They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Adobe fixes 46 critical bugs in patchfest
Adobe patched a total of 82 vulnerabilities across a range of products on Tuesday, including 46 critical bugs.
Food writer Jack Monroe loses at least £5,000 in SIM-swap fraud
Her accounts were drained in spite of using 2FA, showing that SIM swaps can still circumvent what’s a good security tool.
Pitney Bowes and Groupe M6 join ransomware’s victim list
Two more large organisations find themselves struggling after a ransomware attack…
Update now! Windows users targeted by iTunes Software Updater zero-day
The flaw is a rare ‘unquoted path class’ described as “so thoroughly documented that you would expect programmers to be well aware…” But that’s not the case.
Soldering spy chips inside firewalls is now a cheap hack, shows researcher
The tiny ATtiny85 chip doesn’t look like the next big cyberthreat facing the world, but sneaking one on to a firewall motherboard would be bad news for security were it to happen.
Hacker asking $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.
Most Americans don’t have a clue what https:// means
…and wouldn’t know 2FA from a hole in the ground, according to Pew Research.
Hackers bypassing some types of 2FA security FBI warns
Some types of 2FA security can no longer be guaranteed to keep the bad guys out, the FBI warned US companies.
October Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical remote desktop bug
Microsoft fixed 59 vulnerabilities in October’s Patch Tuesday, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws.