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In-Dev Ransomware forces you do to Survey before unlocking Computer
As if surveys aren't already annoying, a new ransomware utilizes the FileIce survey platform to force you to do surveys before unlocking your computer. First discovered by GData security researcher Karsten Hahn, this ransomware is currently in development and is most likely not being actively distributed at this time. [...]
In-Dev Ransomware forces you do to Survey before unlocking Computer
As if surveys aren't already annoying, a new ransomware utilizes the FileIce survey platform to force you to do surveys before unlocking your computer. First discovered by GData security researcher Karsten Hahn, this ransomware is currently in development and is most likely not being actively distributed at this time. [...]
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In-Dev Ransomware forces you do to Survey before unlocking Computer
As if surveys aren't already annoying, a new ransomware utilizes the FileIce survey platform to force you to do surveys before unlocking your computer. First discovered by GData security researcher Karsten Hahn, this ransomware is currently in development…
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Epic Fail: Ransomware Keys go for Sale to Researcher who already has Them
It is not uncommon for malware devs to communicate with security researchers to taunt them or praise them. It is a lot less common, though, when a ransomware developer reaches out to a security researcher and tries to sell them the encryption keys for their ransomware. Even better when the researcher already has the keys. [...]
Epic Fail: Ransomware Keys go for Sale to Researcher who already has Them
It is not uncommon for malware devs to communicate with security researchers to taunt them or praise them. It is a lot less common, though, when a ransomware developer reaches out to a security researcher and tries to sell them the encryption keys for their ransomware. Even better when the researcher already has the keys. [...]
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Epic Fail: Ransomware Keys go for Sale to Researcher who already has Them
It is not uncommon for malware devs to communicate with security researchers to taunt them or praise them. It is a lot less common, though, when a ransomware developer reaches out to a security researcher and tries to sell them the encryption keys for their…
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The Week in Ransomware - October 28 2016 - Locky, Angry Duck, and More!
Lots and lots of little ransomware and in-dev variants released this week. Of particular note is the quick release of two Locky variants that used .sh*t and then a day later the .thor extension for encrypted files. [...]
The Week in Ransomware - October 28 2016 - Locky, Angry Duck, and More!
Lots and lots of little ransomware and in-dev variants released this week. Of particular note is the quick release of two Locky variants that used .sh*t and then a day later the .thor extension for encrypted files. [...]
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The Week in Ransomware - October 28 2016 - Locky, Angry Duck, and More!
Lots and lots of little ransomware and in-dev variants released this week. Of particular note is the quick release of two Locky variants that used .sh*t and then a day later the .thor extension for encrypted files.
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Ransomware Infections you Do Not Want to Meet on Halloween
Being infected with Ransomware is scary enough, but there are certain ones that my kids and others helped me pick out that they think are downright creepy. So a little Halloween treat, I have put this article together to showcase what I, and others consider, the creepiest ransomware infections. [...]
Ransomware Infections you Do Not Want to Meet on Halloween
Being infected with Ransomware is scary enough, but there are certain ones that my kids and others helped me pick out that they think are downright creepy. So a little Halloween treat, I have put this article together to showcase what I, and others consider, the creepiest ransomware infections. [...]
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Ransomware Infections you Do Not Want to Meet on Halloween
Being infected with Ransomware is scary enough, but there are certain ones that my kids and others helped me pick out that they think are downright creepy. So a little Halloween treat, I have put this article together to showcase what I, and others consider…
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Cerber Ransomware 4.10 now shows the Version Number in Ransom Notes
Cerber Ransomware 4.1.0 was released recently that now displays its version number in the ransom note used as the Windows desktop background. In the past the only way to determine the version of the installer Cerber variant was to examine the extension appended to encrypted files. Now this info is easily available in the ransom note. [...]
Cerber Ransomware 4.10 now shows the Version Number in Ransom Notes
Cerber Ransomware 4.1.0 was released recently that now displays its version number in the ransom note used as the Windows desktop background. In the past the only way to determine the version of the installer Cerber variant was to examine the extension appended to encrypted files. Now this info is easily available in the ransom note. [...]
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Cerber Ransomware 4.10 now shows the Version Number in Ransom Notes
Cerber Ransomware 4.1.0 was released recently that now displays its version number in the ransom note used as the Windows desktop background. In the past the only way to determine the version of the installer Cerber variant was to examine the extension appended…
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Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Before Microsoft Can Issue Patch
There's a tiny scandal brewing among two of Silicon Valley's elites after Google engineers have publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting several Windows operating system versions before Microsoft could issue a patch to address the issue. [...]
Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Before Microsoft Can Issue Patch
There's a tiny scandal brewing among two of Silicon Valley's elites after Google engineers have publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting several Windows operating system versions before Microsoft could issue a patch to address the issue. [...]
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Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Before Microsoft Can Issue Patch
There's a tiny scandal brewing among two of Silicon Valley's elites after Google engineers have publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting several Windows operating system versions before Microsoft could issue a patch to address the issue.
