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Gone: Russian Central Bank hacked; $31 million stolen
Beware of These Cyber Threats in 2017
Israeli News Channels’ Telecast Hacked; replaced with Muslims’ call to prayer
Tor Browser Impacted by Firefox’s Zero-day Vulnerability
Fry all the things! USB Kill zaps tons of computing devices
iPhone security is so good that police had to ‘mug’ a suspect to get his data
‘Toyota dealer stole my wife’s saucy snaps from phone, emailed them to a swingers website’
‘Avalanche’ botnet takes a tumble after Europol cyber-bust
New iOS lockscreen bypass renders Activation Lock useless

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Avalanche takedown: Check if you are safe

Earlier this week coordinated law enforcement action took down the Avalanche fast-flux network. ESET has been assisting in the cleanup. The post Avalanche takedown: Check if you are safe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

Google Fixes 12 High-Severity Flaws In Chrome Browser
News in brief: meals on robot wheels; Mirai blamed for new attacks; police bypass iPhone encryption
Russia accuses hostile foreign powers of plot to undermine its banks
Highly Sensitive Data of Explosives-Handling Company Leaked Online

  Between a handful of high profile network hacks and the steady stream of ransomware attacks, the last week of November didn’t pull any punches in the constant sparring match that is cybersecurity. In the wake of headlines about a US Navy breach, large scale network outages across Germany, and more, internet users across the […]

Gooligan Malware Breaches 1 Million Google Accounts
Dorkbot: Life after disruption

A year ago on 2nd December 2015, a collaboration between major cybersecurity firms, law enforcement and software providers – including ESET and Microsoft – successfully managed to disrupt Dorkbot, a malware family that had been infiltrating systems worldwide for over four years. Since its detection in April 2011, Dorkbot had caused numerous problems for businesses […]

Sh… IoT just got real: Mirai botnet attacks targeting multiple ISPs
Would Facebook or Twitter dare to ban Trump? [Poll]
How Windows 10 data collection trades privacy for security
7 security predictions for 2017
TalkTalk and Post Office customers lose internet access as routers hijacked
Microsoft’s ‘Samaritan’ refuses help to hackers doing Win 10 recon
Hackers waste Xbox One, PS4, MacBook, Pixel, with USB zapper
Shamoon malware returns to again wipe Saudi-owned computers

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Online criminals iced as cops bury malware-spewing Avalanche

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Rule 41 Opponents Vow to Fight Government’s New Hacking Powers
Europol cop took terror dossier home, flashed it to the web accidentally
Cut through the FUD in online security tips
AWS tries to protect its customers from DDoS attacks with new service
Android malware steals access to more than 1 million Google accounts
News in brief: Pi bakes in security; net neutrality fears; Rule 41 delay fails
Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users
Gooligan hooligans have compromised at least one million Google accounts
Who’s responsible for data compliance? 25% of execs don’t know
Firefox and Tor users update now: 0-day exploit in the wild
Hull surfers cut off by router attack
RAF Club members emailed fake invoices. Has it been hacked?
Honest but uncomplimentary reviews protected as Congress outlaws contract gag clauses
Security Sessions: Lessons learned from the Dyn DNS attacks
Uber now collecting location data even after you leave a driver’s car
Under attack: How hackers could remotely target your pacemaker
2017 security predictions
Firefox zero-day: Mozilla races to patch bug used to attack Tor browser users
900,000 Deutsche Telekom Routers Disabled by Massive Cyber Attack
10 key security terms devops ninjas need to know
Clients say they’ll take their money and run if service hacked – poll
Tor users at risk of having their anonymity stripped via attacks exploiting Firefox zero-day
From the ‘everybody should have an off-site backup’ department…
Fatal flaws in ten pacemakers make for Denial of Life attacks
SHIFT + F10, Linux gets you Windows 10’s cleartext BitLocker key
UCam247 tells El Reg most of its cams aren’t vulnerable to GET vuln
Google’s Project Zero tweaking Microsoft, because it did fix a bug

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Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

  The sheer number of cyberattacks lately led us to this question: which states are at the greatest risk of a cyberattack? Naturally, we took it a step further. We looked into data on population and population density in an effort to find correlations. Which are the most infected states? Opening up our list in […]

Wow. What a shock. The FBI will get its bonus hacking powers after all
Microsoft Silently Fixes Kernel Bug That Led to Chrome Sandbox Bypass
Gooligan Attack on Android: Millions of Google Accounts Compromised
10% off Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera – Deal Alert
I love how San Francisco’s metro system responded to its ransomware attacker
26,500 National Lottery accounts accessed by cybercriminals

National lottery operator Camelot tells players to change their passwords after thousands of accounts have been accessed by cybercriminals. The post 26,500 National Lottery accounts accessed by cybercriminals appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

Bypassing BitLocker during an upgrade
Facebook users want to continue posting from beyond the grave
News in brief: leniency urged for Snowden; crowdsourced suggestions for Facebook; Berners-Lee slams ‘Snoopers’ Charter’

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

German Minister Proposes Data Protection Law Aimed at Limiting Privacy Rights
Tor Patched Against Zero Day Under Attack
Hackers reuse passwords to access 26,500 National Lottery accounts
Real threats for business: Mischief, extortion and million-dollar frauds
Android-rooting Gooligan malware infects 1 million devices
Computer Systems at Carleton University Shut Down due to Ransomware
America wonders what path Trump will tread on cybersecurity
The new Mirai malware strain has gone beyond Deutsche Telekom
Cryptography: How something nerdy went mainstream

Cryptography is one of the fundamental aspects of information security. We look at it through the lens of the silver screen. The post Cryptography: How something nerdy went mainstream appeared first on We Live Security.

UCL snags head of Europol for a seminar on privacy
New Cerber Variant Leverages Tor2Web Proxies, Google Redirects
UK cops spot webcam ‘sextortion’ plots: How vics can hit stop
IoT camera turned into a zombie in under two minutes
UK National Lottery data breach: Fingers crossed – it might not be you
Hackers access National Lottery accounts – do you have your fingers crossed?
‘Tesco Bank’s major vulnerability is its ownership by Tesco,’ claims ex-employee
Spam campaign tiptoes via Tor to deliver Cerber ransomware
Speaking in Tech: The limitations of Android’s crypto
UK’s new Snoopers’ Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

PayPal proffers patch for OAuth app hack hole
GET pwned: Web CCTV cams can be hijacked by single HTTP request
Drive-by web nasty unmasks Tor Browser users, Mozilla dashes to patch zero-day vuln

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9296

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 0.6.4

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix nfs_cleanup security race and permissions (rhbz#1395040).

LinuxSecurity.com: https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005

Another Canadian uni hit by ransomware, students told to keep Windows PCs away

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 0.6.4

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix nfs_cleanup security race and permissions (rhbz#1395040).

LinuxSecurity.com: https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005