Thu, May 23 2019

I lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24-hour time span in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account. It has been four days since the incident and I'm gutted. I have zero appetite; my sleep is…

It happened again. Google announced today that it's the latest tech giant to have accidentally stored user passwords unprotected in plaintext. GSuite users, pay attention. Google says that the bug affected 'a small percentage of GSuite users,'…

As director of cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has defended civil liberties on the internet since 1990, Eva Galperin identifies and exposes threats to the privacy of journalists, activists, and others online. That includes…

BleepingComputer – Lawrence Abrams – May 21

A decryptor for the JSWorm 2.0 Ransomware has been released by Emsisoft this week that allows victims to decrypt their files for free. If you become infected with JSWorm 2.0, do not pay the ransom and instead follow the instructions below. It is…

The most notable vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft last week addressed an input validation flaw in the Remote Desktop Service. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would send a specially crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) request to the…