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Most hackers for hire are scammers, research shows
Google & UC San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets.
Microsoft slaps down 99 APT35/Charming Kitten domains
Court order in hand, Microsoft seized control of the hacker group’s (which it calls Phosphorous) phishing sites.
Sneaky phishing campaign beats two-factor authentication
Protecting an account with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a no-brainer, but that doesn’t mean every method for doing this is equally secure.
Why Yahoo scanning user email is no cause for panic
The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an unsettling report that the owner of Yahoo, Verizon subsidiary Oath, has been quietly analysing the emails of its 200 million users to sell to advertisers.
Could this be the end of password re-use?
It’s password security’s Achilles heel: too many people make life easy for cybercriminals by re-using the same ones over and over. But what if there were a way for websites to compare notes on whether a password (or similar password) has been set by a user elsewhere?
Yahoo fined $35m for staying quiet about mega breach
The smallest thing about the Yahoo mega-breach is the fine
Yahoo mega-breach hacker faces nearly 8 years in prison
The hacker exposed half a billion Yahoo accounts on behalf of Russia’s FSB
What would YOU do with a $1,000,000 exploit? [Chet Chat Podcast 220]
Here’s the past week’s news in a way that’s fun, informative and educational – all in a tight, quarter-hour podcast format. (Plus – find out what Chester would do with the $1m!)
Java updater to stop pushing Ask Toolbar, will foist Yahoo search on you instead
Oracle’s Java, infamous in the past for bundling the Ask Toolbar as part of its install and update processes, is ditching Ask in favour of Yahoo’s search engine.