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2018-05-23 16:52:00 | Hackers Find New Method of Installing Backdoored Plugins on WordPress Sites (lien direct) | Hackers have come up with a never-before-seen method of installing backdoored plugins on websites running the open-source WordPress CMS, and this new technique relies on using weakly protected WordPress.com accounts and the Jetpack plugin. [...] | |||
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2018-05-23 14:47:01 | CryptON Ransomware Installed Using Hacked Remote Desktop Services (lien direct) | A new and active campaign for the CryptON Ransomware is currently underway where attackers are hacking into computers with Internet accessible Remote Desktop Services. Once the attackers gain access to the computer they manually execute the ransomware and encrypt your files. [...] | |||
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2018-05-23 10:55:04 | Nation-State Group Hacked 500,000 Routers to Prepare a Cyber-Attack on Ukraine (lien direct) | Security researchers from Cisco said today that they've detected a giant botnet of hacked routers that appears to be preparing for a cyber-attack on Ukraine. [...] | |||
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2018-05-23 09:11:04 | Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (lien direct) | Security researchers have found a backdoor account in the firmware of D-Link DIR-620 routers that allows hackers to take over any device reachable via the Internet. [...] | |||
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2018-05-23 03:47:05 | Mozilla Adds 2FA Support for Firefox Accounts (lien direct) | Mozilla is rolling out support for a two-step authentication process for Firefox Accounts, the credentials system that protects bookmarks, passwords, open tabs and other data synchronized between devices via the Firefox Sync feature. [...] | |||
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2018-05-23 03:31:01 | FacePause Chrome Extension Pauses a YouTube Video When You Look Away (lien direct) | A new experimental, and may I dare say, creepy Chrome Extension called FacePause pauses a YouTube video when you look away from the screen.  It does this by utilizing an API called FaceDetector that has been available in Chrome since version 56. [...] | |||
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2018-05-23 00:50:00 | Spam Botnet Tracked Down to Malicious PHP Script Found on 5,000 Hacked Sites (lien direct) | A malicious PHP script found on over 5,000 compromised websites has been fingered as the source of a large-scale spam campaign that has been silently redirecting users to web pages hosting diet and intelligence boosting pills. [...] | |||
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2018-05-22 18:45:04 | New US Bill Wants to Create National Guard Cyber Units (lien direct) | US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would create specialized units in the National Guard for defending and responding to cyber-attacks. [...] | |||
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2018-05-22 14:19:04 | Amazon Is Selling Facial Recognition Software to US Law Enforcement (lien direct) | Public record documents obtained from two US states reveal that Amazon has entered the surveillance market, where it's been silently advertising its facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. [...] | |||
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2018-05-22 14:03:03 | Google Chrome Has a Built-In Password Generator. Here\'s how to use it! (lien direct) | Chrome has a surprising amount of features that are hidden or not well known that can offer a great deal of functionality for users. One of these features, is a built-in password generator that can be used to create strong passwords when creating new accounts and a password manager called Smart Lock that stores these passwords . [...] | |||
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2018-05-22 10:02:01 | BMW Fixes Security Flaws in Several Well-Known Car Models (lien direct) | BMW is working on firmware updates for some of its cars after researchers from the Tencent Keen Security Lab have discovered 14 flaws affecting high-profile car models such as BMW i Series, BMW X Series, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, and BMW 7 Series. [...] | |||
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2018-05-22 06:30:05 | Microsoft to Block Flash in Office 365 (lien direct) | Microsoft announced plans last week to block Flash, Shockwave, and Silverlight content from activating in Office 365. The block will only apply to Office 365 subscription clients, but not to Office 2016, Office 2013, or Office 2010 distributions, the company said. [...] | |||
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2018-05-22 04:32:00 | Adobe to Acquire Magento E-Commerce Platform for $1.68 Billion (lien direct) | Adobe announced yesterday plans to buy the Magento e-commerce platform for $1.68 billion. While the Magento brand is mostly known for the open source online store CMS of the same name, Adobe was mostly interested in Magento Commerce, an online-store-as-a-service platform. [...] | |||
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2018-05-21 18:35:00 | Google and Microsoft Reveal New Spectre Attack (lien direct) | Security researchers from Google and Microsoft have found a new variant of the Spectre attack that affects processors made by AMD, ARM, IBM, and Intel. [...] | |||
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2018-05-21 17:51:05 | Phishing Email Ironically Provides a List of Scammers You Should Avoid (lien direct) | There really is no honor among thieves. I recently found a phishing scheme that contains a list of names that are associated with other scams that the recipient should avoid. [...] | |||
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2018-05-21 17:30:00 | Nvidia Creates AI for Training Robots to Learn From Watching Humans (lien direct) | Nvidia scientists have created what they call a "first of its kind" AI system that can learn by observing the actions of a human, and then complete tasks based on the observed patterns. [...] | |||
