KingMiner Cryptocurrency Miner
KingMiner is a newly observed cryptocurrency miner that targets Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft SQL servers. At the time of publication,
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Virut Botnet
Virut is a botnet malware family that was first seen in 2006. The botnet was believed to have been mostly shut down by
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DuckDuckGo Buys duck.com Domain Name From Google
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to me that the Duck.com domain name had been transferred to DuckDuckGo’s possession. In a
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Barclays Customers Can Now Stop Transactions At Chosen Retailers
Barclays has today launched a new feature for customers within its mobile banking app giving them the ability to ‘turn
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Ofcom Offer New FM Community Radio Licences
Ofcom is inviting applications for services operating on FM only. No areas are excluded on the basis of frequency availability,
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YouTuber Fan Promotes Subscription Via Printer Hack
This week an anonymous individual hacked 50,000 printers, causing them to print out a message that urged people to subscribe
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Rogue Fitness Apps Help You To Lose Money Not Weight
Three malicious apps have recently been identified and removed from Apple’s app store. The apps had a health theme and purported to check heart rate,
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NHS To Bin All Fax Machines By 2020
All NHS organisations will be required to get rid of their fax machines and use modern communication methods, such as
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Red Hat Ansible Playbooks Password Exposure Vulnerability [CVE-2018-16859]
CVE Number – CVE-2018-16859 A vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible could allow a local attacker to discover plaintext passwords on a
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And The Cause Of The Recent o2 Outage Was…
The cause of the recent o2 outage this week was an expired certificate. The issue was not actually O2’s fault either,
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