Payment card processing giant TSYS suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month. Since then reams of data stolen from the company have been posted online, with the attackers promising...
Read morePatch Tuesday, Good Riddance 2020 Edition
December 8 2020Microsoft today issued its final batch of security updates for Windows PCs in 2020, ending the year with a relatively light patch load. Nine of the 58 security vulnerabilities...
Read moreIRS to Make ID Protection PIN Open to All
December 4 2020The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said this week that beginning in 2021 it will allow all taxpayers to apply for an identity protection personal identification number (IP PIN),...
Read moreAccount Hijacking Site OGUsers Hacked, Again
December 2 2020For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers -- a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts --...
Read moreBomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
December 1 2020A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching...
Read moreFraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world's largest...
Read moreConvicted SIM Swapper Gets 3 Years in Jail
November 20 2020A 21-year-old Irishman who pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims has been sentenced to just under three years in prison....
Read moreTrump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs
November 18 2020President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election...
Read moreBe Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications
November 17 2020An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve "notifications," browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user's mobile or desktop device. In many cases these notifications...
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