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Google Chrome 53 Secretly Received a 15% Speed Boost on Windows PCs
Google revealed that Chrome had secretly received a speed boost on Windows since the start of September after its engineers had integrated a technology known as Profile Guided Optimization. [...]
Google Chrome 53 Secretly Received a 15% Speed Boost on Windows PCs
Google revealed that Chrome had secretly received a speed boost on Windows since the start of September after its engineers had integrated a technology known as Profile Guided Optimization. [...]
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Google Chrome 53 Secretly Received a 15% Speed Boost on Windows PCs
Google revealed that Chrome had secretly received a speed boost on Windows since the start of September after its engineers had integrated a technology known as Profile Guided Optimization.
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New TrickBot campaign Spamming Malicious Complaint.doc Attachments
A new global TrickBot SPAM campaign is underway that pretends to be a violation from the UK's Companies House. These SPAM emails contain a malicious word document that will download and execute TrickBot on the affected computer. [...]
New TrickBot campaign Spamming Malicious Complaint.doc Attachments
A new global TrickBot SPAM campaign is underway that pretends to be a violation from the UK's Companies House. These SPAM emails contain a malicious word document that will download and execute TrickBot on the affected computer. [...]
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New TrickBot campaign Spamming Malicious Complaint.doc Attachments
A new global TrickBot SPAM campaign is underway that pretends to be a violation from the UK's Companies House. These SPAM emails contain a malicious word document that will download and execute TrickBot on the affected computer.
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Microsoft Launches Teams, as Slack Fires Warning Shot via New York Times Back Page Ad
An open letter on the back page of The New York Times is a good way to sabotage your competitor's product launch. This was the strategy that Slack chose today when Microsoft announced in front of an audience in New York a new product called Microsoft Teams. [...]
Microsoft Launches Teams, as Slack Fires Warning Shot via New York Times Back Page Ad
An open letter on the back page of The New York Times is a good way to sabotage your competitor's product launch. This was the strategy that Slack chose today when Microsoft announced in front of an audience in New York a new product called Microsoft Teams. [...]
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Microsoft Launches Teams, as Slack Fires Warning Shot via New York Times Back Page Ad
An open letter on the back page of The New York Times is a good way to sabotage your competitor's product launch. This was the strategy that Slack chose today when Microsoft announced in front of an audience in New York a new product called Microsoft Teams.
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Bitcoin Retires Alert System amid Security Concerns
The Bitcoin project is retiring the "Alert" feature for showing informational messages and warnings to Bitcoin users and is citing security concerns as the main reason. [...]
Bitcoin Retires Alert System amid Security Concerns
The Bitcoin project is retiring the "Alert" feature for showing informational messages and warnings to Bitcoin users and is citing security concerns as the main reason. [...]
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Bitcoin Retires Alert System amid Security Concerns
The Bitcoin project is retiring the "Alert" feature for showing informational messages and warnings to Bitcoin users and is citing security concerns as the main reason.
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Battery Status API being Removed from Firefox due to Privacy Concerns
Mozilla has announced last week it was removing support for the Battery Status API, a feature that allows websites to detect the status of the user's battery level [...]
Battery Status API being Removed from Firefox due to Privacy Concerns
Mozilla has announced last week it was removing support for the Battery Status API, a feature that allows websites to detect the status of the user's battery level [...]
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Battery Status API being Removed from Firefox due to Privacy Concerns
Mozilla has announced last week it was removing support for the Battery Status API, a feature that allows websites to detect the status of the user's battery level
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Tech Support Scam Leverages Two-Year-Old Chrome Bug to Hang Browsers, Freeze PCs
Tech support scammers have weaponized a Chrome bug that has been reported in July 2014, but which Google engineers have yet to fix. [...]
Tech Support Scam Leverages Two-Year-Old Chrome Bug to Hang Browsers, Freeze PCs
Tech support scammers have weaponized a Chrome bug that has been reported in July 2014, but which Google engineers have yet to fix. [...]
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Tech Support Scam Leverages Two-Year-Old Chrome Bug to Hang Browsers, Freeze PCs
Tech support scammers have weaponized a Chrome bug that has been reported in July 2014, but which Google engineers have yet to fix. This bug allows the scammers to freeze your browser and potentially Windows.
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LastPass Is Now Free for Everyone, on Any Device
Joe Siegrist, Founder, VP & GM of LastPass announced yesterday that the company's main product, the LastPass password management service, will be free for everyone to use, on all devices. [...]
LastPass Is Now Free for Everyone, on Any Device
Joe Siegrist, Founder, VP & GM of LastPass announced yesterday that the company's main product, the LastPass password management service, will be free for everyone to use, on all devices. [...]
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LastPass Is Now Free for Everyone, on Any Device
Joe Siegrist, Founder, VP & GM of LastPass announced yesterday that the company's main product, the LastPass password management service, will be free for everyone to use, on all devices.
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Google Ban Spells the End of Controversial Chinese HTTPS Provider
Google has banned WoSign, a Chinese company that provides SSL/TLS certificates to support HTTPS traffic, after both Apple and Mozilla took similar steps in the past month. [...]
