Party Like a Russian, Carder’s Edition
If you had any doubts about the professionalism of online fraudsters…: “It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation To alleviate the cash from a whole entire […]
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FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services
“Beware Greeks cyber security companies bearing gifts” seems to be the thrust of Brian’s article….: The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today political campaigns can accept discounted cybersecurity services […]
Patch Tuesday Lowdown, July 2019 Edition
It seems that I’ve only just updated my Windows instances (mostly VMs) with the 1903 update. Here we go again. Details and compelling arguments to update now from Brian Krebs…: […]
Collections Firm Behind LabCorp, Quest Breaches Files for Bankruptcy
Being breached can be an existential crisis for your company if you don’t have the right mitigation, including insurance, in place…: A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month […]
Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?
I’ve fallen foul of this a couple of times, and I’m on the paranoid side of email users. This would be a demotivator for me…: Would your average Internet user […]
A Tough Week for IP Address Scammers
I’ve worked in a business where we had our own “class A” (57.0.0.0/8 for the curious) so this article bought out my nostalgic side…: In the early days of the […]
Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003
Still on XP? Really?…: Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003, citing the […]
What’s Behind the Wolters Kluwer Tax Outage?
It’s relatively trivial to set up a process that reviews access to online filestores for your organisation (assuming you know where they are) whether on Dropbox, AWS…or your own online […]
Who’s Behind the RevCode WebMonitor RAT?
As usual, Brian gives us the details on the murky world of cyber criminals…: The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands […]
Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro
Odds-on that your data is in Wipro’s servers somewhere…: Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. [NYSE:WIT] is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked […]