Fake FBI mail: “Send us $112 or we’ll lock your iCloud account”
Here’s a scam mail which claims your iCloud has been accessed without permission, and will be locked within 2 hours if you don’t verify the account by sending $112 to a Bitcoin address. The missive claims to be from [email protected] and is titled, “Virus Warning: E-Mail from ‘FBI Alert”.
This What Hackers Think of Your Defenses
Billions of dollars are spent every year on cyber security products; and yet those products continually fail to protect businesses. Thousands of reports analyze breaches and provide reams of data on what happened; but still the picture worsens. A new study takes a different approach; instead of trying to prevent hacking based on what hacking…
Why We Need To Reinvent How We Catalogue Malware
One obvious trend: crimeware technologies that come with simple user consoles and functionality to create unique binaries at the click of a button. To understand how the bad guys have become so adept at producing the flood of uniquely hashed malware, we need to look at what our adversaries have been doing the past few…
Former Sysadmin Sentenced to Prison for Hacking Industrial Facility
A man has been sentenced to 34 months in prison and three years of supervised release for hacking into the systems of pulp and paper company Georgia-Pacific, the Department of Justice announced on Friday. Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of paper products. The company has more than…
Bug Allowed Theft of Over $400,000 in Zcoins
An implementation bug has allowed someone to make a profit of more than $400,000 after creating roughly 370,000 units of the Zcoin cryptocurrency, users were told on Friday. Zcoin (XZC), worth approximately $2 per unit, is an implementation of the Zerocoin protocol, which aims to provide fully anonymous currency transactions. Zerocoin has also been used…
Yahoo Explains Cookie Forgery Related To Two 2016 Breaches
Yahoo’s recent update on forged cookies is in relation to two, not three, security breaches announced last year. Yahoo has provided further clarification on the cookie forging activity related to data breaches disclosed in September and December of last year.
Explained: Bayesian spam filtering
Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayes rule, a statistical theorem that gives you the probability of an event. In Bayesian filtering it is used to give you the probability that a certain email is spam. Named after the statistician Rev. Thomas Bayes who provided an equation that basically allows new information to update the…
The Era Of Data-Jacking Is Here. Are You Ready?
As data in the cloud becomes more valuable, the cost of weak security will soon be higher than many organizations can bear. Here’s why. The past few months have seen a deluge of attacks on database deployments in production environments. Victor Gevers, an ethical hacker and founder of GDI Foundation, broke news about attacks on…
Android for cars: Secure connection?
Fast-forward 17 years and there are apps for everything — even your car. Chances are, if an app might make part of your life easier, someone will develop it and plenty of people will use it. Over the past few years, the concept of the connected car has continued to evolve — and become reality….
Doubts abound over US action on cybersecurity
How should the U.S. respond to cyber attacks? That’s been a major question at this year’s RSA security conference, following Russia’s suspected attempt to influence last year’s election. Clearly, the government should be doing more on cybersecurity, said U.S. lawmakers and officials at the show, but they admit that politics and policy conflicts have hampered the…