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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
FSB hackers drop files online
Russia is working to de-anonymize TOR. A hacking group that distributed files stolen from a Russian contractor to the media last week has published some of the documents online.
IRS Reminds Tax Professionals: Create a Data Security Plan
Original release date: July 24, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ...
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First I must confess that I am a huge Capital One fan. As far as I am concerned, they do it right. Good alerting system, great customer service, heck, great products.
So I was a bit dismayed to hear they were the latest victim of a data breach. But as the details were released, it seems the attack was an insider job, and ...
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Phishing is getting better and harder to detect. One new trend is using hijacked business email accounts to pivot further into a business, by using the built in trust of the company’s email domain to send phishing emails that appear to come from coworkers. These phishing emails from trusted sources are used to hijack other email accounts in the same company. This ...
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Social engineers have many tricks up their sleeves, and we have covered many of them in previous articles. The biggest trick is phishing emails, of course, coupled with replica landing pages on hijacked websites. Other methods include phone calls, such as fake tech support calls. There are texting hoaxes, called smishing. There are fake, cloned, or hijacked Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram ...
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