Collaborate Disseminate
A hacking gang posted 3.12 terabytes of VEVO’s internal files online, after it discovered the company was being reckless with its security.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Guess what happened after VEVO told its hackers to ‘f**k off’…
A company is offering up to one million dollars in bounties for anyone who finds and reports exploitable zero-day flaws in the Tor Browser.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Firm offers up to $1 million for Tor zero-day exploits – but who will they sell them to?
Researchers have discovered a new attack vector they’ve named “BlueBorne” that enables bad actors to compromise nearly every connected device via Bluetooth.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading BlueBorne threatens almost every connected device with Bluetooth-based attacks
David Bisson describes some of the ways you can protect yourself against identity thieves following the hack of Equifax.
Continue reading How to protect yourself in the wake of the Equifax data breach
Threat actors victimized more than 1.5 million computer users with cryptocurrency mining software in the first eight months of 2017. It’s perfect legal for users to install software on their computers that mines cryptocurrency. But miners are unique in that many of them come with the ability to achieve persistence on a system, to automatically […]… Read More
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Samsung has announced a new bug bounty program that offers rewards of up to $200,000 for qualifying vulnerability reports.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Earn up to $200K finding bugs in Samsung smartphones
A Russian computer computer has pleaded guilty to helping to perpetrate an ATM fraud scheme in hundreds of cities worldwide. On 8 September, Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 32, submitted a guilty plea in connection with a hacking attack that targeted RBS Worldpay, a payment processing company. The hack occurred back in November 2008 when Estonian national […]… Read More
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Three Equifax executives sold a combined $1.8 million worth of shares just days after the credit reporting agency discovered a massive data breach.
But before it was made public.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Three Equifax execs sold $1.8 million of stock days after breach discovery
A data breach might have exposed personal information belonging to 5,400 customers of the French life insurance agency AXA. The firm began sending out e-mails notifying affected customers of the incident on 7 September. AXA expects it will send out the last of these alerts by the end of the day on 8 September. As […]… Read More
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A young malware developer is using the same Skype ID for applying to jobs and advertising their Internet of Things (IoT) botnet.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Budding malware author uses same Skype ID across job applications and IoT botnet ads