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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Don’t let the crooks ‘borrow’ your home router as a hacking server
Crooks don’t have to break *into* your network to benefit – they can bounce *off* it so you take the blame and look like a hacker yourself.
Scammers recruiting money mules on dating sites is on the rise, says FBI
It’s not longer enough to be wary of flash-in-the-pan “lovers” who ask you to send money; now they’re asking you to open accounts for them.
Don’t fall for fake Equifax settlement sites, warns FTC
Equifictitious sites popped up within days of Equifax agreeing to pay up to $700m to settle claims over the 2017 data breach.
Banking PINs exposed in Monzo secure storage slip-up
When is a secure PIN not a secure PIN? When you accidentally store it in your log files.
Latest Android patches fix critical ‘QualPwn’ Wi-Fi flaws
The August 2019 security bulletin is out – and two of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.
Baldr malware unpicked with a little help from crooks’ bad opsec
New research from Sophos takes an exhaustive look at the Baldr password stealer.
NVIDIA patches high-severity bugs in Windows GPUs and SHIELD
NVIDIA has patched five bugs in its Windows GPU display driver, three of which could allow an attacker to execute code on the system.
Fake Dell support rep admits to talking US colleges out of $874,000
His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya for nearly 8 months before being nabbed.
GitHub ‘encourages’ hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach
The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being “friendly” (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers’ posts.