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Equifax, iOS 11, Zero-day, and DDos threats – Hack Naked News #142

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Tracking cars, iOS 11 patches eight vulnerabilities, Equifax dumps their CEO, High Sierra gets slammed with a Zero-day, and more. Jason Wood of Paladin Security discusses an email DDos threat on this episode of Hack Naked News! News Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online – In the leaked S3 buckets deparment: The Kromtech Security Center […]

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Equifax CEO retires after mega breach

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Equifax CEO Richard Smith will be stepping down from his position as chairman of the board and chief executive officer, the company announced Thursday. The change comes three weeks after the credit monitoring company revealed a data breach affecting up to 143 million U.S. residents. Data on names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers were stolen from the company’s databases. “Serving as CEO of Equifax has been an honor, and I’m indebted to the 10,000 Equifax employees who have dedicated their lives to making this a better company,” Smith said in a release.  “The cybersecurity incident has affected millions of consumers, and I have been completely dedicated to making this right.  At this critical juncture, I believe it is in the best interests of the company to have new leadership to move the company forward.” Current Equifax board member Mark Feidler will serve […]

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Equifax or Equiphish?

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More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit bureau Equifax has begun sending out email notifications to people who were able to take the company up on its offer. But in yet another security stumble, the company appears to be training recipients to fall for phishing scams. Continue reading Equifax or Equiphish?→

Equifax or Equiphish?

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More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit bureau Equifax has begun sending out email notifications to people who were able to take the company up on its offer. But in yet another security stumble, the company appears to be training recipients to fall for phishing scams. Continue reading Equifax or Equiphish?→

Experian Flaw Lets Attacker Obtain Credit Freeze PIN and Access Account

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By Waqas
Plenty of consumers decided to go for a credit freeze
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CyberGRX, Riverbed, YARA Rules, and Palantir – Enterprise Security Weekly #62

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CyberGRX and BitSight join forces, Java vs. JavaScript, YARA rules explained, Riverbed teases an application networking offering, and more enterprise security news! Enterprise News CyberGRX Partners With BitSight to Address Supply Chain Risks | SecurityWeek.Com Riverbed to tout application networking offering at GITEX Explained: YARA rules – Malwarebytes Labs Palantir’s IPO Plans are Just as […]

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Threatpost News Wrap, September 22, 2017

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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→

Equifax directed consumers to fake phishing site for weeks

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You can now add another blunder to the already long list of Equifax’s missteps in the wake of the massive breach it announced earlier this month: the company has been pointing affected customers to a fake phishing site. In a series of tweets pushed out over the last two weeks, the company sent them to securityequifax2017.com instead of equifaxsecurity2017.com, the address of the dedicated Web site the company set up to inform users of the … More → Continue reading Equifax directed consumers to fake phishing site for weeks→