Few Fortune 100 Firms List Security Pros in Their Executive Ranks
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Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list that hasn't shifted much since is that ...
LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack
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[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech ...
SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Ashley Madison hack, Data breaches, Hulu, Impact Team, Ne'er-Do-Well News, William Webster Harrison
[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m ...
Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition
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Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple ...
Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, ashley madison, Ashley Madison hack, Avid Life Media, Disney, Hulu, Jeremy Bullock, Noel Biderman, Wall to Wall Media, Warner Bros., William Webster Harrison
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the ...
Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?
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If you've ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you've received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related ...
Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks
BrianKrebs | | Arkady Bukh, Dmitry Volkov, dropbox, FACCT, Fight Against Cybercrime Technologies, Formspring, Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, Lamarez, linkedin, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Oleg Tolstikh, Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Yevgeniy Nikulin, Zl0m
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of ...
U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
BrianKrebs | | Graham Ivan Clarke, Joseph James O'Connor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, PlugWalkJoe, SIM swapping, twitter hack
Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years ...
SMS Phishers Harvested Phone Numbers, Shipment Data from UPS Tracking Tool
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The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. "smishing") messages ...
Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny
BrianKrebs | | +7.9235059268, Breadcrumbs, CDEK, Constella Intelligence, crypt[.]guru, [email protected], Intel 471, Kerens, Kolumb, [email protected], Ne'er-Do-Well News, [email protected], [email protected], Sergey Y Purtov, Sergey Yurievich Purtov, [email protected], VIP Crypt, Web Fraud 2.0, Сергей Юрьевич Пуртов
If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so that it appears ...