The computer said the following (Image below) The customer did not actually give out money, but the person on the phone was very cryptic, yet was saying your computer is bad, you have to return it etc. (Customer just bought computer-2 months ago) It says www.repair-warnings.com/computerHelp.html Please do not go to this site, as it … Read more
twitch chat dupes its users into clicking on free “game items” (F-Secure story) Thanks F-Secure. The above are samples that show items to be given away, except if somebody clicks on them some malicious software(malware) is placed on the user computer. From there the malware steals all the items in your game account. … Read more
Aza Raskin describes a new style of attack If you also click on his link, you will see it in action. The initial Aza Raskin page: (I am copying and pasting the screenshots here) Once you click on a page it changes your tab to a “Gmail tab” favicon (the little icon on … Read more
KrebsonSecurity has the story again: “KrebsOnSecurity also heard from an employee at a much larger bank on the West Coast that lost more than $300,000 in two hours today to PIN fraud on multiple debit cards that had all been used recently at Home Depot. The manager said the bad guys called the customer service folks … Read more
CIO magazine has the 11 steps of the hack Step 3 exploit a web vulnerability should have been remediated, although the hackers were in the network they would have had a harder time to attack. Step 5-6 Stealing a token from Domain admins , although the password hash may have been removed somehow, the Domain … Read more