Security News

Feds Bust Up Dark Web Hub Wall Street Market
2019-05-03 16:48

Federal investigators in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands announced today the arrest and charging of three German nationals and a Brazilian man as the alleged masterminds behind the...

Google offers auto-delete option for location, web tracking history
2019-05-03 05:45

Google has added a control option to users’ accounts that will allow them to instruct the company to auto-delete their location history, browsing and search data once a certain length of time has...

Too fast, too insecure: Securing Mongo Express web administrative interfaces
2019-04-26 05:30

Mongo Express is a lightweight web-based administrative interface deployed to manage MongoDB databases interactively. It is authored using Node.js, Express and Bootstrap packages. This case study...

How automated Dark Web marketplaces make credential stuffing attacks more profitable
2019-04-25 14:11

Validated stolen credentials cost less than a cup of coffee, but economies of scale have made selling user accounts more lucrative than ever, according to Recorded Future.

Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem
2019-04-18 02:11

Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities -- such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot -- are welcome. Bad bots, those that...

Insane in the domain: Sea Turtle hackers pwn DNS orgs to dash web surfers on the rocks of phishing pages
2019-04-17 23:25

Website settings altered to point visitors to malicious clones Internet domain registrars and at least one registry were hijacked to change certain websites' DNS settings so that visitors to said...

ThreatList: Bad Bots Account for a Fifth of All Web Traffic, FinServ Hit the Worst
2019-04-17 15:34

The financial services industry sees nearly half of all website traffic coming from malicious bots.

How criminals use fraud guides from the Dark Web to scam organizations and individuals
2019-04-17 13:34

A review of fraud guides by Terbium Labs reveals the tactics used by cybercriminals to steal and exploit your data.