Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2022

police surrounding our home and forcing me into handcuffs at gunpoint. But these dangerous hoaxes can quickly turn deadly: In March 2019, 26-year-old serial swatter Tyler Barriss was sentenced to 20 years in prison for making a phony emergency call to police in late 2017 that resulted in the shooting death of an innocent Kansas resident.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 9, 2019

Anger at Politicians and Public Figures Allegedly Motivated 20-Year-Old Suspect German police arrested a 20-year-old student - living at home with his parents - who they say confessed to leaking contact details and sensitive information for an estimated 1,000 German celebrities, journalists and politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

” KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the defendants were in Spalding Common to pay a surprise visit to a 19-year-old hacker known by the handles “Discoli,” “Disco Dog,” and “Chinese.” Their intent was for robbery/blackmail of crypto, I just happened to not be home at the time.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Of course, it’s not always practical or possible to haul that old sofa to the local police department, or a used car that isn’t working. If you’re selling at home, or going to someone’s home, never be outnumbered. At home or an apartment, NEVER let someone go anywhere unaccompanied.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This dynamic is highlighted by support of the Matter smart home devices standard. It’s not just in smart homes,” he says. Companies are moving to update decades old PKI systems because they realize how pivotal this is to digital trust and everything they do.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki , a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. Ransom Man inadvertently included a copy of his home directory in the leaked Vastaamo patient data.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Woman receives payout and secures protections against charity sharing certain data with Home Office A victim of county lines trafficking has won a landmark victory in the high court securing new protections against the Salvation Army handing over confidential information to the Home Office. Continue reading.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 27, 2023

So I wrapped up this week's live stream then promptly blew hours mucking around with Zigbee on Home Assistant. Is it worth it, as someone asked in the chat? Uh, yeah, kinda, mostly.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2023

FBI agents carting items out of Fitzpatrick’s home on March 15. As part of that operation, the feds also charged the alleged administrator, 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho of Portugal, with six criminal counts. Image: News 12 Westchester. Coelho was arrested in the United Kingdom on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. More importantly, they also usually have financial savings, own a home, and have good credit—all of which make them attractive to scammers.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Harvey Norman website outage was just, dumb (some people suggested it was a deliberate strategy to create demand) Unifi has launched a search feature for license plate recognition in their Protect app (I'd really like to see this data surfaced into Home Assistant so I can trigger events off specific vehicles) I mentioned Ubiquiti's funny (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2024

A total of three people were arrested here, including the 23-year-old main suspect at his home address in the Rhine district of Neuss (Korschenbroich).” The local focus of the measures was primarily in North Rhine-Westphalia with 36 search objects. ” reads the press release published by the Düsseldorf Police.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Somewhere along the way, Google introduced a Google News feed “left of home,” that valuable real estate that smartphone users access by swiping right from the home screen. I’ve had a Google phone for more than a decade, from its initial incarnation as the “Nexus” to its current apex form, the Pixel 8 Pro.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

FBI agents were able to zero in on Bukoski’s real-life location after a review of his email account showed a receipt from May 2018 in which he’d gone online and ordered a handmade pan pizza to be delivered to his home address. When an online pizza delivery order brings FBI agents to raid your home.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Of course, not if you count the many years I worked as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Post to dozens of homes in Springfield, Va. (as ” I was 23 years old, and I had no clue what to say except to tell him that paper route story, and that I’d already been working for him for half my life. “Hey Brian, not so fast!

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2024

This city has such a special place in my heart for so many reasons, not least of which by virtue of being Charlotte's home town we have so many friends and family here. Geez it's nice to be back in Oslo!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. But investigators found the file also contained an entire copy of ransom_man’s home folder, a likely mistake that exposed a number of clues that they say point to Kivimaki.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 4, 2022

Let's see how it goes in other states, I'll be first in line when they roll out in Queensland so I can finally start leaving my wallet at home! References I'm doing a meetup in Tassie on July 7 (in a brewery!!!) Start your free 14-day trial today!

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping his best friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river. Suspects Troy Woody Jr.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time. The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Russian media outlet published a video of the arrest of one of the suspects and the searchers performed by the FSB agents at the suspect’s home.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 13, 2023

During that time our homes, workplaces and public spaces have become populated with a wide range of smart, software driven, and Internet connected devices ranging from printers to cameras and home appliances. It’s no surprise that cyber threats and attacks followed.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov ‘s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items. At the Russian home furnishing store Westwing.ru, Ms. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. “Nordex,” in his Ferrari. In 2017, U.S. ” NORDIA Nordia@yandex.ru

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 6, 2021

There's loads of bits and pieces happening as evidence by almost an entire hour disappearing in this week's vid, ranging from problems with tradies (tradespeople), more lockdown, stats on some projects and then this week's blog post, 3D printing with my 9-year old daughter Elle.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Well, for many people, working from home almost feels like the norm now. Now, as we come to the end of 2023, we have thousands of organisations whose workforces are predominantly working from home. The NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) also added requirements for home working to the scheme in January 2022.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This report is six months old, and I don’t know anything about the organization that produced it, but it has some alarming data about router security. However, many routers are powered by very old versions of Linux. Much more effort is needed to make home routers as secure as current desktop of server systems.

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AIIM

MARCH 31, 2020

Many of us find ourselves working from home – often rather suddenly and unexpectedly. Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are now in the position of figuring out how to ensure that the business of the business continues while staff stay home and practice effective social distancing.

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Rocket Software

APRIL 8, 2020

Around the globe, companies have sent their employees home to prioritize their safety during the COVID-19 outbreak. For many organizations, this means a greater burden on their IT systems and connectivity from remote workstations, home computers and mobile devices. . Call center employees can use home computers to reach their systems.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 28, 2023

Messing with door-knocking real estate agents is a really good use of Home Assistant and Ubiquiti IMHO (channelling my inner Password Purgatory demons on this one!) An old Roblox breach surfaced and also went into HIBP (Roblox has had quite the time of it lately.) Watch the demo today!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

McCormick — they shot and killed 28-year-old Andrew Finch , a father of two who had done nothing wrong. Barriss admitted setting that fatal swatting attack in motion after getting in the middle of a dispute between two Call of Duty gamers, 18-year-old Casey Viner from Ohio and Shane Gaskill , 20, from Wichita.

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The Texas Record

JULY 8, 2020

Since March 17, 2020, the Records Management Assistance team has been primarily working from home to maximize social distancing measures. We make appearances at the library once a week or so, but otherwise we spend our time answering consulting questions and developing new training from the comforts of our homes. Andrew’s space.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

UK police suspect that a 16-year-old from Oxford is one of the leaders of the popular Lapsus$ extortion group. The father of a 16-year-old from Oxford that was identified by law enforcement told the BBC his family was concerned and was trying to keep him away from his computers. ” states Bloomberg that first reported the news.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The Private Office of John Bernard , which advertises itself as a capital investment firm based in Switzerland, has for years been listed on multiple investment sites as the home of a millionaire who made his fortunes in the dot-com boom 20 years ago and who has oodles of cash to invest in tech startups. news report from 2015.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. The Australian police executed a search warrant at a Rockdale home on 6 October and discovered a mobile phone used to send the messages. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York today unsealed criminal complaints against Sagar Steven Singh — also known as “ Weep ” — a 19-year-old from Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Nicholas Ceraolo , 25, of Queens, NY, who allegedly also went by the handles “ Convict ” and “ Ominus.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

The three-year-old high-severity flaw is a deserialization of untrusted data in Plex Media Server on Windows, a remote, authenticated attacker can trigger it to execute arbitrary Python code. The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers. in May 2020.

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