The IRS warns us every year, that Tax Season brings an increase in the number of phishing attacks targeting the unwary, pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service. This year is no different and here is the advice offered by the IRS this year.
The Shadow Brokers—the mysterious person or group that over the past eight months has leaked a gigabyte worth of the National Security Agency’s weaponized software exploits—just published its most significant release yet. Friday’s dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.
Long time security blogger and journalist, Brian Krebs, is reporting that Shoney’s restaurants is rumored to be at the center of another card breach.
Microsoft’s security updates for April 2017 address more than 40 critical, important and moderate severity vulnerabilities, including three zero-day flaws that have been exploited in attacks.