Five people have been arrested in Miami who are said to be responsible for scamming 1,500 people out of more than $2 million by impersonating IRS agents. Their scams centered on contacting individual taxpayers out of the blue and demanding payments under the threat of jail time.
Steve Ragan |
25 May |
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Hacking Team is back in the news again. Last weekend, the person responsible for Hacking Team's meltdown posted a recap of the incident, including a detailed overview of how they hacked the Italian firm.
Steve Ragan |
21 Apr |
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CERT advisory urges QuickTime removal due to vulnerabilities, Apple does too
Steve Ragan |
18 Apr |
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Drivers in Pennsylvania are being targeted by GPS-based Phishing scam, but the source of the data isn't clear
Steve Ragan |
04 Apr |
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The Innovation Sandbox contest during the RSA Conference has produced a number of interesting ideas and products over the years. It's the first major break for many of the startups attempting to make it in InfoSec, allowing them to showoff their products to investors and potential customers.
Steve Ragan |
03 Mar |
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Every year SplashData releases a list of the world's worst passwords, and for the last five years that list hasn't changed much. While the list is an amusing look at password blunders, the real lessons are in how and why those passwords exist in the first place.
Steve Ragan |
01 Feb |
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Researchers at Rapid7 have disclosed vulnerabilities in Comcast's Xfinity Home Security offerings. The flaws cause the system to falsely report that a home's windows and doors are closed and secured, even if they've been opened.
Steve Ragan |
05 Jan |
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On Tuesday, Microsoft updated their Certificate Trust List (CTL) after the private key for xboxlive.com was leaked to the Web. The company didn't explain how the leak happened, but the exposed certificates were immediately revoked and replaced.
Steve Ragan |
08 Dec |
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Less than a day after the horrific attacks in Paris, ISIS has taken the Al-Hayat propaganda machine to the Darknet and published a new video celebrating the Paris attacks.
Steve Ragan |
16 Nov |
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Today is Veterans Day in the U.S, and CSO recently questioned six veterans who are all active members of the InfoSec community. This standalone Hacked Opinions post will focus on how they transitioned into InfoSec from their military careers.
Steve Ragan |
11 Nov |
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On Tuesday, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office unsealed an indictment against three individuals charged with hacking several financial institutions, financial news publishers, and other companies.
Steve Ragan |
10 Nov |
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Over the weekend, a reader directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outright illegal goods. The post in question offered a list of 590,000 Comcast email addresses and corresponding passwords.
Steve Ragan |
09 Nov |
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Matthew Goulet talks about hacking regulation and legislation with CSO in a series of topical discussions with industry leaders and experts.
Steve Ragan |
06 Nov |
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Lisa Berry-Tayman, from IDT911 talks about hacking regulation and legislation with CSO in a series of topical discussions with industry leaders and experts.
Steve Ragan |
06 Nov |
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Pat Clawson, from Blancco Technology Group, talks about hacking regulation and legislation with CSO in a series of topical discussions with industry leaders and experts.
Steve Ragan |
06 Nov |
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