What’s the safest way to buy counterfeit banknotes? Not on the dark web market, as 235 people have just discovered to their cost.
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Teen SWATter who had 400 schools evacuated lands 3 years in jail
George Duke-Cohan is the British teen who posed as a worried father whose daughter had called him mid-flight during a hijacking.
Facebook fined $11m for misleading users about how data will be used
They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it’s making big bucks off users’ data. They ordered the company to apologize.
Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites
Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing administrator usernames and passwords.
Android click fraud apps mimic Apple iPhones to boost revenue
SophosLabs has uncovered a click fraud campaign in which malicious Android apps masquerade as being hosted on Apple devices to earn rewards.
Microsoft’s gutting Edge and stuffing it with Chromium
Edge joins Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, and Brave. Better for web compatibility, but if one thing breaks, they all break.
Microsoft calls for laws on facial recognition, issues principles
Profits are nice, but “We don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom,” says President Brad Smith.
Flash zero-day exploit spotted – patch now!
If you’re among the holdouts still running Flash, you have some more updating homework to do.
Kids’ VTech tablets vulnerable to eavesdropping hackers
Attackers can boobytrap what should be access to only parent-vetted sites and can take over the webcam, speakers and microphone.
Unencrypted medical data leads to 12-state litigation
The Attorneys general of 12 states are suing an e-record provider who lost 3.9 million personal healthcare records in 2015.