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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit ReportsIdentity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 EditionMicrosoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the...
Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.
Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these...
New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts
New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million AccountsT-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as...
Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty
Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads GuiltyDenis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of...
Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days
Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 DaysOn Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 EditionMicrosoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its...
Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire SitesThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that...
Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims Photo: BrandonKleinPhoto / Shutterstock.com Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras...
The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now
The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For NowMillions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they’re eligible to claim a...
Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims Photo: BrandonKleinPhoto / Shutterstock.com Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras...