Hacked Real Estate Firm Can't Claw Back $580,000 From Bank That Completed Transfer
blog.knowbe4.com - Max Mitchell at Law.com has an interesting and rather painful story. Don't let this happen to your organization.
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Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS - Slashdot
it.slashdot.org - A hacker going by the name AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked ProtonMail and stolen "significant" amounts of data. They have posted a ransom demand to an anonymous Pastebin but it reads like a prank, as it states that the alleged hackers have access to underwater drone activity and treaty ...
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Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - At the OpenStack Summit in Berlin last week, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth said in a keynote that Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS) support lifespan would be extended from five years to 10 years. "I'm delighted to announce that Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for a full 10 years," said...
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Alphabet Unit Halts Glucose-Detecting Contact Lens Project - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report from Reuters: Alphabet's life sciences division Verily said on Friday that it was putting on hold one of its oldest and highest-profile projects, a smart contact lens designed to help monitor sugar levels. The project, started in 2014, aimed to help diabetics b...
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New variant of APT28 Lojax rootkit discovered
ehackingnews.com - Hackers know a prime target when they spot one. Unfortunately, small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) are often those prime targets. A lot of small business owners like to think that malicious attackers don’t have anything to gain by going after “the little guy,” or that they don’t have much to lose....
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Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - theodp writes: Developers! Developers! Developers! To make good on the proposal that snagged it a share of the Amazon HQ2 prize, the State of Virginia is also apparently on the hook for doubling the annual number of graduates with computer science or closely related degrees, with a goal to add 2...
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In Yakutsk, cyber criminals stole 316,000$ from the local ATMs
ehackingnews.com - In Yakutsk the cyber criminals were able to steal more than $316,000 from local ATMs. As it turned out, the attackers used Malware. A criminal case was opened against two men. Investigators found that hackers are brothers, unemployed and originally from Moscow. Using malicious programs, brothers...
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BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: BlackBerry on Friday announced that it has agreed to acquire endpoint security firm Cylance for $1.4 billion in cash. "We plan on immediately expanding the capabilities across BlackBerry's 'chip-to-edge' portfolio, including QNX, our safety-certified ...
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Cybercriminals disturbing air traffic
ehackingnews.com - Travelling via air has always been the most preferred and fastest option available to us at any given time but have we ever given a thought whether it is the safest in every context technical and cyber? Never mind the technical mishaps that happen when least expected the accidents that occur a...
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KnowBe4 Modstore Release: Captain Awareness Has Arrived And Is Here To Help
blog.knowbe4.com - The KnowBe4 Courseware Team is excited to announce the release of the first 6 episodes in a new comic book style animated series: Captain Awareness. These first two-minute modules cover topics such as: GDPR, Triumph Over the Reuse of Passwords, Securing Mobile Devices, Being a Human Firewall, S...
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Report: Charges Against Assange Relate To Russian Hacking
arstechnica.com - Enlarge / Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy Of Ecuador on May 19, 2017 in London, England.Jack Taylor/Getty Images The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has asked a federal court to unseal documents related to the federal government's pending prosecuti...
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Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - "The Register reports that Microsoft has been accused of breaking EU's GDPR law by harvesting information through Office 365 and sending it to U.S. servers," writes Slashdot reader Hymer. "The discovery was made by the Dutch government." From the report: The dossier's authors found that the Wind...
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86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg signed by 86 organizations and published on Tuesday implores Facebook to provide a clear, fast mechanism that allows users to appeal instances of content takedowns and account deactivations. The letter which w...
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Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets - Slashdot
it.slashdot.org - secwatcher shares a report from Threatpost: A design flaw affecting all in-display fingerprint sensors -- that left over a half-dozen cellphone models vulnerable to a trivial lock-screen bypass attack -- has been quietly patched. The flaw was tied to a bug in the popular in-display fingerprint re...
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Week in security with Tony Anscombe
welivesecurity.com - Attackers exploit flaw in GDPR-themed WordPress plugin to hijack websites. The campaign’s goals aren’t immediately clear, as the malefactors don’t appear to be leveraging the hijacked websites for further nefarious purposes. Google’s data charts path to avoiding malware on Android. Plus security ...
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NASA Decommissions the Kepler Space Telescope - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - Late last month, NASA announced that it would be retiring the Kepler space telescope after nearly ten years of service -- double its initial mission life. Now, as Space.com reports, the planet-hunting telescope has been officially decommissioned, "beaming 'goodnight' commands to the sun-orbiting ...
