A Little Sunshine
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, ...
Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs
President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims ...
Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications
An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve "notifications," browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user's mobile or desktop device. In many cases these notifications are benign, but ...
Why Paying to Delete Stolen Data is Bonkers
Companies hit by ransomware often face a dual threat: Even if they avoid paying the ransom and can restore things from scratch, about half the time the attackers also threaten to release ...
Google Mending Another Crack in Widevine
For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like Disney, Hulu and ...
The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
Some of the world's largest Internet firms have taken steps to crack down on disinformation spread by QAnon conspiracy theorists and the hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan. But according to a California-based ...
QAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline
A phone call to an Internet provider in Oregon on Sunday evening was all it took to briefly sideline multiple websites related to 8chan/8kun -- a controversial online image board linked to ...
Amid an Embarrassment of Riches, Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work
There's an old adage in information security: "Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure." Many organizations that do hire professionals to test their network security ...
Promising Infusions of Cash, Fake Investor John Bernard Walked Away With $30M
September featured two stories on a phony tech investor named John Bernard, a pseudonym used by a convicted thief named John Clifton Davies who's fleeced dozens of technology companies out of an ...
Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?
Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related ...
