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32 Million Twitter Account Usernames + Password For Sale
According to multiple sources, there is a list of 32 Million Twitter username + passwords for sale on the dark web. This happened despite twitter stating that they have NOT had a breach. It's quite unlikely that all of the passwords listed in the database for sale...
Where’s the Breach? At Wendys!
Back in January, it was reported that Wendy's Restaurants was investigating a possible breach. They made a statement that point of sale malware was found in 'about 5% of restaurants'. That number just got a lot larger! While the final count of infected restaurants is...
Security Humor: and now for something completely different – part 1
Some days you just have to take a minute to breathe... Tech Toons by: John Klossner If you have worked in IT Security for any length of time, you're going to be familiar with the old chestnut that "We'd be very secure if it weren't for the users!" That might well be...
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CiCi’s Restaurants Appears to be Next Data Breach Victim
According to Krebs On Security, Cici's restaurants appears to be the latest victim of the POS data breach trend. Over the past two months, KrebsOnSecurity has received inquiries from fraud fighters at more than a half-dozen financial institutions in the United States...
Nearly all phishing emails now contain ransomware
As many as 93% of all phishing emails now contain ransomware, according to a new report by PhishMe. The figure would represent a staggering rise, as the same report notes that ransomware was found in just 56% of phishing emails as recently as December 2015, and less...
65 million Tumblr passwords stolen and up for sale
On 12 May, Tumblr revealed that it had just discovered a 2013 breach of user email addresses and passwords. Details were sparse, and the company reportedly refused to put a number on the affected accounts. Now, we know: the dataset included more than 65 million...
myspace breach is the largest in history
Today we bring you news of a breach which is so massive in size, it is quite probably, the largest breach in history. This particular breach is from MySpace, and the number of passwords claimed to be included is an eye-popping 427 million. Apparently, there are only...
Microsoft bans common password from breached list
Microsoft if battling weak passwords by banning those most commonly used passwords - as found in lists of breached user accounts: Azure Active Directory's 10 million or so users will no longer be able to select a password that's appeared too many times on breach...
How to Prevent Ransomware
The worst kind of malware at the moment are the ransomware variants - Kryptolocker, Locky, Teslacrypt etc. - an infection from this type of malware will leave you with your files locked up and a demand for money on your computer screen. That's a bad day happening...
ESET releases new decryptor for TeslaCrypt ransomware
Have you been infected by one of the new variants (v3 or v4) of the notorious ransomware TeslaCrypt? If your encrypted files had the extensions .xxx, .ttt, .micro, .mp3 or were left unchanged, then ESET has good news for you: we have a decryptor for TeslaCrypt. We...
ESET releases new decryptor for TeslaCrypt ransomware
Have you been infected by one of the new variants (v3 or v4) of the notorious TeslaCrypt ransomware? If your encrypted files had the extensions .xxx, .ttt, .micro, .mp3 or were left unchanged, then ESET has good news for you: they have a decryptor for TeslaCrypt. They...
Noodles & Company investigates possible card breach
Popular restaurant chain Noodles & Company is reportedly investigating a possible credit card breach. Asked to comment on the reports, Broomfield, Colo.-based Noodles & Company issued the following statement: “We are currently investigating some unusual activity...
Jigsaw ransomware 2.0: A fake or work in progress?
By Ondrej Kubovič Just recently we reported on various ransomware types that failed in their malicious intentions. Some were cracked by security experts due to poor implementation, while others flopped because the decryption key had been ‘left’ on the victims’...
Locky Ransomware Server Hacked (AGAIN)
Today f-secure is reporting that another locky payload server has been hacked. The malicious payload has been replaced with an image that warns not to click on email attachments - although the hacker uses the term 'emails attachment' - so perhaps their first language...
Privacy and security fears – predictably – impact US online commerce
By Stephen Cobb Security professionals gave a large collective sigh of sadness this past weekend when BoingBoing published this headline by Cory Doctorow: “Half of Americans reluctant to shop online due to privacy & security fears.” Sarcastic remarks like “No...
SWIFT finds evidence of second malware attack
The Swift global financial messaging network, which is used by banks to move billions of dollars daily has reported that another malicious attack on a bank has attempted to make us of their messaging system to potentially steal millions. The announcement by Swift...
Enough already – UNINSTALL Adobe Flash NOW!!
By Graham Cluley If you’re running Adobe Flash on your Windows, Mac, Linux or Chrome OS computer you’re potentially at risk. Adobe has issued a security advisory, warning of an as-yet unpatched critical security hole in its popular Flash player software that is...
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