Collaborate Disseminate
A US court has sentenced the creator of a notorious service that helped malware authors avoid detection by anti-virus software to 14 years in prison. Ruslans Bondars, a 37-year-old Latvian citizen, was convicted earlier this year of conspiracy to viola… Continue reading 14 years prison for man who helped hackers evade detection by anti-virus software
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Amazon staff are being bribed to delete negative reviews and leak data, deepfakes are getting more dangerous, an update on John McAfee’s bitcoin bet, and our guest gets a shock…
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning … Continue reading Smashing Security #096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes
Hundreds of thousands of security cameras are believed to be vulnerable to a zero-day vulnerability that could allow hackers to spy on feeds and even tamper with video surveillance recordings.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading ‘Peekaboo’ zero-day lets hackers view and alter surveillance camera footage
Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet in October 2016 have been sentenced to five years of probation.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading The makers of the Mirai IoT-hijacking botnet are sentenced
Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet in October 2016 have been sentenced to five years of probation.
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The post The m… Continue reading The makers of the Mirai IoT-hijacking botnet are sentenced
If you were to make a list of the most common causes of security breaches, it is phishing attacks that would surely dominate.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Your business should be more afraid of phishing than malware
The headlines love to talk about sophisticated hacking gangs, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to break their way into businesses and steal corporate data.
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The US Department of State has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach which exposed the personally identifiable information of some employees.
Continue reading US Dept of State says attack on email system exposed employees’ personal data
During the last few months, many of us will have received emails that try to extract a ransom via an anonymous cryptocurrency.
But as email blackmailers make big winnings, others are trying to cash in on the craze.
Continue reading Another wave of sextortion emails