Vermont Librarian Wins Small-Claims Suit Against Equifax
In a David-and-Goliath moment, the 49-year-old librarian has won satisfaction in the wake of its head-spinningly massive 2017 data breach....
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Week on Science Friday
It's Cephalopod Week! "Three hearts, eight arms, can't lose."
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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WannaCry Kill Switch Hero Faces New Charges, But Code Evals Say Little
The Feds say Marcus Hutchins is behind both the UPAS Kit backdoor and the Kronos banking trojan....
Trump-Kim Meeting Was a Magnet For Russian Cyberattacks
Attacks directed at targets in Singapore went through the roof earlier this week....
New Banking Trojan Can Launch Overlay Attacks on Latest Android Versions
While other malware families have been searching for new overlay techniques for Android 7 and 8, MysteryBot appears to have found a solution....
Email, Social Media Still Security Nightmares
Phishing and banking trojans continue to be major threats brought into the enterprise....
Hackers Crack iPhone Defense Built to Block Forensic Tools
Grayshift, the company behind a system to help police break into iPhones, says it found a workaround for USB Restricted Mode....
Essex Community to Organize Dark Web Awareness Event for Parents
In response to the recent influx of U.K. youth conducting their activities on the dark web, the town of Tendring in Essex, England has taken a proactive measure to expose parents in the community to the anonymo...
GnuPG Flaw in Encryption Tools Lets Attackers Spoof Anyone’s Signature
A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in some of the world's most popular and widely used email encryption clients that use OpenPGP standard and rely on GnuPG for encrypting and digitall...
Darknet Hacker Who Breached 100+ Companies Is Jailed for 10 Years
The famous hacker and dark web vendor by the name Grant West, also known as “Courvoisier,” has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison after being held in police custody for months. The notorious ...