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Last night, news broke that Robin Williams was found dead in his home in Marin County, CA. It is suspected that it was either a suicide or an overdose. This is a celebrity death that the ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 32
Since September 2013, ransomware has become vicious and has inspired several copycats. At the time of this writing, summer 2014, the very first strains of second-generation ransomware ...
Researchers at FireEye and Fox-IT have managed to obtain the private encryption keys that the malware uses to lock files.
I was at Black Hat 2014, and Kevin Mitnick was also at at the show. He signed 700 books in a 3-hour span, whew! Here is the line that ran all the way back to the show floor. I took this ...
Are the credentials of one of your users among the stash of the 1.2 billion stolen passwords? A small Internet security company will tell you for just a 120 bucks per year. Their ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 31
When your products get targeted with custom made ransomware, you know you've got it made. We're talking about NAS (network-attached storage) built by Synology in Taiwan. the malware has ...
This is a (very) short sci-fi story that looks at the cyber security risks of hooking up household appliances to the Internet. Warning - this is one grumpy man.
ComputerWorld in Australia reported on a very nice success where security awareness training prevented a major ransomware infection. They started out with: "People like to ask the ...
Joxean Koret, a security researcher from the Singapore-based Coseinc, using a "fuzzer" tool he built himself, found numerous remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in multiple antivirus ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 30
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Last week, Fedor Sinitisyn, blogger and security researcher for Kaspersky posted something worrisome. He reported that the Angler Exploit Kit was delivering a new second-generation type ...
Dell has its own news site called Tech Page One. A few days ago they had a new article that started with: "Human errors that aid social engineers. The weakest links in computer networks ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 29
Almost 300 people get shot out of the air and the only thing cyber-criminals can think of is how to exploit the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting.
Unscrupulous eastern European cyber mafias are preying on U.S. workers that try to make ends meet and look for a second (or third) job. This is not a new scam, but it is sticking up its ...
Tyler Moffitt, Threat Team Member at Webroot wrote:
