Here is the weekly roundup :
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Nothing is Impossible’ Writes Hacker After Defacing Trump Campaign Website
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A hacker who goes by the pseudonym “Pro-Mast3r” has reportedly defaced a fundraising website linked to the campaign of President Donald Trump by compromising a server related to the campaign.
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Dreaded IoT Malware Mirai Spotted in a Windows Trojan
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Mirai, the infamous strain of IoT-based malware that triggered an unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) against against prominent DNS provider Dyn leading to a sweeping blackout last year, has now been spotted in a Windows Trojan.
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Yahoo: Your Email Accounts May Have Been Hacked, Again
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For the third time in less than 6 months, Yahoo has, once again, warned users that their email accounts may have been hacked.
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Most Common Passwords Found In Data Breaches
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Creating a strong password is one of the fundamental ways to keep your account safe. A strong password can help reduce the chances your private information from getting stolen, whereas a weak password is easy to break and use in a malicious manner. In 2016, the most common password was 123456.
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Malware Targeting MS Word for Apple Mac OS Discovered in the Wild
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Macros-based malware attacks targeting Windows machines running Microsoft Word have been proved to be a long-standing and routine threat to PCs. Now, security researchers have discovered attackers developing malicious macros for Word documents on Apple’s Mac platform.
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Upcoming Webinar:
Cloud Security: From Strategy to Incident Response. Thursday, February 23, 4:00PM-5:00PM EST
Up coming Events:
QuBit Conference 2017
Prague | April 4-6th
Wednesday 9:00AM
Czech Republic
Ondrej Krehel, CEO of LIFARS, will join a panel discussion and Paul Kubler, Digital Forensics Examiner at LIFARS, will speak at QuBit Conference 2017.
More information
From Around the Web:
Google ranks Gmail malware targets: Here's how your sector rates on malicious spam
Google's breakdown of Gmail customers who receive the most spam reveals that the real-estate sector is the prime target of emails with malicious attachments or links.
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