Russian national confesses to biggest bank hack in US history
A Russian national has admitted to carrying out the largest-known computer hack on a US bank. His 2014 breach of JPMorgan Chase generated hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit …
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IE zero-day under active attack gets emergency patch
Microsoft has released two unscheduled security updates, one of which patches a critical Internet Explorer vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild.
The IE vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1367…
Busy North Korean hackers have new malware to target ATMs
Enlarge / ATM in the Indian city of Jaipur.
Hackers widely believed to work for North Korea’s hermit government have developed a new strain of malware that steals data used …
Coder deletes open source add-on for Chef in protest over ICE contract
Enlarge / Open source ingredients borked some Chef users’ systems because of an ICE protest by one developer.
On September 17, Seth Vargo—a former employee of Chef, …
Yahoo data-breach settlement: You’ll get $100, if you’re lucky
Enlarge / A Yahoo logo on a smartphone.
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People who had Yahoo accounts between 2012 and 2016 can now apply for a cash payment of …
Defense media tweet threatening Area 51 “raiders” pulled, DOD apologizes
Enlarge / The photo posted in an DVIDS tweet joking about what would happen to anyone storming Area 51 this past weekend.
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The Defense Department’s Defense Video …
Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in ongoing privacy investigation
Facebook—the social media company that has been under intense public criticism for not adequately safeguarding the personal information of its 2 billion users—has suspended tens of thousands of apps for …
Medicine show: Crown Sterling demos 256-bit RSA key-cracking at private event
Enlarge / Robert Grant, Crown Sterling CEO and founder, emcee’d a demonstration of crypto-cracking at an event yesterday. Cryptographers were not impressed.
Crown Sterling, via YouTube
On September 19, in …
iOS 13 ships with known lockscreen bypass flaw that exposes contacts
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Apple released iOS 13 with a bunch of new features. But it also released the new OS with something else: a bug disclosed seven days ago that …
Payment card thieves hack Click2Gov bill paying portals in 8 cities
In 2017 and 2018, hackers compromised systems running the Click2Gov self-service bill-payment portal in dozens of cities across the United States, a feat that compromised 300,000 payment cards and generated …