Collaborate Disseminate
Booking.com got hacked five years ago, and didn’t tell its customers… but now we know who might have been behind it. Bossware rears its ugly head again in the workplace, spying on employees. And did you receive a warning email from the FBI?
All th… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #252: Hotel hacks, workplace spies, and the FBI
Emotet is back – a number of researchers have confirmed. About Emotet Emotet is a modular banking trojan that also functions as a downloader of other trojans and malware/ransomware. In January 2021, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldw… Continue reading Emotet stages a comeback via Trickbot and spam
Fake warnings and false accusations – it’s a “call to distraction” Continue reading DHS warning about hackers in your network? Don’t panic!
I run a newsletter for my small business. It has been running for over a decade. Last week, I found out that one or several spambots have been signing up to it for the last 2 years (to the tune of over 3,000 "subscribers", or 8.5… Continue reading Why spam a newsletter signup form?
There is a lot of malspam with some *.sharepoint.com urls.
Typically there MS Office files or other malicious files attached.
What’s the best practice to handle this sort of threat?
Whitelisting the legit SharePoint domains? What if a part… Continue reading How to deal with phishing from SharePoint URLs?
Lets say we have this SPF record
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.onprem.com -all`
And this record
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.onprem.com ?all
What would be the difference ?
Would record1 ac… Continue reading SPF records and spoofing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Under Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the Federal Communications Commission is seeking to create new rules targeting spam text messages. Like another recent proposed rulemaking from the agency, … Continue reading New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts
I have the following SPF record:
v=spf1 include:_spf.mailspamprotection.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:209.85.220.0/24 ~all
Although I have included _spf.mailspamprotection.com in my SPF record, which includes ip4:146.66.121.0/24, I get … Continue reading Unknown Cause of SPF Fail
Why is one of cyber crime’s oldest threats still going strong? The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reports that January 2021 marked an unprecedented high in the APWG’s records, with over 245,771 phishing attacks in one month. IBM X-Force’s 2021 Threat Intelligence Index found that phishing led to 33% of cyber attacks organizations had to deal […]
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The issue is someone was spamming the site with malicious comments. The article says "He utilizes SQL Injection to bypass our spam filters." And the site owner said he was spending most of time just trying to remove the… Continue reading How would you begin to address the issue of comment spammers? [closed]