New Protections for Food Benefits Stolen by Skimmers – Krebs on Security
Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can’t yet enforce: The right to...
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of...
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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group – Krebs on Security
Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a...
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KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach...
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Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France – Krebs on Security
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for...
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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days – Krebs on Security
On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to...
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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty – Krebs on Security
Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of...
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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts – Krebs on Security
T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as...
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Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again. – Krebs on Security
Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or...
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from...
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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports – Krebs on Security
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer...
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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in...
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