Plus, Safari security foiled by… a finger swipe? Roundup This week we wrangled with alleged Russian election meddling, hundreds of millions of username-password combos spilled online , Oracle mega-patches , and cliams of RICO swap-gangs .…
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DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc
Austin Thompson, 23, cops to $95,000 worth of damage The man accused over DDoS-bombing several online games hosts in 2013 and 2014 has entered a guilty plea under a deal with US authorities.…
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‘DerpTroll’ derps into plea deal, admits DDoS attacks on EA, Steam, Sony game servers
They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more
Microsoft’s September 2018 Patch Tuesday has brought fixes for a little over 60 security vulnerabilities, 17 of which are critical and one is being actively exploited in the wild. The software giant has also released two advisories: one detailing the vulnerabilities it plugged in Adobe Flash and the other announcing that the company is still working on an update for CVE-2018-5391, a Windows denial of service vulnerability against the IP stack dubbed “FragmentSmack”. (The advisory … More ? The post September 2018 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-day appeared first on Help Net Security .
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September 2018 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-day
Researchers say pentesting software being used for botnets Cisco Talos says criminals are using one research company’s testing tools to set up and run botnets.…
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Cisco smells a RAT in Breaking Security’s Remcos PC wrangler
It could happen, warns researcher BSides Tel Aviv Blockchain technologies might be abused to create a takedown-resistant infrastructure for botnets.…
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Hot new application for blockchain: How does botnet control sound?
And why serial self-promoter John McAfee is a security expert on Russian hacking Senate Democrats are pressing government officials to explain their claims on election tampering and cyberattacks.…
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US senators get digging to find out the truth about FCC DDoS attack
Infamous IoT menace lives on in its hellspawn Cybercrooks are using the infamous Mirai IoT botnet as a framework to quickly add in new exploits and functionalities, it has emerged.…
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OMG, that’s downright Wicked: Botnet authors twist corpse of Mirai into new threats
I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…
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Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw
Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can’t you kids be normal and just DDoS Updated Infosec bods say they have uncovered what’s thought to be the first case of a major industrial control system network infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware.…
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Now that’s taking the p… Sewage plant ‘hacked’ to craft crypto-coins