Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag – Krebs on Security
Image: Shutterstock. Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential...
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Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two “zero-day”...
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U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group – Krebs on Security
The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the...
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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims – Krebs on Security
Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage....
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Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years – Krebs on Security
A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into...
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FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data – Krebs on Security
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers — including...
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Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme – Krebs on Security
The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine...
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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina? – Krebs on Security
For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators...
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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak – Krebs on Security
The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that...
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Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense – Krebs on Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense,...
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Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers – Krebs on Security
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48...
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April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes – Krebs on Security
If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently — like total solar eclipse rare — instead of just creeping up on...
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