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How to prevent fork bombs on your Linux development servers
on March 28, 2023, 12:13 PM EDT How to prevent fork bombs on your Linux development servers Learn how to protect your Linux server from the...
German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. FlyHosting...
UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching...
Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware
Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the software. The move comes just...
Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider
A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of...
Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2023 Edition
Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to quash at least 74 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and software. Two of those flaws are already being...
Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal
Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases....
Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to...
Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations
The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The...
Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy
The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services...
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Marlin
HomeBlog Comments vas pup • March 31, 2023 5:13 PM Israeli private electric plane will soon be ready for take off https://www.timesofisrael.com/spotlight/israeli-private-electric-plane-will-soon-be-ready-for-take-off/ “The day when you...
Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
Now this is interesting: Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations,...
The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability
Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital...
Security Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
HomeBlog Comments Clive Robinson • March 28, 2023 10:50 AM @ Bruce, ALL, “… have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited...
Hacks at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023
An impressive array of hacks were demonstrated at the first day of the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver: On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security...
Friday Squid Blogging: Creating Batteries Out of Squid Cells
This is fascinating: “When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that...
A Hacker’s Mind News
HomeBlog A Hacker’s Mind News My latest book continues to sell well. Its ranking hovers between 1,500 and 2,000 on Amazon. It’s been spied in airports....
Exploding USB Sticks
Exploding USB Sticks In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist...
Mass Ransomware Attack
Mass Ransomware Attack A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack: TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that...
ChatGPT Privacy Flaw
HomeBlog Comments Michael • March 22, 2023 10:21 AM The tweet which asks “Have you been hacked?”, it is a little suspicious that this happens about...
Hack the Pentagon website promotes the benefits of bug bounties to US Military
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Clipboard-injecting malware disguises itself as Tor browser, steals cryptocurrency
Imagine you live in Russia and want to use the Tor browser to anonymise your browsing of the web. There’s a problem. Many people in Russia...
US sends million-dollar scammer to prison for four years
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Smashing Security podcast #315: Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker
A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a maze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden’s commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites. All...
UK police reveal they are running fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect details on cybercriminals
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Can zero trust be saved?
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Right now, “Zero Trust”...
Danger USB! Journalists sent exploding flash drives
Graham Cluley is an award-winning security blogger, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s. View all...
Europe’s transport sector terrorised by ransomware, data theft, and denial-of-service attacks
A new report from ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, looking at cyberattacks targeting the European transport network over a period of almost two years,...