A man has been arrested a year after stealing €10m ($15m) of the IoT-focused cryptocurrency IOTA using bogus software that tricked users.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Bomb threat spam may stem from GoDaddy DNS weakness
A bomb threat spam campaign that hit North America last month may have been engineered using a flaw in GoDaddy’s domain management process, it was revealed this week.
100 million online bets exposed by leaky database
Online gamblers lose their private data as yet another unsecured Elasticsearch database is discovered.
Rogue websites can turn vulnerable browser extensions into back doors
A researcher has found that websites can use some extensions to bypass security policies, execute code, and even install other extensions.
DNC targeted by Russian hackers beyond 2018 midterms, it claims
The Democratic National Committee has filed a civil complaint accusing Russia of trying to hack its computers as recently as November 2018.
Attackers used a LinkedIn job ad and Skype call to breach bank’s defences
A Chilean Senator has taken to Twitter with alarming news – the company running the country’s ATM network suffered a serious cyberattack.
State agency exposes 3TB of data, including FBI info and remote logins
Oklahoma’s Department of Securities (ODS) exposed 3TB of files in plain text containing sensitive data on the public internet this month.
Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records
Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has revealed a huge cache of breached email addresses and passwords, which it has named Collection #1.
Email crooks swindle woman out of $150K from home sale
She sent her bank account details three times, she said. Unfortunately, they wound up in crooks’ hands, and her money wound up in their pockets.
Change your password! VoIP provider leaves huge database exposed online
A researcher has discovered an exposed database containing gigabytes of call logs, SMS data, and internal system credentials belonging to US Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo.com.