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There’s a war of words going on at the moment between veteran cybercrime reporter Brian Krebs and US bakery chain Panera Bread. Continue reading Panera Bread customer records exposed via leaky database – dough!
Gamer Tyler Barriss allegedly made the hoax emergency call, that ended with the death of an innocent man, over a $1.50 video game wager. Continue reading Man charged over fatal “Call of Duty” SWATting
If you’re going to get your kicks SWATting others, my recommendation is not to target investigative cybercrime blogger Brian Krebs.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Heads-up teenage hoodlums! Don’t SWAT Brian Krebs or else…
Things have not gone well for Krebs’ tormentors Continue reading Another thug learns that SWATting Brian Krebs is a bad idea
The Equifax data breach saga so far, a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords are all discussed. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, September 22, 2017
The persons or groups behind Twitter’s thousands of bot accounts have realized they can attack people without triggering Twitter’s protective security policies, presenting a rapidly evolving information security challenge for the social media network. Late last month, bot researchers at ProPublica and the Atlantic Council were attacked by a campaign of Twitter bots, which spammed the victim accounts with thousands of retweets and likes, causing Twitter to temporarily suspend certain accounts for unusually high activity. Ben Nimmo, Information Defense Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, was personally targeted by the bot campaign and live-tweeted his analysis of the attacks, which included impersonations of Atlantic Council user accounts that tweeted fake content, like a message alleging that Nimmo had died. “They certainly wanted to intimidate me by faking those accounts. That was about scaring me, rather than me getting blocked,” Nimmo told Cyberscoop. Nimmo noted that he was easily […]
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The latest twist sees the bot armies busily retweeting legitimate accounts in an attempt to get them banned for abuse – and it’s working. So why can’t Twitter do better? Continue reading Twitter struggles to deal with the sock-puppet and bot armies
The multibillion-dollar video game retailer GameStop.com is investigating a possible hack of credit card data. The data was then up for sale on a black market website. “GameStop recently received notification from a third party that it believed payment card data from cards used on the GameStop.com website was being offered for sale on a website,” the company said in a statement to CyberScoop. “That day a leading security firm was engaged to investigate these claims. GameStop has and will continue to work non-stop to address this report and take appropriate measures to eradicate any issue that may be identified.” Citing multiple anonymous sources in the financial industry, journalist Brian Krebs reported that the breach likely spanned five months from the middle of September 2016 to the first week of February 2017. The data being sold includes customer card number, expiration date, name, address and card verification value. GameStop did not respond to questions […]
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No word on when we’ll see the movie, but the plot points keep coming. Continue reading Thugs who sent Brian Krebs heroin and a SWAT team sentenced