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I recently received emails from my Origin account that my email address and security question had been changed (seems to have been someone in Russia since the new security question was in Russian). This was not my doing so I … Continue reading What steps should I take now that my online gaming account was compromised?
It won’t necessarily translate into big trouble for Uber. But it might: after all, the FTC’s interest recently cost the company $20m. Continue reading Uber in the privacy spotlight again
A spate of apparent security breaches has intensified what was already a tense geopolitical situation among the Persian Gulf states. Over the last two weeks, the following incidents have allegedly occurred: a Qatari government media outlet was supposedly hacked to plant bogus quotes attributed to current Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim; damaging emails belonging to UAE’s ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al-Otaiba were leaked, and someone hacked the Twitter account of Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa to post propaganda associated with a Shiite militant group. Evidence is lacking for some of those claims, and the degree to which the events are related is not clear, but hackers are taking the blame, and the allegations alone have been enough to amplify tensions. All three storylines have been prominent in regional press outlets and are now being used as supporting evidence for the breakdown of relations between Qatar and the other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations. […]
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A proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use hacking tools on the dark web is causing an increasing number of U.S. teenagers to commit computer crimes, according to FBI and Justice Department officials. Government lawyers are seeing such a noticeable spike in adolescent cases that reminds some of the late 1990s, when the term “script kiddies” was first coined. “When I first joined the computer crime prosecution business, you would have these grey haired lawyers who would talk about the 80s and 90s, when they were prosecuting like 13- and 16-year-olds but that [had] really dropped off,” said Josh Goldfoot, deputy chief of the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. “The 16-year-olds are coming back as a threat because it’s so easy now on the other side to acquire this type of stuff.” Adolescent hackers are once again becoming common, Goldfoot expounded, because of greater accessibility to exploit kits online and more […]
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First evidence linking Vault 7 tools to known cyberattacks.Read More Continue reading Longhorn: Tools used by cyberespionage group linked to Vault 7
Fake emulators for newly released Nintendo console used as bait to get users to fill out survey scams and download potentially unwanted applications.Read More Continue reading Free Nintendo Switch emulators are fake
Recent attacks involving the destructive malware Shamoon appear to be part of a much wider campaign in the Middle East and beyond.Read More Continue reading Shamoon: Multi-staged destructive attacks limited to specific targets
Recent attacks involving the destructive malware Shamoon appear to be part of a much wider campaign in the Middle East and beyond.Read More Continue reading Shamoon: Multi-staged destructive attacks limited to specific targets
Greenbug may answer the question of how Shamoon obtains the stolen credentials needed to carry out its disk-wiping attacks.Read More Continue reading Greenbug cyberespionage group targeting Middle East, possible links to Shamoon
Greenbug may answer the question of how Shamoon obtains the stolen credentials needed to carry out its disk-wiping attacks.Read More Continue reading Greenbug cyberespionage group targeting Middle East, possible links to Shamoon