InfoSec News Nuggets 05/02/2022

How to detect phishing images in emails Phishing has long been a common way to induce a receiver to unveil personal data. Primarily, it works this way: You receive an email from a purportedly reputable source–say, your employer–asking you to click the link and get familiar with new regulations effective in the following week. You are curious about the contents, so you click the link, which asks you to log in to the company’s systems…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 03/22/2021

~4,300 publicly reachable servers are posing a new DDoS hazard to the Internet Criminals are upping the potency of distributed denial-of-service attacks with a technique that abuses a widely used Internet protocol that drastically increases the amount of junk traffic directed at targeted servers. DDoSes are attacks that flood a website or server with more data than it can handle. The result is a denial of service to people trying to connect to the service.…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 08/27/2020

Tomorrow’s Fortnite Update Won’t Be Coming for Apple Users, Epic Says It’s a 'Matter of Principle' In its first statement since Monday’s captivating hearing, this morning Epic Games sought to further clarify its position against Apple while also admitting that the latest chapter of Fortnite would not be appearing on either iOS or macOS when it launches August 27. If you listened in on Monday’s trial, Epic’s latest statement will sound like a refrain. “Apple is asking that Epic…
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