounts across the internet.

Security Wired

February 16, 2019 admin