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Cybercriminals are gearing up for the holidays The upcoming holiday season could be a lucrative time for cybercriminals, according to a new ThreatMetrix Q3 Cybercrime Report. The digital identity company detected 45 million e-commerce attacks during Q3, a 25 percent increase over the previous quarter.  Login attacks were also up 40 percent more than in theContinue reading “Cybercriminals are gearing up for the holidays”

Nmap 7 is released! https://nmap.org/7/ The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 7.00 from https://nmap.org/. It is the product of three and a half years of work, nearly 3200 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 6 release inContinue reading “Nmap 7 is released!”

Anonymous Group Leaks Identities of 1000 KKK Members The online hacktivist group Anonymous has followed through on its promise to disclose the identities of hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members. On Monday, Anonymous vowed to release the full info dump of about 1,000 alleged Ku Klux Klan members with a chosen date of 5th of thisContinue reading “Anonymous Group Leaks Identities of 1000 KKK Members”

New ransomware uses Remote Desktop to spread Analysis of the ransomware was conducted by malware analyst, Nathan Scott. When the ransomware executable is run, it first scans all mapped drives, removable drives, and network drives for data files to encrypt. “When the ransomware executable is run it will scan all mapped drives, including removable and networkContinue reading “New ransomware uses Remote Desktop to spread”

Google is Merging its Chrome OS with Android According to a recent report published by the Wall Street Journal, Google has been working for two years to merge Chrome OS and Android, and you can expect to see an early version of the ‘single OS for all’ as soon as next year at Google I/OContinue reading “Google is Merging its Chrome OS with Android”

WordPress Security: Brute Force Amplification Attack Targeting Thousand of Blogs Most of the times, we have reported about WordPress vulnerabilities involving vulnerable plugins, but this time security researchers have discovered Brute Force Amplification attacks on the most popular CMS (content management system) platform. Researchers from security firm Sucuri have found a way to perform BruteContinue reading “WordPress Security: Brute Force Amplification Attack Targeting Thousand of Blogs”

Yet another security update for Adobe It seems that Adobe still haven’t learned that security is vital to everything we do as users of anything. So why is Adobe so widely used and required if it fails so drastically at every hurdle? Well it is an ongoing question that everyone seems to have been askingContinue reading “Yet another security update for Adobe”

UK ISP Talk Talk suffer an embarrassing data breach

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