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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2018 Edition - Microsoft today released a bevy of security updates to tackle more than 50 serious weaknesses in Windows, Internet Explorer/Edge, Microsoft Office and Adobe Flash Player, among other products. A good nu... ow.ly/8sjG50gu9I7

Domain Theft Strands Thousands of Web Sites - Newtek Business Services Corp. [NASDAQ:NEWT], a Web services conglomerate that operates more than 100,000 business Web sites and some 40,000 managed technology accounts, had several of its core domain name... ow.ly/X8NG50gthRP

U.S. Arrests 13, Charges 36 in ‘Infraud’ Cybercrime Forum Bust - The U.S. Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against three dozen individuals thought to be key members of ‘Infraud,” a long-running cybercrime forum that federal prosecutor... ow.ly/Nq3u50gqtYh

Would You Have Spotted This Skimmer? - When you realize how easy it is for thieves to compromise an ATM or credit card terminal with skimming devices, it’s difficult not to inspect or even pull on these machines when you’re forced to use them personal... ow.ly/uIrA50goJVc

Alleged Spam Kingpin ‘Severa’ Extradited to US - Peter Yuryevich Levashov, a 37-year-old Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world’s most notorious spam kingpins, has been extradited to the United States to face federal hacking and sp... ow.ly/BHf150gnSyD

Attackers Exploiting Unpatched Flaw in Flash - Adobe warned on Thursday that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its Flash Player software to break into Microsoft Windows computers. Adobe said it plans to issue a fix for the... ow.ly/hwoS50glXVM

Drugs Tripped Up Suspects In First Known ATM “Jackpotting” Attacks in the US - On Jan. 27, 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published what this author thought was a scoop about the first known incidence of U.S. ATMs being hit with “jackpotting” attacks, a crime ... ow.ly/4Oos50gjtwp

File Your Taxes Before Scammers Do It For You - Today, Jan. 29, is officially the first day of the 2018 tax-filing season, also known as the day fraudsters start requesting phony tax refunds in the names of identity theft victims. Want to minimize the... ow.ly/QaY050giBFz

First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs - ATM “jackpotting” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for ... ow.ly/iBKX50ghia3

Registered at SSA.GOV? Good for You, But Keep Your Guard Up - KrebsOnSecurity has long warned readers to plant your own flag at the my Social Security online portal of the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) — even if you are not... ow.ly/x9Yc50ggJBN

Chronicle: A Meteor Aimed At Planet Threat Intel? - Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said today it is in the process of rolling out a new service designed to help companies more quickly make sense of and act on the mountains of threat data... ow.ly/nBBX50gf7eU

Some Basic Rules for Securing Your IoT Stuff - Most readers here have likely heard or read various prognostications about the impending doom from the proliferation of poorly-secured “Internet of Things” or IoT devices. Loosely defined as any gadget or... ow.ly/rHbY50ga5rz

Serial SWATter Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter - Tyler Raj Barriss, a 25-year-old serial “swatter” whose phony emergency call to Kansas police last month triggered a fatal shooting, has been charged with involuntary ma... ow.ly/KQBC50g9kb2

Canadian Police Charge Operator of Hacked Password Service Leakedsource.com - Canadian authorities have arrested and charged a 27-year-old Ontario man for allegedly selling billions of stolen passwords online through the now-defunct service... ow.ly/P0xW50g8zrm

Microsoft’s Jan. 2018 Patch Tuesday Lowdown - Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in ... ow.ly/EXbK50g5qDE

Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase - Coinbase and Overstock.com just fixed a serious glitch that allowed Overstock customers to buy any item at a tiny fraction of the listed price. Potentially more punishing, the flaw let anyone pay... ow.ly/fNqR50g4GO6

Scary Chip Flaws Raise Spectre of Meltdown - Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have released updates for a pair of serious security flaws present in most modern computers, smartphones, tablets and mobile devices. Here’s a brief rundown on... ow.ly/bf3i50g2wB2

Serial Swatter “SWAuTistic” Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes - The individual who allegedly made a fake emergency call to Kansas police last week that summoned them to shoot and kill an unarmed local man has claimed credit for raising dozens of th... ow.ly/LdJ650g116Z

Kansas Man Killed In ‘SWATting’ Attack - A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a danger... ow.ly/EbIP50fXOj9

4 Years After Target, the Little Guy is the Target - Dec. 18 marked the fourth anniversary of this site breaking the news about a breach at Target involving some 40 million customer credit and debit cards. It has been fascinating in the years since th... ow.ly/dOy850fWOw8