Category: Threat Intel

3 ways to better secure your Facebook account http://ift.tt/28QAIif It’s been a little while since we’ve checked out the security measures that Facebook has to keep your account safe. Since Facebook is always changing things up, we thought it was about time we took a fresh look at what settings you should check to protect…

Uber under attack – how penetration testers turn bugs into breaches http://ift.tt/28QBnA7 Don’t-call-them-taxis firm Uber is used to being in the security news. From stolen credentials showing up on the dark web, through the controversy of raiding a reporter’s trip history because she was late for a meeting, to a leaky “lost and found” database,…

Hillary Clinton’s email was blocked, so the State Dept. turned off spam filters http://ift.tt/28WeKOK Email exchanges released on Wednesday by Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group, show that in December 2010, filters were blocking messages from then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff, sending them to the spam folder or making them…

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts http://ift.tt/2953xXX On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence (DTI) identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1, 2016,…

Tor coders harden the onion against surveillance http://ift.tt/28V5WXC A nonet of security researchers are on the warpath to protect the Tor Browser from interfering busybodies. Tor, short for The Onion Router, is a system that aims to help you be anonymous online by disguising where you are, and where you are heading. That way, nation-state…

Meet ‘URL’: the newest canine police recruit who sniffs out storage devices http://ift.tt/28TpOwg A 16-month old black labrador retriever who was rescued from the pound as a puppy is the latest police dog to start a highly specialized new job: sniffing out hidden electronic devices during police searches. His name: URL. Given that URL was…

MIRCOP Crypto-Ransomware Channels Guy Fawkes, Claims To Be The Victim Instead http://ift.tt/28RlRTf Ransomware behavior has been the talk of the town. We have seen oddly long ransom payment deadlines from GOOPIC, password stealing capabilities from RAA, chat support from the latest JIGSAW variant, and all these are just incidents discovered this June. But among these…

Watch Dogs 2: How Real Are The Hacks In Ubisoft’s Techno-Thriller? http://ift.tt/28Sqodr Four years ago, you might have laughed at the plot of Watch Dogs: a video game set in a present-day Chicago where the authorities eavesdrop on citizens to prevent crimes before they happen. Three years ago, you weren’t laughing. That’s when whistleblower Edward…

154 million voter records exposed, including gun ownership, Facebook profiles and more http://ift.tt/28ZZs8Q A database with 154 million US voter registration records has been leaking information on a dizzying array of intimate details, including gun ownership, Facebook profiles, address, age, position on gay marriage, ethnicity, email addresses and whether a voter is “pro-life.” MacKeeper security…

Has the Lizard Squad returned to ruin your day again? http://ift.tt/28QhdWq It seems that those annoying cyberyobs that call themselves the Lizard Squad might have struck again. Sigh! It looks like they’ve run a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Blizzard’s Battle.net servers, stopping players of the popular Overwatch game from – well –…