Nine Major VPNs Could Get Blocked by Russia in 30 Days
Nine VPN providers could get banned in Russia within 30 days if they fail to enforce the country’s list of banned websites by connecting their systems to the Russian State Information System (FGIS) to automatically block their users’ access to blacklisted websites. […]
Google Search Ads Infiltrated Again by Tech Support Scams
If you are planning on doing any shopping over the weekend, you may want to be careful when doing searches in Google. This is because scammers have infiltrated Google’s ad network to redirect users to tech support scams when they click on popular search terms such as Lowes and PayPal. […]
Man Gets 51 Months in Prison for $10M BEC Fraud, Romance Scam
Muftau Adamu was sentenced today to 51 months in prison — 4 years and three months — for stealing more than $10 million through romance scams and business email compromise (BEC) fraud schemes aided by four other co-conspirators, between 2014 and 2018. […]
Google Chrome to Limit Referer Header Size to Block Attacks
In order to prevent attacks such as cache probing, Google Chrome will begin to limit the HTTP Referer header to 4KiB in size. Other browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox have indicated that they will adopt this change as well. […]
New Windows 10 Zero-Day Bug Emerges From Bypassing Patched Flaw
Demo exploit code and details are now available about a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 that allows elevating the privileges of a normal user to those of an administrator. An attacker can use it to install programs, view, change or delete data. […]