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Poker Debit Card Payouts: Secure Payment Choices For Aussie Players

A poker debit card payout can appear to be one of the simplest ways to receive casino or poker winnings. Funds may be returned to the Visa or Mastercard used…

Critical VPN Concentrator Flaw Opens Door to Unauthenticated Access

A critical vulnerability in a VPN concentrator can give an unauthenticated attacker a path into a private network without a valid username, password, or…

Phishing Kit Disguised as Major Social Login Hits Australian Users

Security researchers have uncovered a polished phishing kit that reproduces the login page of a widely used social media platform with near-pixel accuracy, and…

Linux server ransomware strain emerges as critical enterprise threat

A new file-encrypting malware family has surfaced in active intrusions against enterprise Linux servers, drawing attention from incident response teams across…

Stolen SSL Certificates Turn Trusted Websites Into Phishing Traps

A padlock in a browser address bar has long been treated as a reassuring sign. It confirms that a connection is encrypted, but it does not prove that the…

Password Manager Vulnerability Lets Attackers Seize User Accounts

Researchers have disclosed a serious weakness inside one of the most widely used consumer password managers, a flaw that could let a remote attacker walk away…

IoT Botnet Drives Unprecedented Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks

A newly identified botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of compromised internet-of-things devices has been blamed for a series of record-breaking…

Chrome Add-on Silently Steals Browser History and Logins

A newly documented malicious Chrome extension has been quietly harvesting browser history, saved passwords, and active session cookies from infected machines…

Credit Bureau Breach Puts Millions Of Consumer Records At Risk

A major data breach at a credit bureau can expose a detailed map of a person’s financial identity. Names and email addresses may be only the beginning. Stolen…

Zero-day in Adobe Reader exploited in targeted attacks

A newly abused flaw in Adobe Reader can turn an apparently ordinary PDF into the first stage of a targeted intrusion. Attackers may send a document that…