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Disqus & Kickstarter Hacker Tells How to Against Password Reuse
 After any data breached, they will be traded quickly in dark web or even public domain, and are available to cyber criminals all over the world. These privacy data are organized records to sell, showing password, email, name, address, and etc. It any vicitim reuses same password, he or she will become a potential target. The past hacker is telling how the attacks take place... |
By Catalin Cimpanu  |
Think before Bite: Phishing Targets Amazon Customers Ahead of Prime Day
 This is a fault of Amazon or Prime Day, but its customers are becoming the targets for phishing. Recent years the more and more strong consumer group gives a larger space for cyber criminals to abuse. For example, a phishing kit makes it easy for beginning hacker to construct an email that looks uncomfortably similar to an email alert you would get from Amazon. Prime Day is becoming one of hottest shopping periods and also the hottest opportunities for cybercriminals... |
| By Austin Williams |
1 million StreetEasy accounts have been hacked
 You are hunting for new home, but your data are for sale on dark web. Say less online may become a trend when more and more hacker stories are reported. A million StreetEasy accounts have been hacked and for sale on the dark web. The company confirmed Tuesday evening. It's difficult for StreetEasy, its spokesperson said the stolen data included email addresses, user names and encrypted passwords. The actual leakage are even more, like phone numbers, the last four digits, card type, expiration dates, and billing addresses... |
| By JIM DALRYMPLE |
Google Help You to Stop Phishing With a Quick Test
 Phishing is very common in your email input box, it's an attempt to trick you by pretending to be someone you know, but identifying phishing can be harder than you think. We have all seen the emails from the Nigerian prince asking for you to help make a financial transaction, or a friend trapped overseas who desperately needs financial help. Can you tell what’s fake quickly? Check out this short quiz from google ... |
| By Google |
Hackers spread ISIS propaganda by hijacking Twitter accounts
 An investigation from TechCrunch found that the impacted accounts appear to have been overtaken in recent days and weeks after years of inactivity; Twitter is implying that it's email providers like Yahoo and Hotmail, which deactivate accounts and recycle email addresses, that are part of the problem... |
| By Christopher Carbone |
UK Conservative Party conference App Leaks MP Personal Details
 Some phone numbers and email addresses for high-profile British MPs were shared on Twitter, and a few of them even received prank calls and messages. This data lead was due to a mobile conferencing app for the UK's Conservative Party. When things is related to security, you must get qualified guys to do, otherwise you take a risk of privacy sharing on Twitter or Facebook, especially your privacy is interesting in public... |
| By Catalin Cimpanu |
US State Department Reveals Data Breach Employee Information Exposed
 Trump once said he wrote important things on papers. He seems distrust modern information technology to protect privacy. The new accident in the US State Department, which has confirmed a data breach through its email system, lets the president win again. The latest new revealed that a compromised email system leaked, and 1% employees' personally identifiable information(PII) have been exposed. Because, these are sort of personal data, the security notice was marked "Sensitive but Unclassified." The hacker may want to get more ... |
| By Charlie Osborne |
Destructive Ransomware Has Made Crooks 6M
 This destructive ransomware, called as SamSam, has made crooks $6m by encrypting data. The attackers who run the ransomware show no signs of giving up. These guys are taking $300,000 a month in ransom from victims, the total is more than 6 millions since late 2015. The malware encrypts your files for ransom similar as
other ransomware to make profit. The difference is while other variants are spammed out to potential victims by email, SamSam attacks are thought to begin with a remote desktop protocol... |
| By Danny Palmer |
Lastpass - The Best Way to Manage Online Passwords
 As a leading password manager, its first priority is safeguarding your data. It relies on strong encryption algorithms, AES-256 bit encryption with PBKDF2 SHA-256, to ensure complete security in the cloud. You create an account with an email address and a strong master password to locally-generate a unique encryption key. Your data is encrypted and decrypted at the device level. In other words your master password and the keys are never sent to LastPass’ servers. It also offers Two-factor authentication ... |
