Posts for category: US News

Home Depot and the Difficulties of Post-Breach Settlements

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20160315/NEWS06/160319915/atlanta-based-home-depot-inc-19-5-million-settlement-deal-may-set Posted: March 15, 2016 Home Depot's breach in 2014 ...

New York Times and BBC amongst numerous sites hit by ransomware malvertising

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/16/major-sites-new-york-times-bbc-ransomware-malvertising Posted March 16, 2016 A ransomware campaign directed at U.S. users was ...

Attackers Making Use Of PowerShell and Macros for Malicious Activity

Sources: http://www.securityweek.com/powerware-ransomware-abuses-powershell-office-macros http://www.securityweek.com/powersniff-malware-attacks-abuse-macros-powershell Goes over Sandbox and ...

Anonymous Claims To Have Published Trump’s Private Info As Part of #OpWhiteRose

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/45435/hacking/anonymous-trump-personal-info.html Posted March 19, 2016 Anonymous has decided that Trump has gone too far with his political remarks. ...

New USB malware that steals data – USB Thief

Source: http://www.scmagazine.com/new-usb-based-data-stealing-malware-detected-in-wild/article/485140/ Win32/PSW.Stealer.NAI aka USB Thief is a data stealing type malware that is hard to detect ...

MedStar Health hit by virus

Source: http://time.com/4274220/fbi-computer-virus-washington/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter  The FBI is currently investigating a virus that has affected MedStar Health, a major Washington area ...

FBI managed to hack iPhone without Apple’s help

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/03/28/apple-justice-department-farook/82354040/ The FBI was able to hack the phone of terrorist Farook and his wife recently. The FBI ...

The Importance of Information Governance in Information Security

Source: http://www.darkreading.com/operations/why-marrying-infosec-and-info-governance-boosts-security-capabilities/a/d-id/1324572?_mc=RSS_DR_EDT The article begins with the importance of data ...

Phishing for W2’s

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/03/07/phishers-tricking-payroll-pros-sharing-employee-data/ A word of warning to payroll and accounting employees, be careful of phishing emails ...

Dell open sources DCEPT honeypot tool

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/03/08/dell-open-sources-dcept-honeypot-tool-detecting-network-intrusions/ Dell SecureWorks researchers have developed a honeypot tool for Windows ...