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“This scam is just one of several new variations of IRS and tax-related phishing campaigns targeting W-2 information, indicating an increase in the interest of criminals in sensitive tax information,” said the FBI’s advisory. Read more

Drupal developers patched two critical vulnerabilities this week in versions 7 and 8 of its content management system platform. Overall, Drupal patched seven vulnerabilities including four rated moderately critical and two flaws rated less critical. Read more

It was only back in November when the intelligent element of smart contracts was cast into doubt after an individual known only as “DevOps199” stumbled across the library code of a smart contract facilitating the trade and storage of ethereum (ETH). Read more

JPMorgan’s issue begins a month after Wells Fargo & Co. said an internal processing error caused issues with online returns for certain customers, some of whom faced fees or charges that the bank had to change. Read more

Code-signing certificates are designed to give your desktop or mobile app a level of assurance by making apps look authentic. Whenever you open a code-signed app, it tells you who the developer is and provides a high level of integrity to the app that it hasn’t been tampered with in some way. Read more

Cyber world is a risky business. On one side it has made our life easier, and on other it presents risks. Everything on the cloud can be hacked, and no institution is 100% sade, including government organizations. Read more

A Mac malware that can silently, remotely control a vulnerable computer and steal passwords from a user’s keychain has gone largely unnoticed by antivirus makers for two years — even though the code is readily available to download. Read more

These infected websites allowed hackers to mine cryptocurrencies by hacking anyone who visited these infected sites. This was done by using Coinhive, and was said to be a successful attack, however reports have something else to say. Read more

Esteves offered customers two encryption tools. Both were designed to help hackers evade detected by encrypting their code. Cryptex Lite cost just £5 per month while Cryptex Reborn cost £60 for a lifetime licence. Esteves started selling the tools back in 2011 and continuously updated them until he was caught. Read more