Tag: Brian Krebs
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Hackers are using fake ’emergency’ requests to obtain customer data
In a disturbing new trend, cybercriminals have been found to be sending fake “emergency data requests” to obtain customer data from …
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Hackers are using fake requests to obtain customer data
In a disturbing new trend, cybercriminals have been found to be sending fake “emergency data requests” to obtain customer data from …
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The SolarWinds breach was bad. Not learning from it could be far worse
If companies are prepared to believe that the impact of the massive SolarWinds breach is past us, cybersecurity analyst Brian Krebs has a …
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Crime agency turns to Google ads to deter teen DDoS hackers
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit on what looks like a simple way to stop impressionable teens from being sucked into …
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Alleged Hacker Behind Massive ‘Collection 1’ Data Dump Arrested
A hacker accused of selling hundreds of millions of stolen credentials from last year’s “Collection 1” data dump on the dark web has …
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4iQ builds a business around identity intelligence in cyberattack security
When security researcher Brian Krebs recently broke the news that a large number of French critical infrastructure firms had been hacked, …
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Hacker Scheme Threatens AdSense Customers with Account Suspension
A new e-mail based extortion attack threatens users of Google’s AdSense banner-ad program with creating online behavior that will warrant …
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Instagram CEO’s homes were targetted by SWATters
The US has no central system for recording SWATting attacks, but there is growing evidence the problem is going from bad to worse. …
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Cybersecurity firm founder pleads guilty to organizing a DDoS attack
The founder and previous owner of a cybersecurity firm has confessed in court to hiring hackers to carry out a distributed …
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As cloud security improves, a weak link emerges: people
Last summer Capital One Financial Corp. was the victim of a massive data breach encompassing more than 100 million credit card applications …
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Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site
Hackers have hacked BriansClub, one of the biggest black market sites trafficking in stolen credit card data, whisking away the data of …
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Insurance firm First American Financial exposes 885M customer records
A security flaw in the website of First American Financial Corp., a Fortune 500 real estate title insurance firm, has exposed over 885 …
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