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UK residents hit with extremely personalized scam emails (Help Net Security)
2017-03-30 15:25

A compelling and potentially very successful email spam campaign is being leveraged against UK residents, warns Sophos researcher Paul Ducklin. The email addresses the recipients by their first...

(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 53 released (Help Net Security)
2017-03-30 15:00

(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 53 has been released today. Table of contents How to leverage the...

Actively exploited zero-day in IIS 6.0 affects 60,000+ servers (Help Net Security)
2017-03-30 14:15

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 sports a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2017-7269) that was exploited in the wild last summer and is likely also being exploited by threat actors at...

Number of compromised records up 566% in 2016 (Help Net Security)
2017-03-30 14:00

The number of records compromised grew a historic 566 percent in 2016 from 600 million to more than 4 billion. These leaked records include data cybercriminals have traditionally targeted like...