Natasha Lomas reports: Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a website with a breach in its recent past they’ll see a pop up notification informing them…
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VirtualBox zero-day published by disgruntled researcher
Catalin Cimpanu reports on a zero-day published by researcher Sergey Zelenyuk and his decision to go public instead of going through the usual system of notification, waiting, etc. Some of the issues he raises are ones that I have been hearing about recently from other researchers who are disenchanted, to say the least, with the…
Recent attempts to extort me
Sometimes I tweet these, but I thought that I’d post the most recent three emails demanding I pay extortion or else the criminals will allegedly post video of me that they captured while I allegedly masturbated while allegedly watching a porno site. I say “allegedly” although the criminals try to write as this is all…
US Court Seizes Lambo, Crypto Millions from Dead Dark Web Kingpin
Ada Hui reports: On Thursday, September 6, the Fresno Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California concluded a 14-month-long civil forfeiture case to seize assets and property that belonged to Alexandre Cazes, the Canadian national who committed suicide by hanging in Thai prison last summer – days after being arrested…
Cyber-Criminal Residing in Latvia Convicted for Role in Operation of Counter Antivirus Service “Scan4you”
May 16 – A federal jury today convicted a Latvian “non-citizen,” meaning a citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia, of three counts related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter antivirus service that helped computer hackers to determine whether the computer viruses and other malicious software they created would…
Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now
Danny O’Brien and Gennie Gebhart write: A group of European security researchers have released a warningabout a set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME. EFF has been in communication with the research team, and can confirm that these vulnerabilities pose an immediate risk to those using these tools for email communication, including the…