“Lately, neglected domains have been getting scooped up by crooks who use them to set up fake e-commerce sites that steal credit card details from unwary shoppers.” crime on the internet is smart, and sometimes crooks have it easy. This is a very creative sneaky way to steal from people, that just deals with simple negligence and forgetfulness. This type of scheme makes it easier for people to be stolen from and being as its just kind of unnoticeable behind the front of being a regular domain. in other words REMEMBER TO RENEW YOUR DOMAIN NAME!

 

 

“Krebs on Security.” Brian Krebs, krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/that-domain-you-forgot-to-renew-yeah-its-now-stealing-credit-cards/.

Facetime being popular and having a bug that gives someone complete access to info on your phone can be an extremely risky bug to have. The new bug gives someone the ability to steal contact info off your phone through a facetime call.

“A bad actor would need physical access to the phone that they are targeting and has a few options for viewing the victim’s contact information. They would need to either call the phone from another iPhone or have the phone call itself. Once the call connects they would need to:”

source:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/ios_121_vulnera.html

Disgruntled student? That possibly could have been a title for this, but for someone that makes a program to DDOS attack their school to avoid a test, thats just crazy.

“Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer whiz from Fanwood, N.J., was studying computer science at Rutgers when he developed Mirai along with two other convicted co-conspirators. According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. Jha told investigators he carried out the attacks not for profit but purely for personal, juvenile reasons: “He reveled in the uproar caused by the first attack, which he launched to delay upper-classmen registration for an advanced computer science class he wanted to take,””

is this the future of hacking people pushing for it just as small personal gain? the common theme of our class has been how easy its become to secure yourself the more advanced tech gets. The worst thing is him having been taught to make this from the school, talk about making your own worst enemy.

 

source

“Krebs on Security.” Brian Krebs, krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/mirai-co-author-gets-6-months-confinement-8-6m-in-fines-for-rutgers-attacks/.

West Virginia trying to let people vote via smartphone brings up questions; how, who, and what. how did they think that’d be a good idea, who came up with it, and what do they think is the problem with voting today? “the app uses blockchain — presumably because they have no idea what the security issues with voting actually are.”.

 

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/securing_electi_1.html

Computers become increasingly vulnerable as time goes on and as they grow to become more vulnerable it becomes more dangerous for your data. Your information can be easily stolen making it easier for someone to drastically change your life. “The primary reason computers are insecure is that most buyers aren’t willing to pay — in money, features, or time to market — for security to be built into the products and services they want. As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated.” but it comes down to money and how people are willing to protect themselves.

 

citation

“Schneier on Security.” Blog, http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/security_in_a_w.html.

When receiving a call from someone you don’t know its probably best to not give them any personal information, Mr. Schneier refers to when we’re told as children to not talk to strangers. When you’re young its probably best to not talk to a stranger who specifically goes to speak to you, at the same not knowing someone at all it is best not to give them personal anything. This is a common issue among younger children and older people in society who people will take advantage of.

 

“Schneier on Security.” Blog, http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/sophisticated_v.html.

 

“Krebs on Security.” Brian Krebs, krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/facebook-security-bug-affects-90m-users/.

In a constant theme in our class, we talk about how you’re vulnerable online at anytime especially when you’re not thinking about it. I see that it’s wise and for the best to update your passwords at any available time, keeping dual-layer authentication and such. This could be something very big with such a large loss of data.

larger cell providers are trying to make passwords for every website you visit obsolete and are trying to make it more available to where the site would remember you right away. Most people would find this to be an invasion of privacy as it would track your phones information to allow you to login to a website. the authentication sounds smart and I think it’d work but it’s probably a ways off from being an accepted thing.

Krebs security Article 09/18/18

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/u-s-mobile-giants-want-to-be-your-online-identity/#more-45035