Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:54:30 +0000
Criminals have found to their cost that reducing a device to a pile of rubble means nothing if the internal chips are still in working order.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DhhD2UVxfZU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:11:48 +0000
Twitter admitted it broke the rules when it handed over control of the student’s account to college administrators.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/THaPVg5m35Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Preston Gralla| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800
It’s no secret that hackers the world over target Windows vulnerabilities in order to wreak havoc, hold up data and networks for ransom, pull off money-making scams, and disrupt elections and the workings of democracy. They target Windows for a simple reason: volume. The operating system is on the vast majority of desktop and laptop computers worldwide.
Over the years, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has unwittingly helped hackers in some of the world’s most dangerous and notoriously successful attacks by developing tools to exploit Windows security holes, rather than alert Microsoft to those vulnerabilities. Some of the tools have been leaked to hackers and used in massive attacks, including the EternalBlue cyber-exploit, which was used in the WannaCry global ransomware attack that affected computers in more than 150 countries and is estimated to have caused billions of dollars in damage.
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:44:29 +0000
Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/a63Ljbmk14I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:00:50 +0000
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:54:31 +0000
Apple thinks it’s come up with a simple way to make SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) one-time codes less susceptible to phishing attacks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/EmuD8lIFjiU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:21:32 +0000
It put 19 internet-calling companies on notice that helping illegal robocalls is illegal. It has sued before, and it can do it again.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WgDkr2jGNg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:26:24 +0000
Scammers got away with a $3.1m BEC heist, art dealer and museum blame each other, and ownership of a valuable landscape is up in the air.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vWiUkpnODiM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:02:06 +0000
OpenSK is a piece of firmware that you can install on a USB dongle of your own, turning it into a usable FIDO or U2F key.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ku-9LnVkKCo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:17:12 +0000
Phishing email still remains one of the top malware propagation medium. Recently, we came across an interesting phishing email containing couple of Jumpshare links pointing to malicious components. Jumpshare is an online file sharing service and often cyber criminals abuse these kind of file sharing services. Upon clicking on one of the links in…
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