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Patch Tuesday, November 2018 EditionMicrosoft on Tuesday released 16 software updates to fix more than 60 security holes in various flavors of Windows and other Microsoft products. Adobes also got security patches available for Flash, Acrobat and Adobe Reader users. |
That Domain You Forgot To Renew? Yeah, It’s Now Stealing Credit CardsIf you own a domain name that gets decent traffic and you fail to pay its annual renewal fee, chances are this mistake will be costly for you and for others. Lately, neglected domains have been getting scooped up by crooks who use them... |
Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing ServiceA Connecticut man whos earned "bug bounty" rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their Web sites secretly operated a service that leveraged these same flaws to sell their customers... |
U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning ServiceA year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that "Informed Delivery," a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by identity thieves and other fraudsters... |
Busting SIM Swappers And SIM Swap MythsKrebsOnSecurity recently had a chance to interview members of the REACT Task Force, a team of law enforcement officers and prosecutors based in Santa Clara, Calif. that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized "SIM swaps"... |
Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that... |
SMS Phishing + Cardless ATM = ProfitThieves are combining SMS-based phishing attacks with new "cardless" ATMs to rapidly convert phished bank account credentials into cash. Recent arrests in Ohio shed light on how this scam works. |
Equifax Has Chosen Experian. Wait, What?A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen to extend the offer by turning to a credit... |
Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M In Fines For Rutgers AttacksThe convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai... |
How Do You Fight A $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer At A TimeThe fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. Combating... |
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