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California Student Arrested For Phishing Teachers To Change Grades

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Bet nobody in your high school got in trouble for this: a 16-year-old hacker was arrested in Concord, California for launching a phishing campaign to steal teachers' login data and change grades. The student, whose name was withheld because he's a minor, faces 14 felony counts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 19, 2018

DARPA Initiative: Cutting Attack Dwell Time Down to Just 24 Hours

One of the major issues in IT security is not that attacks and exploits are successful. It's that they're successful and then go unnoticed for so long.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2018

Mexican Banks Under Cyber Attack: Unauthorized SPEI Transfers

As many as five Mexican banks may have been targeted by what appears to be a highly co-ordinated cyber-attack in which unauthorized transfers were made to bogus accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 15, 2018

White Hat Hackers Demonstrate 2FA Flaw Through Phishing Tactics

Social engineering tactics are the bread and butter of hackers. Preying on trust, malicious actors are able to lure users into sharing personal information, even login credentials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2018

Record Data Breaches Persist Amid Rising Security Budgets

Despite companies increasing their security budgets and investing a fortune in the best cybersecurity tools, organizations today are subject to more successful breaches than ever before – with five million data records lost or stolen every day, according to the fifth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report from CyberEdge group and sponsored by Gigamon.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2018

Exploring Iran's Offensive Cyber Tactics in Response to Sanctions

The Islamic Republic of Iran commonly responds to sanctions with offensive cyber-campaigns. Since at least 2009, Iran has relied on cyber-attacks to achieve many of its policy goals.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2018

Small Businesses in the UK Face Increased Threat of Data Breaches

UK small businesses are up to 20 times more likely to suffer damaging data breaches than their larger counterparts, according to new data from Terbium Labs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2018

Trial For Latvian Ruslans Bondars Facing Hacking Charges

Jury selection is set to begin in Virginia in the trial of a Latvian man accused of running a hacking operation offering malware products and services to cybercriminals.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2018

Equifax 2017 Breach Update: SEC Details On Data Types And Volumes

Under-fire credit reporting agency Equifax has released updated figures clarifying the types and volumes of data stolen in its massive 2017 breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2018

Beware: New GDPR Phishing Scam Targets Airbnb Hosts and Guests

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

Key Steps To Take Post Data Breach To Reduce Potential Risks

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

Schneider Electric: Critical Flaw Poses Risk To Power Plants

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

Ransomware and Malware Attacks Threatening Healthcare Data Security

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

UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018: 43% of Firms Report Attacks

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

Ransomware Recovery: High-Cost Solutions and Exploitation of Victims

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 Study: Unveiling $1.5 Trillion Impact

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2018

LinkedIn: Critical Advisory for Autofill Data Leak Issue

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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 20, 2018

Gold Galleon Hackers Steal Millions: Targeting Maritime Shipping Firms

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

SamSam Ransomware Attack on Allscripts: Effects on Healthcare Services

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

Ransomware: A New Twist Where Games Replace Cash Demands

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

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