FBI Outlines Technique Behind DDoS Attacks on US Voter Registration Website

Hackers who unleashed DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on a state-level voter registration and voter information website in the US used a technique called Pseudo Random Subdomain Attack (PRSD,) which is a form of attack that uses DN… Continue reading FBI Outlines Technique Behind DDoS Attacks on US Voter Registration Website

YouTube Takes New Measures to Combat Disinformation Ahead of US Elections

YouTube says it is making changes to its platform in advance of the 2020 United States elections in an effort to curb the spread of false information about candidates or the election process. Checking content uploaded to YouTube for such a specific pur… Continue reading YouTube Takes New Measures to Combat Disinformation Ahead of US Elections

YouTube Takes New Measures to Combat Disinformation Ahead of US Elections

YouTube says it is making changes to its platform in advance of the 2020 United States elections in an effort to curb the spread of false information about candidates or the election process. Checking content uploaded to YouTube for such a specific pur… Continue reading YouTube Takes New Measures to Combat Disinformation Ahead of US Elections

Twitter Discovers Attackers Trying to Match Usernames and Phone Numbers

Attackers likely sponsored by a nation state used an extensive network of Twitter accounts to match phone numbers to usernames by abusing an existing API and going well beyond its intended use, the social network has said. A Twitter feature allows new … Continue reading Twitter Discovers Attackers Trying to Match Usernames and Phone Numbers

Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

Emotet operators are looking to pray on people’s fears to spread malware through malicious emails. In this case, they are using the real health crisis of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Using people’s fears to spread malware is not new, … Continue reading Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

Emotet operators are looking to pray on people’s fears to spread malware through malicious emails. In this case, they are using the real health crisis of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Using people’s fears to spread malware is not new, … Continue reading Emotet Operators Are Using Wuhan Virus Info to Spread Malware

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Moderator Faces up to 20 Years in Prison

Dark web marketplace moderator Bryan Connor Herrell pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to engage in a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization. While the infamous Silk Road made a lot more headlines, another dark web market place had ma… Continue reading AlphaBay Dark Web Market Moderator Faces up to 20 Years in Prison

Windows 7 Gets New Final Update to Fix the Previous Final Update

It turns out that the final day of Windows 7 was not actually the last, as Microsoft messed up an update. Now, a new patch is required to fix a problem introduced by mistake. The official end of life for Windows was January 14, 2020. Microsoft said tha… Continue reading Windows 7 Gets New Final Update to Fix the Previous Final Update