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Q&A: Security Advocate Erich Kron on How to Protect Against Sophisticated Phishing Scams (EdTech Magazine) - Audio Visual News Network
avnetwork.com - "Malicious cyberattackers are constantly looking to update their tactics to find weaknesses in higher education cybersecurity practices. According to cybersecurity company KnowBe4, hackers have begun to impersonate senior administrative officials as a new phishing tactic against faculty, staff an...
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There Is No Link Between Insomnia and Early Death, Study Finds - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - A new report published in the journal Science Direct says there is no link between insomnia and early death. The researchers reportedly "reviewed 17 studies, which covered close to 37 million people, to compile their results," the BBC notes. From the report: This new report goes against what the...
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UK: Hackers, 21 and 23, admit breaking into TalkTalk’s website in a huge data breach that cost the telecoms firm £77m in lost business
databreaches.net - Related Posts:Two ‘computer hackers’ accused of breaking into…UK: Two plead guilty to 2015 TalkTalk data breachUpdate: TalkTalk Hacked: 4M Customer...
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A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call - Slashdot
mobile.slashdot.org - Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey and South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune have introduced a bill on Friday that aims to ramp up the penalties on illegal robocalls and stop scammers from sending them. Gizmodo reports: The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrenc...
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Mid-Range Google 'Pixel 3 Lite' Leaks With Snapdragon 670, Headphone Jack - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - The first alleged images of the rumored "budget" Pixel 3 have been leaked. The Pixel 3 Lite, as it is being called, looks very similar to the Pixel 3, although it features a plastic build construction, slower processor, and a headphone jack. 9to5Google reports: Just like the standard Pixel 3, th...
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Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says - Slashdot
games.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is planning to release a disc-free version of the Xbox One as early as next spring, according to an unsourced report from author Brad Sams of Thurrott.com (who has been reliable with early Xbox-related information in the past). The ...
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MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack' - Slashdot
it.slashdot.org - The location-tracking "MiSafe" smartwatch may not be as safe as the name proclaims. According to security researchers from Pen Test Partners, the watches are easy to hack as they do not encrypt the data they use or secure each child's account. The researchers found that they could track children'...
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Students targeted in 'biggest-ever' phishing scam - Birmingham Live
birminghammail.co.uk - The biggest ever scam attack on students has been launched by crooks targeting undergraduates with fake tax refund emails. The alarm was raised by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs after thousands of fraud attempts were recorded in the space of just a few weeks. They were sent refund offers u...
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Russian APT comes back to life with new US spear-phishing campaign - ZDNet
zdnet.com - A Russian state-sponsored cyber-espionage group has come back to life after a one-year period of inactivity with a relative large spear-phishing campaign that has targeted both the US government and private sector. The hacking group is known in infosec circles as Cozy Bear, APT29, The Dukes, or...
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Japan’s Cybersecurity Minister Admits He’s ‘Never Used A Computer’
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Japan’s new cybersecurity minister has ‘never used a computer’–claiming to have delegated to staff and secretaries since he was 25. This is especially interesting because his duties include overseeing cyber-defense preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. In addition, Sakurada allegedly ...
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Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - Diane Greene, whose pursuit of Pentagon contracts for artificial intelligence technology sparked a worker uprising at Google, is stepping down as chief executive of the company's cloud computing business (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). "Ms. Greene said she would stay on as...
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Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: U.S. President Donald Trump signed today a bill into law, approving the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The bill, known as the CISA Act, reorganizes and rebrands the National Protection and Programs Directora...
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Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs - Slashdot
linux.slashdot.org - Freshly Exhumed writes: An intentional kernel change in Linux kernel 4.20 for enhanced Spectre mitigation is unfortunately causing Intel Linux performance to be much slower than with 4.19. That change is 'STIBP' (Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors), which allows for preventing cross-hyperth...
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Cryptocurrency Trader Gets 15 Months of Jail for Stealing Bitcoin, Litecoin
news.softpedia.com - U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood sentenced Joseph Kim from Phoenix, Arizona, to 15 months behind bars for wire fraud in the first Chicago criminal prosecution related to cryptocurrency. Kim faced charges at the beginning of 2018 when federal prosecution registered the first criminal case invol...