All Aboard the Pequod!
January 7 2021Like countless others, I frittered away the better part of Jan. 6 doomscrolling and watching television coverage of the horrifying events unfolding in our nation's capital, where a mob...
Read moreHamas May Be Threat to 8chan, QAnon Online
January 5 2021In October 2020, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by DDoS-Guard, a dodgy Russian firm...
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 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...
Read moreWhy Paying to Delete Stolen Data is Bonkers
November 4 2020Companies hit by ransomware often face a dual threat: Even if they avoid paying the ransom and can restore things from scratch, about half the time the attackers also...
Read moreGoogle Mending Another Crack in Widevine
October 26 2020For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like...
Read moreThe Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
October 22 2020Some of the world's largest Internet firms have taken steps to crack down on disinformation spread by QAnon conspiracy theorists and the hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan. But according...
Read moreQAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline
October 19 2020A phone call to an Internet provider in Oregon on Sunday evening was all it took to briefly sideline multiple websites related to 8chan/8kun -- a controversial online image...
Read moreThere's an old adage in information security: "Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure." Many organizations that do hire professionals to test...
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