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Instagram Testing Anti-Squatting Feature that Locks Old Usernames
Instagram is currently testing a new feature designed to automatically lock usernames for 14 days after the owners switch to a new handle, as discovered by mobile researcher Jane Manchun Wong in an Alpha version of the platform's Android app.
- March 20, 2019
- 07:18 PM
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Putty 0.71 Fixes Weakness That Allows Fake Login Prompts
The latest version of PuTTY SSH and Telnet client adds protection against spoofing the terminal authentication prompt to steal login info. Recently released, the update comes after a 20-month hiatus and fixes a total of eight security issues.
- March 20, 2019
- 06:02 PM
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Lithuanian Pleads Guilty to Stealing $100 Million From Google, Facebook
A Lithuanian man pleaded guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and three counts of money laundering, and faces a maximum of 30 years in jail after tricking Google and Facebook employees into wiring over $100 million into bank accounts he controlled.
- March 20, 2019
- 04:31 PM
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KB4493132 Update Notifies Windows 7 Users of End of Support Date
A new Windows 7 update called KB4493132 has been released and is used to display notifications that remind users that Windows 7 will reach its end of life starting on January 14th, 2020. These notifications contain a link that goes to a Microsoft page suggesting that users upgrade to Windows 10.
- March 20, 2019
- 03:48 PM
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362 (19H1) Fixes Autoupdate of Apps
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362 (19H1) to Insiders in the Fast ring. This was released to offer a quick fix for a bug that was preventing the Microsoft Store from automatically updating installed apps.
- March 20, 2019
- 02:25 PM
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1,600 Hotel Guests Secretly Live Streamed to 4,000+ Subscribers
Four individuals from South Korea were detained for secretly recording, live streaming, and selling spycam videos of 1600 motel guests between November 24 and March 2, with two of them being arrested and facing a maximum of five years in jail.
- March 20, 2019
- 01:58 PM
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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18860 (20H1) With Swiftkey Enhancements
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18860 for Insiders in the Skip Ahead ring. This 20H1 build is mostly bug fixes, but does add support for 39 languages in Switfkey.
- March 20, 2019
- 01:38 PM
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Google Fined $1.7 Billion for Anti-Competitive Practices in Online Advertising
Google was fined €1.494.459.000 ($1.698.064.094) or 1.29% of Google's 2018 turnover for abusing its market dominance to block rival advertising companies from displaying search ads on publisher search results pages says a European Commission statement published today.
- March 20, 2019
- 11:30 AM
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Payment Card Thieves Slip into MyPillow and AmeriSleep Bedding Sites
One of the biggest threats facing online retailers are malicious scripts that attackers add to checkout pages in order to steal customer payment information. A new report released today details how the bedding sites MyPillow.com and Amerisleep.com were targeted with these types of of attacks.
- March 20, 2019
- 11:07 AM
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Google Photos Bug Exposed the Location & Time of Your Pictures
A vulnerability in the web version of Google Photos allowed websites to learn a user's location history based on the images they stored in the account.
- March 20, 2019
- 09:43 AM
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Fake eBay Ad in Google Search Led to Tech Support Scams
A fake advertisement in the Google search results has been running for the past week that looked just like a legitimate ad for eBay. When you clicked on it, though, instead of being brought to the auction site you would be shown an incredibly annoying tech support scam that would try to lock up your browser.
- March 20, 2019
- 05:30 AM
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KDE Connect Kicked From Google Play, Returns Less the App It Was
Google today temporarily removed KDE Connect from Play store because it violated a newly-imposed policy for SMS and Call Logs permissions, which the companion app needs in order to offer a full-featured experience.
- March 20, 2019
- 03:27 AM
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Heeere's Clippy! He's Back, but Only for Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft just revived the heavily criticized and parodied Clippy, the default Microsoft Office assistant for 4 years — yes, we thought it was longer too — transforming it into an open source Microsoft Teams app designed to help you add various Clippy animated emotes within messages.
- March 19, 2019
- 06:47 PM
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Netflix and AMEX Customers Actively Targeted by Phishing Campaigns
Two ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting Netflix and American Express customers to steal credit card and social security information as discovered by the Office 365 Threat Research team during the weekend.
- March 19, 2019
- 05:28 PM
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DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown Leads to 85% Drop in Attack Sizes
The average size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks decreased by 85% on a YoY basis during Q4 2018 after the FBI seized the domains of 15 of the world's biggest "booters" (DDoS-for-hire websites).
- March 19, 2019
- 04:33 PM
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18361 (19H1) Still Has Some Bugs to Fix
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18361 (19H1) to Insiders in the Fast ring. As we get closer to its final release in April, these builds will mostly be bug fixes.
- March 19, 2019
- 04:15 PM
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Microsoft Antimalware Crashing With Error 0x800106ba on Windows 7 & 8
According to multiple user reports, the Windows Defender Antivirus, Microsoft Endpoint Protection, and Microsoft Security Essentials antimalware solutions are crashing randomly with a 0x800106ba error code on computers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012.
- March 19, 2019
- 01:30 PM
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80% of the Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Targeted Microsoft in 2018
Eight out of the top ten vulnerabilities exploited by cybercriminals as part of phishing, exploit kits, or RAT attacks during 2018 targeted Microsoft's software products, continuing a trend started in 2017.
- March 19, 2019
- 11:10 AM
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Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Moving to Mobile
As text messaging has become a common form of communication within a business, Business Email Compromise (BEC) scammers have started to go mobile by utilizing SMS messaging to direct their targets.
- March 19, 2019
- 10:32 AM
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LockerGoga Ransomware Sends Norsk Hydro Into Manual Mode
One of the largest aluminum producers in the world, Norsk Hydro, has been forced to switch to partial manual operations due to a cyber attack that is allegedly pushing LockerGoga ransomware.
- March 19, 2019
- 09:48 AM
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Remove the Adobe Flash Player is out of date Scam
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Remove the Can't play this video! Browser Notification Page
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Remove the SecureDossier PUP
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Remove the Click allow to verify that you are not a robot page
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Remove the One Click Booster PUP
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