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2018-05-21 12:10:04 | GPON Routers Attacked With New Zero-Day (lien direct) | Attacks on Dasan GPON routers are continuing to happen using two vulnerabilities disclosed last month, but today, researchers from Qihoo 360 Netlab have revealed that one botnet operator appears to have deployed a new zero-day affecting the same router types. [...] | |||
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2018-05-21 10:06:02 | Advocacy Groups Call for the FTC to Break Up Facebook (lien direct) | Several advocacy groups have banded together for a campaign that calls upon the US Federal Trade Commission to intervene and break up Facebook into smaller companies âand more specifically to split off the Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp services from the mother company. [...] | |||
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2018-05-21 00:30:00 | 58% of Botnet Malware Infections Last Under a Day (lien direct) | The vast majority of botnet malware infections last under a day, according to a Fortinet report released last week âthe Q1 2018 Threat Landscape Report. [...] | |||
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2018-05-20 15:09:02 | Using chrome://settings/cleanup to Scan for Unwanted Software Using Chrome (lien direct) | If you find that your installation of the Chrome Browser is starting to act strange, slow, or you are seeing ads where they should not normally be, then you can also perform an on-demand manual scan using the Chrome Cleanup Tool. This tool will scan your computer for unwanted software and remove any that are detected. [...] | |||
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2018-05-20 12:14:00 | Phishing Roundup: Caracal, Stealth Mango, Tangelo, Apple, DHL, eFax & More (lien direct) | Phishing threats are currently targeting your credentials for Apple, Facebook, Gmail, and more. In this roundup we detail some of the current Phishing threats active on the Internet. [...] | |||
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2018-05-20 05:55:00 | Data of Over 200 Million Japanese Sold on Underground Hacking Forum (lien direct) | A hacker suspected to be operating out of China has been seen peddling the data of around 200 million Japanese users on an underground cybercrime forum, according to a FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence report shared with Bleeping Computer. [...] | |||
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2018-05-19 02:30:00 | Students Hack High School to Change Grades, Get Lunch Refunds (lien direct) | Two students from Bloomfield Hills High School are the main suspects of a recent hack discovered at the school this week. [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 21:35:02 | The Week in Ransomware - May 18th 2018 - Mostly Small Variants (lien direct) | It has been mostly small variants released this week, with a few Scarab variants released and various U.S. government agencies being hit with ransomware. Otherwise, it's mostly ransomware that will not make it into the actual wild. [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 17:15:00 | New Spectre Attack Recovers Data From a CPU\'s Protected SMM Mode (lien direct) | Security researchers from Eclypsium have detailed yesterday a new variation of the Spectre attack that can recover data stored inside a secure CPU area named the System Management Mode (SMM). [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 17:04:01 | (Déjà vu) Google Agrees to Pay $11 Million to Owners of Suspended AdSense Accounts (lien direct) | Google has agreed to create a fund of 11 million dollars as part of a a class action settlement for terminating or disabling a publisher's Adsense accounts, but not paying out any balances that the publisher had at the time. [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 17:04:01 | Google To Pay $11 Million Settlement for Not Paying Suspended Publishers (lien direct) | Google has agreed to create a fund of 11 million dollars as part of a a class action settlement for terminating or disabling a publisher's Adsense accounts, but not paying out any balances that the publisher had at the time. [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 11:38:05 | DrayTek Router Zero-Day Under Attack (lien direct) | DrayTek, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of broadband CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) such as routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN devices, announced today that hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability to change DNS settings on some of its routers. [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 09:38:00 | Owners of Mugshots.com Arrested on Extortion Charges (lien direct) | Three of the four owners of the Mugshots.com website have been arrested on charges of extortion, filed by the state of California. [...] | |||
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2018-05-18 07:00:01 | The Facebook Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges and Users Are Freaking Out (lien direct) | The Facebook Android app is asking for superuser permissions, and a bunch of users are freaking out about granting the Facebook app full access to their device, an understandable reaction following the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 17:20:00 | DropBox To Pay 1.6 Million as Part of a California Auto-Renew Settlement (lien direct) | Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley announced yesterday a consumer protection settlement between DropBox and the Alameda, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sonoma Counties in California over auto-renewing of paid subscriptions. [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 15:37:02 | Google Chrome to Remove “Secure” Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (lien direct) | Google announced earlier today plans to drop the "Secure" indicator from the Chrome URL address bar and only show a lock icon when the user is navigating to an HTTPS-secured website. [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 11:10:05 | Mozilla Makes It Easier to Hide Tabs in Firefox and Unclutter Your Tab Bar (lien direct) | Mozilla is making it easier to hide tabs and clean up crowded tab bars, helping users better manage their tabs and keep an organized work environment. [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 