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Tag Archives: Security threats
On the hook! Phishing trip nets “Barbara” 5 years and whopping fine
The romance and business email compromise scammer pled guilty to fraud amounting to $25m.
Blockchain hustler beats the house with smart contract hack
A hacker used their own code to tamper with a smart contract run by a betting company, and walked off with $24,000.
Veeam leaves MongoDB database wide open, exposes 445m records
The data-management firm’s customer database held names, email addresses, some IP addresses and more: a wealth of ammo for phishers.
California bill regulates IoT for first time in US
California looks set to regulate IoT devices, becoming the first US state to do so and beating the Federal Government to the post.
Update now! Microsoft’s September 2018 Patch Tuesday is here
September’s Patch Tuesday is upon Windows users – 61 CVEs, 17 flaws rated as critical, a zero-day and a flaw affecting Adobe Flash Player.
Microsoft purges 3,000 tech support scams hiding on TechNet
Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that infested the company’s TechNet support domain.
Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords
Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with “one-way encryption” and is “adding more security measures”.
Yikes: 1 in 5 employees share their email passwords with coworkers
19% of employees of small and medium-sized businesses share their passwords with coworkers or assistants, according to a recent survey.
Keybase browser extension weakness discovered
Respected researcher Wladimir Palant has recommended users “uninstall the Keybase browser extension ASAP” after discovering a gap in its end-to-end encryption.