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Monthly Archives: October 2018
How one man could have taken over any business on Facebook
The recently patched flaw would have enabled anyone to make themselves an administrator for any Facebook business account.
Google’s stealthy reCAPTCHA v3 detects humans – no questions asked
After 20 years of waiting you’ll no longer feel your will to live drain away as you solve tedious visual puzzles. Maybe.
Crypto exchange collapses, victims accuse it of exit scam
Another day, another exchange goes down – but was it a hack or an exit scam?
Mirai author fined $8.6million, gets 6 months house arrest
An Alaskan court has handed one of the Mirai authors a huge fine.
Alleged SWATter will plead guilty to dozens of serious new federal charges
The long list of charges includes bank fraud, involuntary manslaughter, cyberstalking and wire fraud.
Gov worker visits 9k porn sites without protection, spreads infection
A now very “ex”-government employee provides a teachable moment.
Snakes in the grass! Malicious code slithers into Python PyPI repository
Not for the first time, typosquatting malware made its way into an open source code repository.
China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance.
Self driving cars learn (from us) about who to sacrifice in a cash
It’s bad news for overweight, elderly, male jaywalkers.