09:40:04 | Microsoft\'s New Xbox Adaptive Controller Created for Players With Disabilities (lien direct) | Microsoft unveiled the new Xbox Adaptive Controller, which was developed entirely for players with disabilities. As everyone is unique and so are their individual requirements, this controller was developed so that its use would be tailored around a particular person's needs rather than a general group of consumers. [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 09:07:04 | WinstarNssmMiner Coinminer Campaign Makes 500,000 Victims in Three Days (lien direct) | Security researchers from Qihoo 360 Total Security have detected a massive malware campaign spreading a new coinminer, and which appears to have made roughly 500,000 victims in three days alone. [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 06:50:00 | Voice Squatting Attacks Impact Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistants (lien direct) | A team of Chinese and US researchers has discovered a new method of attacking smart assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home, which they have named "voice squatting." [...] | |||
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2018-05-17 00:50:00 | Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again (lien direct) | Cisco released 16 security advisories yesterday, including alerts for three vulnerabilities rated "Critical" and which received a maximum of 10 out of 10 on the CVSSv3 severity score. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 20:36:05 | Windows 10 Insider Build 17672 Makes Improvements to Windows Security (lien direct) | Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17672 (Redstone 5) to insiders in the fast and skip ahead rings. This is mostly a bug fix build, but does have the new feature of requiring antivirus products to run as a protected process or they will not be registered with Windows Security. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 18:19:04 | Adware Launches In-Browser Mining Sites Pretending to be Cloudflare (lien direct) | An adware bundle has started to create a Windows autorun that automatically launches Chrome so that it connects to a in-browser mining page. To make matters worse, it does it in a way that makes it so Chrome is invisible. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 17:45:00 | Police Seize Servers of Bulletproof Provider Known For Hosting Malware Ops (lien direct) | Dutch police have seized ten servers belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider known for harboring child pornography sites and command and control servers for DDoS botnets, spam, and malware operations. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 17:02:03 | U.S. Senate Vote Saves Net Neutrality For Now ... (lien direct) | Today the U.S. Senate held a vote on reinstating Net Neutrality protections that is currently scheduled by the FCC to be repealed in June 2018. With a vote of 52 for keeping Net Neutrality and 47 against, the Senate has, for now, been able to prevent the repeal of the Net Neutrality rules. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 15:11:05 | ZipperDown Vulnerability May Impact 10% of All iOS Apps (lien direct) | Security researchers from Pangu Lab, a well-known company that provides iOS jailbreaks, said on Monday that they have found a vulnerability that they believe affects around 10% of all iOS apps. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 14:00:02 | Rollout of Windows 10 April Update Halted for Devices With Intel & Toshiba SSDs (lien direct) | Microsoft has halted the deployment of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update for computers using certain types of Intel and Toshiba solid state drives (SSDs). [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 11:15:01 | Suspected Member of TheDarkOverlord Hacking Group Arrested in Serbia (lien direct) | Serbian police have arrested a 38-year-old man from Belgrade on suspicion of being part of the infamous The Dark Overlord (TDO) hacking crew. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 05:10:04 | Microsoft Releases KB4100347, KB4134660, and KB4134661 (lien direct) | Microsoft released today three additional Windows update packages âMicrosoft Releases KB4100347, KB4134660, and KB4134661. [...] | |||
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2018-05-16 00:30:00 | Google Fixes Issue That Broke Millions of Web-Based Games in Chrome (lien direct) | Google released yesterday a Chrome update that fixed a bug that broke millions of web-based games, some of which couldn't play audio at all, despite whatever tricks and configs users tried. [...] | |||
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2018-05-15 17:45:03 | Windows 10 OpenSSH Client Installed by Default in April 2018 Update (lien direct) | With the release of the April 2018 Update, the OpenSSH Client is now officially out of beta and is also installed by default in Windows 10.  The OpenSSH Server for Windows is also out of beta, but still needs to be manually installed. [...] | |||
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2018-05-15 17:19:03 | Shadowy Hackers Accidentally Reveal Two Zero-Days to Security Researchers (lien direct) | An unidentified hacker group appears to have accidentally exposed two fully-working zero-days when they've uploaded a weaponized PDF file to a public malware scanning engine. [...] | |||
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2018-05-15 14:23:04 | New Bip Dharma Ransomware Variant Released (lien direct) | A new variant of the Dharma Ransomware was discovered that appends the .bip extension to encrypted files. It is not known exactly how this variant is being distributed, but in the past Dharma is typically spread by hacking into Remote Desktop Services and manually installing the ransomware. [...] | |||
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2018-05-15 13:17:02 | Dutch Government to “Phase Out” Use of Kaspersky Antivirus (lien direct) | The Dutch government will be phasing out the use of Kaspersky software products on government networks, according to a letter to parliament by Justice Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus. [...] |
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