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MacOS High Sierra Users: Change Root Password Now

November 28, 2017 admin Lemi Orhan Ergin, MacOS High Siera, Other, root exploit

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:34:22 +0000

A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as the all-powerful “root” user without supplying a password. Fortunately, there is a simple fix for this until Apple patches this inexplicable bug: Change the root account’s password now.

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Fund Targets Victims Scammed Via Western Union

November 20, 2017 admin Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Gilardi & Co., justice department, moneygram, Other, western union

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:25:09 +0000

If you, a friend or loved one lost money in a scam involving Western Union, some or all of those funds may be recoverable thanks to a more than half-billion dollar program set up by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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R.I.P. root9B? We Hardly Knew Ya!

November 15, 2017 admin Fancy Bear, national security agency, NSA, Other, root9B Holdings, root9B Technologies, RTNB, seekingalpha.com, Sofacy, tracker capital management llc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:25:58 +0000

root9B, a company that many in the security industry considered little more than a big-name startup aimed at cashing in on the stock market’s insatiable appetite for cybersecurity firms, surprised no one this week when it announced it was ceasing operations at the end of the year. Founded in 2011, Colorado Springs, Colo. based root9B Technologies touted itself as an IT security training firm staffed by an impressive list of ex-military leaders with many years of cybersecurity experience at the Department of Defense and National Security Agency (NSA). As it began to attract more attention from investors, root9B’s focus shifted to helping organizations hunt for cyber intruders within their networks.

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R.I.P. root9B, We Hardly Knew Ya!

November 15, 2017 admin Fancy Bear, national security agency, NSA, Other, root9B Holdings, root9B Technologies, RTNB, seekingalpha.com, Sofacy, tracker capital management llc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:25:58 +0000

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Adobe, Microsoft Patch Critical Cracks

November 14, 2017 admin adobe, chrome, CVE-2017-13080, Edge, Flash Player, Gill Langston, Internet Explorer, Ivanti, KRACK, microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2017, Other, Qualys, windows

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:12:32 +0000

It’s Nov. 14 — the second Tuesday of the month (a.k.a. “Patch Tuesday) — and Adobe and Microsoft have issued gobs of security updates for their software. Microsoft’s 11 patch bundles fix more than four-dozen security holes in various Windows versions and Office products — including at least four serious flaws that were publicly disclosed prior to today. Meanwhile, Adobe’s got security updates available for a slew of titles, including Flash Player, Photoshop, Reader and Shockwave.

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How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History

November 13, 2017 admin Amazon, AT&T, Equifax, Equifax breach, Facebook, Fast Company, Joel Winston, Marisa Salcines, microsoft, Oracle, Other, TALX, The Work Number, Twitter, Wal-Mart

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:55:19 +0000

A KrebsOnSecurity series on how easy big-three credit bureau Equifax makes it to get detailed salary history data on tens of millions of Americans apparently inspired a deeper dive on the subject by Fast Company, which examined how this Equifax division has been one of the company’s best investments. In this post, I’ll show you how to opt out of yet another Equifax service that makes money at the expense of your privacy.

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Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man

November 10, 2017 admin Anonymous, FBI, John Kelsey Gammell, Other, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:00:12 +0000

A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked last year, and its customer database of payments and targets leaked to this author and to the FBI.

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DDoS-for-Hire Service Launches Mobile App

November 9, 2017 admin 901-219-3644, Alex Czech, Alex Slovak, ddos, justin poland, Other, Ragebooter

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:55:52 +0000

In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child pornography, but his business somehow lived on while he was in prison. Now just weeks after Poland made probation, a mobile version of the attack-for-hire service has gone up for sale on the Google Play store.