Google Ban Spells the End of Controversial Chinese HTTPS Provider
Google has banned WoSign, a Chinese company that provides SSL/TLS certificates to support HTTPS traffic, after both Apple and Mozilla took similar steps in the past month. [...]
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Google Ban Spells the End of Controversial Chinese HTTPS Provider
Google has banned WoSign, a Chinese company that provides SSL/TLS certificates to support HTTPS traffic, after both Apple and Mozilla took similar steps in the past month.
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Vanderbilt Researchers Create High-Performance Batteries from Scrap Metal
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have discovered that they can use a combination of common metals found in scrapyards and every household to create fully-working batteries that provide decent voltage and last through thousands of recharging cycles. [...]
Vanderbilt Researchers Create High-Performance Batteries from Scrap Metal
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have discovered that they can use a combination of common metals found in scrapyards and every household to create fully-working batteries that provide decent voltage and last through thousands of recharging cycles. [...]
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Vanderbilt Researchers Create High-Performance Batteries from Scrap Metal
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have discovered that they can use a combination of common metals found in scrapyards and every household to create fully-working batteries that provide decent voltage and last through thousands of recharging cycles.
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Smash! Ransomware is Cute rather than Dangerous
A new malware program was discovered that calls itself Smash! Ransomware and uses a cute image of the Super Mushroom from Super Mario Bros holding a knife. [...]
Smash! Ransomware is Cute rather than Dangerous
A new malware program was discovered that calls itself Smash! Ransomware and uses a cute image of the Super Mushroom from Super Mario Bros holding a knife. [...]
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Smash! Ransomware is Cute rather than Dangerous
A new malware program was discovered that calls itself Smash! Ransomware and uses a cute image of the Super Mushroom from Super Mario Bros holding a knife.
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Windows 10 Insider Build 14959 adds Mobile to the Unified Update Platform
Today Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for PC and Mobile to Insiders on the fast ring. This release adds the Mobile build to the Unified Update Platform and adds display scaling to virtual machines. Other than that, though, this release is mostly bug fixes and improvements. [...]
Windows 10 Insider Build 14959 adds Mobile to the Unified Update Platform
Today Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for PC and Mobile to Insiders on the fast ring. This release adds the Mobile build to the Unified Update Platform and adds display scaling to virtual machines. Other than that, though, this release is mostly bug fixes and improvements. [...]
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Windows 10 Insider Build 14959 adds Mobile to the Unified Update Platform
Today Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for PC and Mobile to Insiders on the fast ring. This release adds the Mobile build to the Unified Update Platform and adds display scaling to virtual machines. Other than that, though, this…
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Arizona Man Arrested for Attempting to Hack Over 75 US Universities
US authorities have arrested Jonathan Powell, 29, of Phoenix, Arizona, for hacking over 1,000 email accounts for at least two US universities and attempting to hack email accounts for 75 other universities across the country. [...]
Arizona Man Arrested for Attempting to Hack Over 75 US Universities
US authorities have arrested Jonathan Powell, 29, of Phoenix, Arizona, for hacking over 1,000 email accounts for at least two US universities and attempting to hack email accounts for 75 other universities across the country. [...]
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Arizona Man Arrested for Attempting to Hack Over 75 US Universities
US authorities have arrested Jonathan Powell, 29, of Phoenix, Arizona, for hacking over 1,000 email accounts for at least two US universities and attempting to hack email accounts for 75 other universities across the country.
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Gamers Face Waves of Booby-Trapped Game Cheats That Steal Login Credentials
Security researchers have come across a series of Minecraft money adders that promise to give users free in-game coins, but end up stealing their credentials. [...]
Gamers Face Waves of Booby-Trapped Game Cheats That Steal Login Credentials
Security researchers have come across a series of Minecraft money adders that promise to give users free in-game coins, but end up stealing their credentials. [...]
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Gamers Face Waves of Booby-Trapped Game Cheats That Steal Login Credentials
Security researchers have come across a series of Minecraft money adders that promise to give users free in-game coins, but end up stealing their credentials.
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu Core 16, a Secure OS for Today's Woefully Insecure IoT Devices
Canonical announced yesterday the availability of Ubuntu Core 16, a slimmed down version of the Ubuntu operating system that wants to be the de-facto OS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which currently have a bad reputation when it comes to delivering security updates, something at which Ubuntu is a lot better. [...]
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Core 16, a Secure OS for Today's Woefully Insecure IoT Devices
Canonical announced yesterday the availability of Ubuntu Core 16, a slimmed down version of the Ubuntu operating system that wants to be the de-facto OS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which currently have a bad reputation when it comes to delivering security updates, something at which Ubuntu is a lot better. [...]
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu Core 16, a Secure OS for Today's Woefully Insecure IoT Devices
Canonical announced yesterday the availability of Ubuntu Core 16, a slimmed down version of the Ubuntu operating system that wants to be the de-facto OS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which currently have a bad reputation when it comes to delivering…