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Security News for the Week Ending January 21, 2022

Russia Arrests Some REvil Gang Members At this point we don’t know who they ticked off, but Putin’s goons arrested 14 people and seized 426 million Roubles (about $5.5 million), $600,000 USD, 500,000 euros, computers and 20 cars. These guys definitely will not be getting a Christmas card from Vlad next year. Credit: Yahoo News […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 24, 2020

Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 1, 2019

GDPR Gone Crazy I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat! According to the European Commission, Europe’s data protection regulators received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches in the first 8 months of GDPR. At the same time businesses reported over 41,000 breaches. But regulators only opened 255 investigations. Many of the complaints […]

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DHS Issues Emergency Directive 19-01 (DNS)

Homeland Security’s newly named agency – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to executive branch agencies – many of which have personnel on furlough – regarding a DNS hijacking issue. The issue is not limited to agencies and every company and private individual that owns one or more Internet domains […]

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Phishing? Pharming? Don’t these guys know how to spell?

Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming.  When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com.  What if it really sent you to badfoo.com?  Badfoo.com […]

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