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Hackers Leverage GDPR to Target Airbnb Customers

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A new phishing scam capitalizes on the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to trick Airbnb customers into sharing personal and financial data, Redscan reports. The scale of the campaign is unknown, though it likely targets email addresses taken from the open Web.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 04, 2018

What to do after a data breach: 5 steps to minimize risk

It happened again. Another major web service lost control of its database, and now you’re scrambling to stay ahead of the bad guys.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 03, 2018

A critical security flaw in popular industrial software put power plants at risk

A severe vulnerability in a widely used industrial control software could have been used to disrupt and shut down power plants and other critical infrastructure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 02, 2018

Why Hackers Love Healthcare

Much like the rest of the world, healthcare organizations are shifting work to cloud services in order to improve accessibility and patient care. However, the migration of these workloads and moving valuable information such as PHI (personal health information) and PII (personally identifiable information) to the cloud has also led to cybercriminals taking a particular interest in the industry.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2018

Two-fifths of UK Firms Suffered Attack or Security Breach in 2017

Some 43% of UK businesses have experienced a security breach or cyber-attack in the past 12 months, a slight drop from a year previously, according to the latest government research.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2018

The firms that piggyback on ransomware attacks for profit

Being hit by ransomware must be bad enough when you don’t have a secure backup of your critical data that you can turn to. Just imagine how it feels to then be ripped off a second time by the data recovery firm you turn to for help in your moment of panic.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 25, 2018

Cybercrime Economy Generates $1.5 Trillion a Year

If cybercrime was a country, it would have the 13th highest GDP in the world. Attackers generate $1.5 trillion in annual profit, which is about equal to the GDP of Russia, according to a new study on the interconnected economy of cybercrime.

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Apr 21, 2018

LinkedIn Fixes User Data Leak Bug

LinkedIn has quietly patched a vulnerability which could have allowed malicious third parties to steal members’ personal data.

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Apr 20, 2018

Gold Galleon hackers target maritime shipping industry

Researchers have uncovered a Nigerian hacking ring which targets maritime shipping firms in order to try and steal millions of dollars on an annual basis.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 19, 2018

Allscripts: Ransomware, recovery, and frustrated customers

The actors behind SamSam launched an attack against Allscripts in January 2018, leaving the company’s customers without access to the services needed to run their medical practices — some for more than a week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 15, 2018

The ransomware that says, “I don’t want money” – play a violent game instead!

Not all ransomware is made equal. To be clear, we’re not for a moment suggesting that any form of ransomware is technically, ethically, morally or legally acceptable.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 14, 2018

Avoiding the Ransomware Mistakes that Crippled Atlanta

Last month, five of Atlanta's 13 government offices were "hijacked," as the city's mayor put it, by ransomware that disrupted far-reaching facets of the city’s digital infrastructure. From the courts to the police department to public works, government activity was essentially frozen as the hackers gave the city a week to pay the ransom – roughly $50,000 worth of bitcoin – or have critical data and processes deleted permanently.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2018

As legal threats rise, this new report aims to guide ethical hackers

Security researchers, ethical hackers, and bug hunters spend their days trying to make the world safer and more secure. And yet the US legal system makes it almost impossible for them to do their jobs, thanks to flimsy interpretations of long, outdated laws.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 10, 2018

Surprise: We're getting better at cybersecurity

Organizations are closing the skills and preparedness gap between hackers and themselves, improving a picture that's all too often painted as grim. That means we — at least those of us in the Western Hemisphere — are getting pretty good at cybersecurity, according to the latest numbers from one of the largest cybersecurity firms.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 07, 2018

Iran 'the New China' as a Pervasive Nation-State Hacking Threat

Of the four new advanced persistent threat (APT) groups christened by FireEye last year, three were out of Iran. Mandiant, the incident response services arm of FireEye, witnessed a major increase in nation-state hacking activity by Iranian attackers in 2017, especially on the cyber espionage side of things. Iranian groups now are maintaining and keeping a foothold in victim organizations for months and sometimes years, demonstrating their sophistication, according to Mandiant's newly published M Trends Report on its incident investigations in 2017.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2018

Saks, Lord & Taylor Payment Card Breach Affects 5 Million

Luxury department store behemoth Saks Fifth Avenue and sister stores Saks OFF 5TH and Lord & Taylor have become the latest retail victim of a data breach. The incident impacts 5 million payment cards that were used at stores in North America, from May 2017 to March 2018.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 03, 2018

150 million MyFitnessPal accounts compromised – here’s what to do

MyfitnessPal has been hacked! Because email addresses were among the information stolen, criminals have been able to send MyfitnessPal spear phishing emails for the past month. These spear phishing attacks are especially dangerous because stolen personal information that users had logged in the app can be used to make phishing emails very convincing and difficult to detect.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2018

Saks, Lord & Taylor hacked; 5 million payment cards compromised

Hackers made off with a whopping five million credit and debit card numbers from Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th and Lord & Taylor, placing it “among the most significant credit card heists in modern history.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2018

Update Drupal ASAP: Over a million sites can be easily hacked by any visitor

Developers of popular open-source CMS Drupal are warning admins to immediately patch a flaw that an attacker can exploit just by visiting a vulnerable site.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 29, 2018

GoScanSSH Malware Targets Linux Servers

A recently discovered malware family written using the Golang (Go) programming language is targeting Linux servers and using a different binary for each attack, Talos warns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2018

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