Congressional Democrats have punted on the question of impeaching Donald Trump. The Mueller report makes that calculus much harder. This post appeared first on WIRED Security Author: Garrett M. Graff
Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump
Zero-day XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Can Let Attackers Steal Files, System Info
By: Ranga Duraisamy and Kassiane Westell (Vulnerability Researchers) A zero-day extensible markup language (XML) external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) was recently disclosed by security researcher John Page. An attacker can
Insecure Ride App Database Leaks Data of 300K Iranian Drivers
A researcher said that millions of records were leaking 300,000 Tap30 drivers’ names, ID numbers and phone numbers. This post appeared first on ThreatPost – The First Stop for Security News Author: Lindsey O’Donnell
Russia Hacked Clinton’s Computers Five Hours After Trump’s Call
Mueller report finds that in July 2016, after then-candidate Donald Trump publicly called for Russia to “find the 30,000 emails,” Russian agents targeted Hillary Clinton’s personal office with cyberattacks. This post appeared first on Dark
APT34 Toolset, Victim Data Leaked via Telegram
For the last month, an unknown individual or group has been sharing data and hacking tools belonging to Iranian hacker group APT34. This post appeared first on Dark Reading Author: Dark Reading Staff
The Week in Ransomware – April 19th 2019 – RobbinHood, Samba, and More
This week introduced a new ransomware player that is targeting companies called RobbinHood. This ransomware recently took down the City of Greenville’s computer systems and offers two different ransom payments; a price per computer or one
The New Microsoft Edge Sometimes Impersonates Other Browsers
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge will impersonate other browsers depending on the site being visited. This is may be done for compatibility reasons, like properly rendering pages or how video will be streamed and played
Facebook: we logged 100x more Instagram plaintext passwords than we thought
Facebook has updated ‘tens of thousands of plaintext Instagram passwords ended up in logfile’ to say it was more like a million. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: Paul Ducklin
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Mobile Security Versus Desktop and Laptop Security: Is There Even a Difference Anymore?
Do you remember your first mobile phone, and the newfound feelings of connectedness and convenience that came with it? I was one of the first in my circles to have a cellular phone. One of
‘NamPoHyu Virus’ Ransomware Targets Samba Servers and Encrypt Files Remotely
New ransomware spotted NamPoHyu Virus or MegaLocker virus targeting the remote samba servers in a unique way. The common way of delivering ransomware is through email attachments or by compromising the victim’s network and ransomware
Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Users Password in Plain Text
Facebook revealed last month that they stored tens of millions of Facebook password in plain text including thousand of the Instagram password instead of masking it as a human-readable format. Now its worse than earlier
Google to Block Logins from Embedded Browser Frameworks
To increase protection against man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, Google in June will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks, which are used with some forms of phishing. […] This post appeared first on Bleeping Computer Author: Ionut