| By Anne Yang |
Top 10 Passwords Deciphered Less Than A SECOND
 When you choose own password, either simple or complex, you usually don't have extra payment. So, why do select a simpler one? The top 10 commonest passwords can be deciphered in less than a SECOND in hacker world. It means totally useless in front of security attack. Complex passwords, however, show us another story. A security expert reveals how to create one that will take 227 MILLION years to crack... |
| By SIOFRA BRENNAN |
Trend Micro Is Fighting Locky Ransomware Variants
 Locky ransomware isn't new, but recent weeks an alert is urgent: one variant of this ransomware is coming under one of the largest malware campaigns in the second half of 2017: 23 million spam emails. According to Trend Micro, the ransomware is not likely to be on the scale of 'Wannacrypt' and 'Petya' that relied on Microsoft vulnerability in Windows XP. Only if you deal with the spam email in right way: delete it... |
| By IANS |
Rehab Camp for Young Cyber-Attackers on Right Track
 Cyber attack is crime, but never fun. The worse and worse cyber safety issue is largely due to some teenagers never think cyber attack is definitely a crime and risks to be put into jail, so that ruin life on crime entrance. Using a key to try other's door is a crime, so is to try other's email. However teenagers possibly don't completely agree with this. To decrease the cyber attacker's base, and divert young attackers away from a life of crime, NCA will run rehab camp to help them back to... |
| By BBC Technology |
Regular File Backup Against Ransomware Threat
 Ransomware is becoming a new threat in information security area. If you click a malicious link in email, the consequence is hard to predicate. Your photos or files may be gone. If you didn't backup them yet and you desperately want them back, you are possibly the victim of ransomware... |
| By WRAL CHANNEL |
Blackmail David Beckham: 1 M Or Email Leak
 David Beckham is usually in news. This time he becomes a keyword in computer security pages. He and his team refused blackmailers a deal of a £1 million. The sequence was some negative emails really leaked. David did a right thing: say no to cyber criminals. But now the society starts to move the focus to what he said in private emails... |
By Kenina Christi  |
Hackers Released House Democrats Personal Information
 This is a cyber security incident with political backdrop. All Democrats in House of Representatives may be involved with this leak. Lots of private cell phone numbers and email addresses will be public, ... |
| By ALEXANDER MALLIN |
Patreon Hacked, Gigabytes Of Data And Code Leaked
 Maker-funding site Patreon was hacked last week resulting in the dump of gigabytes of code and user data. User passwords were encrypted using bcrypt which suggests they are mostly safe but some users have found their data in the trove. Founder Jack Conte wrote: here was unauthorized access to registered names, email addresses, posts, and some... |
| By John Biggs |
Password Manager LastPass Hacked, Exposing Encrypted Master Passwords
 Password manager LastPass said Monday that email addresses and encrypted master passwords were compromised in a breach. LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist wrote in a blog post that the company does not believe user accounts were accessed in the attack, but the company recommended that users change the master password they use to access their account. ... |
| By Kate Vinton |
On heels of city of Mobile hacked, here's some tips to prevent a cyber attack from infecting your life
 If there is one thing certain about 2014, cyber attacks are on the rise and no one business or government sector is immune from its effect. The latest victim is the city of Mobile, which reported Monday that hackers were to blame for a nearly week-long interruption of the city's email system. Every department was affected, from police to public... |
| By John Sharp |
Check to see if you've been hacked
 To find out if your details were stolen in the massive Adobe hacking attack click on the link to https://lastpass.com/adobe . Once there, enter your email address, click on 'test my email' and you'll get a message telling you whether you were hit. It also gives you tips on what you need to do. The hack was last year but it has just been... |
| By ONE News |
Russia gang hacks 1.2 billion usernames and passwords
 A Russian group has hacked 1.2 billion usernames and passwords belonging to more than 500 million email addresses, according to Hold Security - a US firm specialising in discovering breaches. Hold Security described the hack as the "largest data breach known to date". It claimed the stolen information came from more than 420,000 websites,... |
| By www.bbc.com |