Yearly Archives: 2019

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Ongoing DNS Hijacking Campaign Targets Gmail, PayPal, Netflix Users

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Credits: Security Week

As part of the campaign, the attackers compromised consumer routers to modify their DNS settings and redirect users to rogue websites to steal their login credentials.

Bad Packets security researchers, who have been following the attacks since December, have identified […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Blockchain, for Threat Intelligence Maybe?

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Credits: CPO Magazine

It is the need of the hour that the industries, economies and people are interconnected to each other. Both at the personal and commercial level, we are getting connected with multiple devices through computers, mobile phones, appliances, commercial equipment […]

By |April 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

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Credits: The Register

A family staying at an Airbnb rental in Ireland made an unsettling discovery when they found their unit had a hidden camera livestreaming their stay.

The Barker Family of Auckland New Zealand were staying at a property in Cork as part of […]

By |April 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

FBI catches heat, HS kids catch a hacking rap, and Albany catches a ransomware infection

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Credits: The Register
NAS-ty hole spotted in iSCSI boxes
Another day, another massive data exposure from devices erroneously left wide open to the public internet.

This time, it’s a collection of some 13,500 iSCSI storage devices that were left open to be crawled by […]

By |April 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Mystery of the Chinese woman who allegedly tried to sneak into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago with a USB stick of malware

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Credits: The Register

A Chinese woman was caught sneaking into President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club with a thumb drive of malware, it was claimed yesterday.

Yujing Zhang, 32, was collared after possibly trying to slip into a bash at the swanky resort promoted […]

By |April 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

Hey, what’s Mandarin for ‘WTF is going on?’ Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed

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Credits: The Register

An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.

The handsets spaffed the data in clear text over the internet to a server behind the domain vnet.cn, […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Let’s spin Facebook’s Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack… clack… You’ve won ‘100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext’

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Facebook today admitted it stored “some” of its addicts’ account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For “some”, read hundreds of millions.

The antisocial network quietly made the mea culpa in a statement that followed its breathless announcement of the Oculus Rift […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Kaspersky Lab takes bite out of Apple in Russia over borked parental controls app

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Credits: The Register

Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has lodged a complaint about Apple with the Russian competition authority.

It follows Apple’s rejection of Kaspersky’s Safe Kids app because of two features the latter regards as essential.

“According to Apple, the use of configuration profiles […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP

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Credits: ABC News

Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP.

The change is necessary, as Microsoft is unleashing its endpoint protection platform onto the hitherto virgin […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

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The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.

This is according to a report (registration required) from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation provider NexusGuard, who say that both the overall number of attacks and […]

By |March 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|