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Submission + - Time Warner Cable Service Is Down and No One Seems Surprised (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @10:08AM

criticalmass24 writes: It seems like there’s a sort of epidemic going on in the US as online services keep going down. After troubles over at Facebook and Gmail, it seems that ISPs are also getting “infected.” Time Warner Cable has been having troubles for the past few hours. While issues have been signaled in several areas of the country, it looks like the most affected area is the East Coast. Subscribers from North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Indiana and more are reporting connectivity issues.

Submission + - This Phony 'Anonymous' Site Was Set Up to Trap Ferguson Hacktivists (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Thursday August 14, 2014 @08:35AM

criticalmass24 writes: As military police forces gather around Ferguson, trying to quell an angry, frustrated, and betrayed population, some people are taking their fight online. ‘OpFerguson’, being spear-headed by members of the hacktivism collective Anonymous, launched a couple of days ago.

Submission + - Norton Internet Security Ransomware Affecting Android Users (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:07PM

criticalmass24 writes: On July 16th Lookout wrote about a new “police ransomware” on Android. They named it ScarePakage. (aliases : Eset:Android/Locker.B , Kaspersky:Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Aples.a)
It (or a variant ? seems Norton focused here) is advertised on underground since beginning of July as “Android Locker” by the seller of a fork of Titan Browlock System.

Submission + - Thousands of Plain Text Logins Leaked by Hackers in "#OpSaveGaza" (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:31AM

criticalmass24 writes: On Monday, the hacker group AnonGhost Team (@AnonGhostTeam) announced on Twitter that they managed to break into the systems of the Israeli government and extract the usernames and passwords of 175 user accounts, which they posted in plain text on Pastebin.

Submission + - WHAT TO DO IF POLICE TRY TO SEARCH YOUR PHONE WITHOUT A WARRANT (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Thursday July 10, 2014 @08:31AM

criticalmass24 writes: In a profound win for digital privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers must obtain a warrant before searching your phone. If they don’t, the search is illegal—a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.

Submission + - IN SIX MONTHS, MICROSOFT WILL PULL THE PLUG ON WINDOWS 7 SUPPORT (geekrepublic.org) 1

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @02:44PM

criticalmass24 writes: Microsoft is warning customers that the end is soon coming for Windows 7 in much the same way it came for Windows XP earlier this year. Microsoft will end free mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015.

That means no more security patches if hackers find holes, no more updated features or performance improvements.

Submission + - Dropbox becomes a vehicle for ransomware (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:33AM

criticalmass24 writes: Cloud storage services like Dropbox have made it simple to store and share files with family, friends, and coworkers. Unsurprisingly, unscrupulous individuals have also managed to pervert those features to spread malware, in particular, the kind that holds your files hostage until you pay a sweet fee, as narrated by anti-phishing company PhishMe.

Submission + - Syrian Electronic Army Redirects Reuters Articles to Hacktivists' Message (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:18AM

criticalmass24 writes: On Sunday, all readers trying to access any article on reuters.com were redirected to a landing page on a website controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The page contained the message in the image above, and this time, unlike other occasions, the Reuters website or employees were not at fault, as the hackers directed their phishing efforts towards the advertising network Taboola, that loads code dynamically into Reuters’ website in order to display recommendations.

Submission + - CryptoLocker Variant Found with Weak Encryption (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:17AM

criticalmass24 writes: A modification of the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware Trojan that does not rely on the 2048-bit RSA encryption and does not communicate with a command and control server has been found in the wild.

Although the GameOver Zeus botnet, also used by cybercriminals to distribute CryptoLocker ransomware, has been dealt a heavy blow by law enforcement agencies, variants of the file-encrypting malware are still available in the wild.

Submission + - AT&T confirms security breach: SS numbers, call records compromised (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @09:27AM

criticalmass24 writes: U.S. telecommunications company AT&T has confirmed security breach by its service provider, which compromised personal data of customers such as social security number, call records and more.

AT&T confirmed that the breach occurred between April 9 and April 21, but the company has disclosed the breach to California regulators recently. If such an incident affects at least 500 people, the law in California requires a company to reveal the total number of customers affected by the breach. However, AT&T has not disclosed the number of subscribers whose personal data was compromised as a result of the breach.

Submission + - Ryan Gosling Father's Day Adoption Hoax Tricks Almost 1 Million Fans on Facebook (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:24AM

criticalmass24 writes: Ryan Gosling isn’t just a famous and talented actor (handsome too!), Ryan Gosling is famous in ways many fellow thespians will never be: he is Tumblr and Reddit famous. He has memes and a very loyal and large fanbase online that would do anything to support him and spread the word on his talent, beauty, and overall awesomeness.

Imagine what happened when Ryan Gosling suddenly decided to break his silence and, for once, share a very personal detail of his life on Facebook. This Sunday was Father’s Day so, when everyone took a moment to celebrate the most important man in their life, Ryan wanted to be a part of the experience and, at the same time, share something with the fans.

Submission + - Banker Trojan Bypasses SSL Mechanism (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:17AM

criticalmass24 writes: Security researchers appear to have bumped into a new remote access Trojan that manages to view encrypted traffic in plain text by routing the connection through the attacker’s domains.

Naming it Dyre or Dyreza, security researchers point out that the Trojan relies on browser hooking to intercept traffic and direct it to a command and control center owned by the attackers.

By using this technique, the victim is unaware that information is siphoned out to the cybercriminals and the session continues to appear as run through HTTPS.

Submission + - Hacker Guccifer Indicted in the US (geekrepublic.org)

Submitted by criticalmass24 on Friday June 13, 2014 @09:08AM

criticalmass24 writes: 42-year-old Marcel Lehel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, the hacker that gained unauthorized access to email and social network accounts of high-profile public figures, has been charged in the United States.

Journal Journal: 1Password Keeps Automatic Backups of Your Data

Journal by criticalmass24 on Sunday June 01, 2014 @03:56PM

AgileBits is offering a new version of its powerful password manager for iOS customers, adding automatic backups that are accessible via iTunes, item printing, and fixes across the board.In a string of updates over the past few weeks, 1Password has added tons of new features and abilities, including ( http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/geekrep/~3/iY2ynTYnNtE/)

Journal Journal: iPhone 6 WWDC Leak Video Sends Shockwaves Through the Media, Gets Debunked

Journal by criticalmass24 on Sunday June 01, 2014 @03:41PM

With only a day before the Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off, a video purporting to show Apple testing its iPhone 6 slides at Moscone West emerged on YouTube. The clip sent shockwaves through the media.And you can imagine why. Although most bets are on Apple unveiling the iPhone 6 at an even ( http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/geekrep/~3/X9NZ-WPtKwo/)

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