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Serial Swatter And Stalker Mir Islam Arrested For Allegedly Dumping Body In RiverA 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks -- including a 2013 swatting incident at my home -- was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping a friend... |
Feds Charge Three In Mass Seizure Of Attack-for-hire ServicesAuthorities in the United States this week brought criminal hacking charges against three men as part of an unprecedented, international takedown targeting 15 different "booter" or "stresser" sites -- attack-for-hire services that helped... |
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For IE Zero DayMicrosoft today released an emergency software patch to plug a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already using to break into Windows computers. |
A Chief Security Concern For Executive TeamsVirtually all companies like to say they take their customers privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. But youd be forgiven if you couldnt tell this by studying the executive leadership page of each companys Web... |
Spammed Bomb Threat Hoax Demands BitcoinA new email extortion scam is making the rounds, threatening that someone has planted bombs within the recipients building that will be detonated unless a hefty bitcoin ransom is paid by the end of the business day. |
Scanning For Flaws, Scoring For SecurityIs it fair to judge an organizations information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and... |
Patch Tuesday, December 2018 EditionAdobe and Microsoft each released updates today to tackle critical security weaknesses in their software. Microsofts December patch batch is relatively light, addressing more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Windows and related applications.... |
How Internet Savvy Are Your Leaders?Back in April 2015, I tweeted about receiving a letter via snail mail suggesting the search engine rankings for a domain registered in my name would suffer if I didnt pay a bill for some kind of dubious-looking service Id never heard of.... |
Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 YearsThe alleged ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched debilitating denial-of-service attacks against Web sites (including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions) has been sentenced... |
A Breach, Or Just A Forced Password Reset?Software giant Citrix Systems recently forced a password reset for many users of its Sharefile content collaboration service, warning it would be doing this on a regular basis in response to password-guessing attacks that target people... |
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