Browsing the "digitalmunition" Tag

Firefox now shows what telemetry data it’s collecting about you | Digitalmunition

February 1st, 2020 📆 | 2993 Views ⚑

Image: Digitalmunition There is now a special page in the Firefox browser where users can see what telemetry data Mozilla

Tagged with: about • collecting • digitalmunition • firefox • shows • telemetry

Ransomware hits TV & radio news monitoring service TVEyes | Digitalmunition

January 31st, 2020 📆 | 1778 Views ⚑

A ransomware infection has brought down TVEyes, a company that manages a popular platform for monitoring TV and radio news

Tagged with: digitalmunition • monitoring • radio • ransomware • service • tveyes

Avast winds down Jumpshot, cites user data sale privacy concerns | Digitalmunition

January 30th, 2020 📆 | 7145 Views ⚑

Malware: Hacking campaign linked to Iran Researchers at Recorded Future have linked trojan malware intrusions and espionage to a state-backed

Tagged with: avast • cites • concerns • digitalmunition • jumpshot • privacy • winds

New web service can notify companies when their employees get phished | Digitalmunition

January 29th, 2020 📆 | 3404 Views ⚑

Starting today, companies across the world have a new free web service at their disposal that will automatically send out

Tagged with: companies • digitalmunition • employees • notify • phished • service • their

Canadian insurer paid for ransomware decryptor. Now it’s hunting the scum down • DigitalMunition

January 29th, 2020 📆 | 3789 Views ⚑

Tagged with: canadian • decryptor • digitalmunition • hunting • insurer • ransomware

‘DEF CON cancelled’ joke cancelled after DEF CON China actually cancelled • DigitalMunition

January 28th, 2020 📆 | 6883 Views ⚑

DEF CON is cancelled. For real this time. DEF CON China, that is. The Middle Kingdom edition of the computer

Tagged with: actually • after • cancelled • china • digitalmunition

Zoom meetups’ info leaked out through eavesdrop hole • DigitalMunition

January 28th, 2020 📆 | 5976 Views ⚑

Tagged with: digitalmunition • eavesdrop • leaked • meetups • through

Teenagers today. Can’t take them anywhere, eh? 18-year-old kid accused of $50m SIM-swap cryptocurrency heist • DigitalMunition

January 25th, 2020 📆 | 6466 Views ⚑

Roundup Here comes a summary of this week’s computer security news beyond what we’ve already covered. Montreal youth blamed for

Tagged with: accused • anywhere • cryptocurrency • digitalmunition • heist • teenagers • today

Ubisoft sues handful of gamers for DDoSing Rainbow Six: Siege • DigitalMunition

January 20th, 2020 📆 | 6887 Views ⚑

Game developer Ubisoft has lodged a claim against the owners of a website that allegedly sells DDoS attacks against the

Tagged with: ddosing • digitalmunition • gamers • handful • rainbow • siege • ubisoft

LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them • DigitalMunition

January 20th, 2020 📆 | 6721 Views ⚑

Updated Password manager LastPass appears to have had a big night out on Friday, to the point where the service

Tagged with: access • digitalmunition • lastpass • passwords • securely • stores • users

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details • DigitalMunition

January 18th, 2020 📆 | 5168 Views ⚑

At 1030 on April 27, 2019, four unidentified individuals attempted to rob a Brinks armored truck parked outside of Michaels,

Tagged with: catch • details • digitalmunition • geofence • google • thief • warrant

Citrix gateway hole mitigations don’t work for older kit • DigitalMunition

January 17th, 2020 📆 | 7558 Views ⚑

Vid Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix

Tagged with: citrix • digitalmunition • gateway • mitigations • older

Spanking the pirates of corporate security? Try a Plimsoll • DigitalMunition

January 16th, 2020 📆 | 4233 Views ⚑

Column On New Year’s Eve 2019, the good ship Travelex struck the iceberg of ransomware. That’s not a good metaphor,

Tagged with: corporate • digitalmunition • pirates • plimsoll • security • spanking

Give your fledgling Brit biz a boost with Tech Nation’s free Cyber 2.0 school • DigitalMunition

January 16th, 2020 📆 | 4658 Views ⚑

Promo If you need to get your new IT security company noticed, the Tech Nation Cyber programme is back, opening

Tagged with: boost • cyber • digitalmunition • fledgling • nation • school

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday — DigitalMunition

January 14th, 2020 📆 | 2190 Views ⚑

Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security

Tagged with: ahead • cryptic • digitalmunition • first • patch • rumblings • tuesday

Phishing for Apples, Bobbing for Links — DigitalMunition

January 13th, 2020 📆 | 8585 Views ⚑

Anyone searching for a primer on how to spot clever phishing links need look no further than those targeting customers

Tagged with: apples • bobbing • digitalmunition • links • phishing

Alleged Member of Neo-Nazi Swatting Group Charged — DigitalMunition

January 11th, 2020 📆 | 2212 Views ⚑

Federal investigators on Friday arrested a Virginia man accused of being part of a neo-Nazi group that targeted hundreds of

Tagged with: alleged • charged • digitalmunition • group • member • swatting

Cisco patches multiple vulnerabilities | DigitalMunition

January 9th, 2020 📆 | 2203 Views ⚑

Home > Security News > Vulnerabilities Cisco released 14 security advisories on January 8 with two being rated as having

Tagged with: cisco • digitalmunition • multiple • patches • vulnerabilities

What if everyone just said ‘Nah’ to tracking? • DigitalMunition

January 8th, 2020 📆 | 5887 Views ⚑

Column Sitting quietly in the upper corner of my browser’s address bar, a counter rises as Disconnect thwarts requests to

Tagged with: digitalmunition • everyone • tracking

Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords — DigitalMunition

January 7th, 2020 📆 | 8446 Views ⚑

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to

Tagged with: angles • digitalmunition • passwords • persistence • phish • tricky