Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer purportedly wants to force messaging providers such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Threema to provide plain text chats to law enforcement agencies on a court order as reported by Der Spiegel and from a number of other German news outlets. […] …
Although web skimming attacks are rampant these days, the underground market for physical card skimming devices is thriving and changing at the rate of technological advancements. […] …
Exploit developer SandboxEscaper has quietly dropped a new zero-day exploit for the Windows operating system just a week after Microsoft’s monthly cycle of security updates. […] …
Microsoft issued a warning yesterday stating that removing Windows account security identifiers (SIDS) that do not have a “friendly” name from security permissions could cause problems in Windows and installed applications. […] …
Do you think your email on Gmail is private? If so, you may want to think again, as your Gmail messages are being scanned by Google for purchases, which are then displayed in your Google account. […] …
This week we saw mostly new variant of existing ransomware being released and nothing particular ground breaking released. Of particular interest was a story released by ProPublica about how ransomware recovery companies just pay the ransomware developers rather than actually decrypting your files using their own in-house technology. […] …
The American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. (ARIN) discovered a fraud scheme through which 757,760 IPv4 addresses worth between $9,850,880 and $14,397,440 were fraudulently obtained. […] …
A report last week about Fxmsp hacker group claiming access to the networks and source code of three antivirus companies with offices in the U.S. generated from alleged victims statements that are disputed by the firm that sounded the alarm. […] …
With Chrome, Safari, and Edge enabling the tracking feature called Hyperlink Auditing, or Pings, by default without a way to disable them, users will need to rely on browser extensions to block them going forward. […] …
Microsoft announced this week that they will be bringing back the Windows Power Toys so that a new generation of users can enjoy them. To start they will be offering two new Power Toys, but have a list of others that they hope to add. […] …
Microsoft has pulled an update for Microsoft Office 2016 because it caused Office applications to freeze when you clicked on links. […] …
A dark web directory called DeepDotWeb has been seized and arrests were made for alleged affiliate commissions generated by referring traffic to illegal sites. […] …
At Build 2019 developer conference, Microsoft announced a bunch of new features for its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. The company also shared how the brand-new Microsoft Edge will simplify development and improve the productivity of consumers, developers, and enterprises. […] …
Mozilla Firefox 66.0.4 is being prepped for release and contains a fix for the expired intermediate signing certificate that caused everyone’s addons to be disabled on Friday. […] …
A new ransomware has been discovered called MegaCortex that is targeting corporate networks and the workstations on them. Once a network is penetrated, the attackers infect the entire network by distributing the ransomware using Windows domain controllers. […] …
Mozilla will block Firefox add-ons that contain obfuscated code as part of the updated Add-on Policy that aims to rid the portal of malicious extensions. […] …
