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Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Krebs on Security

DomainInvesting.com’s Elliot Silver picked up on the change and got a statement from Matt Barrie , the CEO of freelancer.com , which owns escrow.com. Then I heard back from Matt Barrie, who said it wasn’t anyone at escrow.com that got phished. Image: Escrow.com. The message at servicenow-godaddy[.]com

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

Canadian authorities describe him as “the most prolific cybercriminal we’ve identified in Canada,” but so far they’ve released few other details about the investigation or the defendant. authorities dubbed “Project CODA.” Matthew Filbert, in 2016. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot.

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Report: Brazil must do more to encrypt, back up data

Malwarebytes

When networks are compromised and systems are locked up, victims with effective backups can try to restore their systems to a point in time before the attack. Backups are an essential backstop that can help against several forms of attack, as well as mistakes and mishaps. The most obvious one of those would be ransomware.

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The importance of backing up

Malwarebytes

Ransomware authors have been attacking all sorts of business verticals for years and anything from infrastructure to medical systems can be targets. There are many tales of law enforcement and hospitals locked out of mission critical files and systems, leading to potentially life threatening delays and scheduled operation setbacks.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Matt O’Neill is the Secret Service agent who in February 2013 successfully executed a scheme to lure Ngo out of Vietnam and into Guam, where the young hacker was arrested and sent to the mainland U.S. guy told Ngo, ‘Hey, you’re treading on my turf, and I decided to lock you out. to face prosecution. . “The U.K.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

Krebs on Security

guy told Ngo, ‘Hey, you’re treading on my turf, and I decided to lock you out. But as long as you’re paying a vig through me, your access won’t go away’,” the Secret Service’s Matt O’Neill recalled. After several months of conversing with his apparent U.K.-based

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

This is the author's panel here at DEF CON 18. And in this episode, I'm discussing some of the individual villages you'll find at DEF CON in particular I'm going to be talking to the leaders of four villages, the car hacking village, the lock picking village, the ICS village and the aerospace Village. This is a bytes and bullets.

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