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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? .” ru in 2008.

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U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

Krebs on Security

Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. million stolen passwords and other credentials, and that it has shared this information with two websites that let users check to see if their credentials were exposed: Have I Been Pwned , and a “Check Your Hack” website erected by the Dutch National Police.

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The ticking time bomb of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

DoublePulsar

toasty Something curious has been happened over the last few months — more and more ransomware group victims have Outlook Web App facing the internet. I contacted a few of the ransomware victim organisations with Exchange and not much else presented to the internet and asked what the deal was. Obviously, almost nobody replied.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker introduces encrypted flash drive — with key pad

The Last Watchdog

Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. This could be in high security areas, relating to the government or military, or you might be in different countries, where secure Internet connections are not available. LW: Makes sense.

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Episode 247: Into the AppSec Trenches with Robinhood CSO Caleb Sima

The Security Ledger

The “web” has, in the space of 30 years, transformed from a funky little corner of the Internet full of pictures and text to become the bedrock of modern commerce. As Mobile Fraud Rises, The Password Persists. These days, every business is online and a huge – and growing – chunk of business activity is transacted online.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker extends products, services to encrypt data on portable storage devices

The Last Watchdog

Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs. That’s why DataLocker built encryption into the storage device and made it accessible with password authentication. Talk more soon.