Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Leaked files from cybercrime group Conti show it started building a crypto payment platform, a social network—and even had plans for a casino.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside the Conti ransomware group. This is what they reveal.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:04:04 +0000
Telegram polls. Unusual demands. The latest extortion gang is on an unorthodox rampage.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:56:00 -0700
There has been a rapid spike in demand for VPN services in Russia and Ukraine since the invasion began almost three weeks ago. People in both nations seek online freedoms as offline misery intensifies, and want to see through the fog of conflict.
A VPN (virtual private network) service creates an encrypted tunnel between users and the servers they interact with. This helps secure the traffic to protect people from being identified, tracked, and surveilled.
Simon Migliano, Head of Research at Top10VPN, explained that Russians began seeking out VPN services before the conflict began. But demand has accelerated as it continues and authorities become more repressive there.
Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:56:00 -0700
Where does your software come from?
That’s one of the questions online users at AskWoody.com have asked in recent weeks. Obviously, this comes up as the world sees what’s going on in Ukraine. For many years, one security software vendor in particular was tagged as possibly having Russian ties — and as far back as 2017, the US Government banned the use of Kaspersky antivirus over fears the security software could spy on defense contractors for Russia.
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:29:17 +0000
Plus: A satellite hack, ransomware extradition, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Eric Ravenscraft| Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000
We bust the biggest misconceptions about what “minting” actually means.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 05:10:00 -0800
March brings us a solid set of updates from Microsoft for Windows, Microsoft Office, Exchange, and Edge (Chromium), but no critical issues requiring a “Patch Now” release schedule (though Microsoft Exchange will require some technical effort this month). We have published some testing guidelines, with a focus on printing, remote desktop over VPN connections, and server-based networking changes. We also recommend testing your Windows installer packages with a specific focus on roll-back and uninstall functionality.
You can find more information about the risk of deploying these Patch Tuesday updates with this useful infographic. And, if you are looking for more information on .NET updates, there is a great post from Microsoft that highlights this month’s changes.
Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000
YouTube still draws a hard line on Trump’s rigged election claims. Two years later, it doesn’t hold up.
Read moreCredit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:56:00 -0800
Phishing, those malicious e-mails that pretend to be legitimate messages, has been a problem since Canter and Siegel launched the first spam campaign in 1994. (Mea culpa — it seems they learned about this thing called the Internet from some of my articles.) Today, spam, while still annoying, is the least of our e-mail troubles. In addition to invading Ukraine, Russian agents are now doing their best to invade our IT systems via phishing e-mails.