The biggest hack in history is actually three times bigger than we feared
Yahoo’s 2013 data breach didn’t see one billion account records stolen by hackers after all. No, it was *three* billion…
Yahoo’s 2013 data breach didn’t see one billion account records stolen by hackers after all. No, it was *three* billion…
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Is Your Password Manager's Promise of “Military-Grade” Security Actually True?
Wccftech Security experts from TeamSIK of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Germany, have analyzed nine Android password managers, revealing that each of them had at least one low, medium or high severity vulnerability. “Applications … |
The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble a massive IoT botnet, according to research by Flashpoint.
“Flashpoint assesses with moderate confidence that the most recent Mirai attacks are likely connected to the English-language hacking forum community, specifically uses and reads of the forum “hackforums.net,” according to a blog by Allison Nixon, director of security research at Flashpoint.
She says the company has discovered the infrastructure used in the Dyn attack also targeted “a well-known video game company” that she doesn’t name. A post on hackforums.net seems to agree with this possibility. It indicates the target was PlayStation Network and that Dyn was hit because it provides DNS services to PSN. Going after the name servers (NS) that provide lookups for PSN would prevent traffic from reaching PSN.
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Tinder users beware. The popular dating app generally doesn’t verify most user accounts, but that hasn’t stopped spammers from pretending to offer the service.
In recent weeks, automated bots masquerading as Tinder profiles have been telling real users to get “verified,” as part of a clever scam to sell them porn, security firm Symantec said on Thursday.
The spam bots first send off flirty messages, like “Wanna eat cookie dough together some time?” only to then ask whether Tinder has verified the user.
It’s a free service, the spam bot will claim, and done “to verify the person you wanna meet isn’t a serial killer lol.”
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