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What is a Botnet?

Oct 26, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits

Perhaps you’re wondering – What is a botnet? Friday’s massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on major providers of the internet backbone caused massive interruptions for millions of users and prevented access to dozens of popular...

Webcam firm recalls hackable devices after mighty Mirai botnet attack

Oct 25, 2016 | Malware and Exploits

Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.

Patch now! Recent iOS vulnerability affects Macs too

Sep 2, 2016 | General Security, Malware and Exploits

A week ago, Apple pushed out a small but critical security patch for iOS. That update was iOS 9.3.5, and it fixed a trifecta of previously unknown vulnerabilities that had allegedly been combined to produce a megaexploit. (If you have an iDevice, go to Settings |...

More Hotel Data Breaches And Credit Cards Left Online Without Security

Aug 30, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security, Malware and Exploits

Today we learned that two separate hotel chains are warning their customers that they have suffered point-of-sale malware infections that compromised customers’ payment card data. Both chains say they were alerted to related card fraud by the U.S. Secret Service...

Apple iOS 9.3.5 Is Available: This is why you need to update NOW.

Aug 25, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits

Today Apple released iOS 9.3.5, an essential update for all iOS devices, meaning iPhones, iPads and iPods. Apple didn’t add any new features as part of this software update, but instead fixed at least one, possibly 3 major security vulnerabilities have been...

Eddie Bauer Hack: Malware Infects Every Eddie Bauer Stores in U.S. and Canada

Aug 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits

On July 5, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to Bellevue, Wash., based Eddie Bauer after hearing from several sources who work in fighting fraud at U.S. financial institutions. All of those sources said they’d identified a pattern of fraud on customer cards that had...