Catalin Cimpanu reports: Microsoft Office products are today’s top target for hackers, according to attack and exploitation data gathered by Kaspersky Lab. In a presentation at its security conference –the Security Analyst Summit– the company said that around 70 percent of the attacks its products have detected in Q4 2018 are trying to abuse a…
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A clever way to increase awareness in the workplace
Seen on Twitter. This is brilliant :))) Apparently Shawn is the HR boss. pic.twitter.com/N45GxdtwOa — Mladen Prajdic (@MladenPrajdic) April 11, 2019 [The image shows a “Password Change Sign Up Sheet” where employees can list their current password and the one they’d like it changed to. After a few employees signed up publicly that way, there’s…
Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts
Ingrid Lunden and Zack Whittaker report: … Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised. “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the…
MD Anderson Cancer Center Appeals $4.3 Million HIPAA Fine
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has filed a lawsuit arguing that a $4.3 million HIPAA penalty levied against it last year by the Department of Health and Human Services following three data breaches involving unencrypted devices was unlawful. In the complaint filed Tuesday in a Texas federal court,…
Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years
Great reporting about Thomas White, aka DPR2, aka “The Cthulhu” by Joseph Cox on Motherboard.
Newly discovered ‘TajMahal’ hacking framework includes 80 malicious modules
Duncan Riley reports: Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new and sophisticated advanced persistent threat framework that was likely developed by a nation-state. Dubbed “TajMahal,” the APT framework contains 80 malicious modules that can be used to attack and steal data from an intended victim. Described by Kaspersky researchers today as one of…