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A better security strategy than ‘know your enemy’: Know your co-workers

01

Mar

2017

Cyberthieves today know that it’s better to be sneaky and crafty than forceful. To be even more blunt, they know that it’s better to trick you into doing their work than to break in and do it themselves. That trickery starts with ever-more-subtle ways to get you to click on an email attachment. A recent […]

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Ransomware ‘customer support’ chat reveals criminals’ ruthlessness

24

Feb

2017

Ransomware criminals chatting up victims, offering to delay deadlines, showing how to obtain Bitcoin, dispensing the kind of customer support that consumers lust for from their cable and mobile plan providers, PC and software makers? What’s not to love? Finnish security vendor F-Secure yesterday released 34 pages of transcripts from the group chat used by […]

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LTE vulnerabilities could allow attackers to reroute calls to malicious base station

31

Oct

2016

A researcher from Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 has revealed details on a vulnerability in 4G LTE networks that, if exploited, could allow hackers to use fake, malicious base stations to perform man-in-the-middle attacks. According to The Register, researcher Wanqiao Zhang presented her findings on the vulnerabilities last weekend at the Ruxcon Security Conference […]

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