The Mirai Botnet Is Attacking Again… And the spinoff bots – and all their command and control hostnames buried in the morass of digital data – are hilarious. The Mirai botnet is kind of like Madonna. They both were huge once. Then the adoring public shifted their attention to younger, newer […]
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Two Muscovites have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in the biggest data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted in the United States. Three co-conspirators are still at large. Vladimir Drinkman, 37 and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, had previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy to commit wire […]
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Heartland Payment Systems: remember that decade-old breach? What was then the sixth-largest payments processor in the US announced back in 2009 that its processing systems had been breached the year before. Within days, it had been classified as the biggest ever criminal breach of card data. One estimate claimed 100 million cards and […]
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D’après notre correspondante à Sousse, Ines Hammami, un enfant de 11 ans, originaire de la délégation de Bouficha est décédé à l’hôpital universitaire de Sahloul. L’enfant a sombré dans un coma après une tentative de suicide à sa maison avant de succomber à une crise cardiaque. Des sources informées ont […]
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The Russian central bank’s Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team (FinCERT) disclosed on Friday that hackers compromised a computer at a Russian bank and used the SWIFT system to transfer 339.5 million roubles (around $6 million) to accounts they controlled. No details about the heist have been shared, so […]
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More than 30 lawsuits have been filed by Intel customers and shareholders against the chip giant following the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre attack methods. Three class action lawsuits were filed against Intel within a week of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws being disclosed, but the number had reached 32 by […]
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Dell EMC fixed two critical flaws in its management interfaces for its VMAX enterprise storage systems. One of the vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to use a hard-coded password to a default account to gain unauthorized access to systems. The company issued updates that address the two vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-1215 and CVE-2018-1216, on […]
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Another day another Bitcoin scam in which unsuspected users have been targeted by cybercriminals and the numbers of victims keeps growing with every passing day. In the latest scam, the government of Austria is seeking the help of Interpol to track down scammers who stole more than $155 million worth of Bitcoin from hundreds […]
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Another day, another data breach – This time it is Retina-X Studios, a well know spyware developing firm. There are different types of hackers, some hack for profit while some hack for good and then there are hacktivists who do it for the cause. Recently a hacktivist has dropped a bombshell […]
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Researchers discovered an Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 US and international citizens. It has happened again, researchers discovered another unsecured Amazon S3 bucket holding a huge trove of data that was exposed online. The Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and […]
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