Security News
There are more than 600 legitimate Microsoft subdomains that can be hijacked and abused for phishing, malware delivery and scams, researchers warned this week. Researchers at Vullnerability, a company that specializes in exploit and vulnerability alerting services, have created an automated system that scanned all the subdomains of some important Microsoft domains.
Well, you shouldn't have, because the pair were among sub-domains hijacked by vulnerability researchers to prove Microsoft is lax with its own online security. Now, as we said, Microsoft has loads of these sub-domains, and after a while it just stops updating some of them and abandons them.
Last Friday, in full glare of the world, Facebook admins suddenly found themselves in an unseemly struggle to wrestle back control of the company's Twitter accounts from attackers that had defaced them. Well even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.
The cybercriminal group OurMine has struck again, claiming responsibility for hijacking and defacing the Twitter accounts of the US National Football League and 15 of its teams. OurMine has a long history of hijacking high profile accounts to turn them into billboards to advertise its so-called security "Services" and/or to vandalize pages, like it did to BuzzFeed back in the group's busy-beaver year of 2016.
Learn how to secure Firefox tabs from mischief with the Don't Touch My Tabs add-on.
Learn how to secure Firefox tabs from mischief with the Don't Touch My Tabs add-on. How to install the Don't Touch My Tabs add-on in Firefox.
A cryptomining malware has infected at least 80k devices and uses various tactics to evade detection.
Debug, another Chuckling Squadder, told Motherboard that the kid was weird, "Swatting celebrities for a follow back."
A vulnerability in the Google Camera app may have allowed attackers to surreptitiously take pictures and record videos even if the phone is locked or the screen is off, Checkmarx researchers have...
Thousands of accounts showed up on the Dark Web -- and customers say Disney has been no help.