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!_Urgent_!⠀ Your MyFitnessPal Account Was Almost Certainly Hacked, Change Your Password Now⠀ ⠀ If you’re one of the millions of the 150 million MyFitnessPal users, bad news: hackers have your email address, your user name, and your hashed password.⠀ ⠀ Here’s Jim Finkle and Nivedita Balu, reporting for Reuters:⠀ ⠀ The stolen data includes account user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords for the popular MyFitnessPal mobile app and website, Under Armour said in a statement. Social Security numbers, driver license numbers and payment card data were not compromised, it said.⠀ ⠀ You should change your password immediately—the app will eventually force you to do so. If you’re re-using your MyFitnessPal password on multiple sites you can now assume hackers can log into those services too, so change them ASAP.⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/2E6QF1q⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #MyFitnessPal #security #hacker #adware #cybersecurity #antimalware #botnet #hacking #hacked #cyberattack #ransomware #hackers #cyberdefense #cybercrime #antivirus #internetsecurity #malware ⠀ ⠀ #dosattack #virusscan #malicioushackers #itsecurity #cyber #technology #manageditservices #techtip #security #tech ⠀ #password #passwordhash (at Brampton, Ontario)

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GitHub hit with the largest DDoS attack ever seen | ZDNet GitHub, a web-based code distribution and version control service, survived a massive denial of service attack on Wednesday. According to a report at Wired, a staggering 1.35 terabits per second (Tbps) of traffic hit the site at once. Within 10 minutes the company called for help from a DDoS mitigation service similar to Google's Project Shield, Akamai's Prolexic, which took over to filter and weed out malicious traffic packets. The attack, says Wired, ended after eight minutes. This may have been the largest DDoS attack ever; Wired notes the attackon domain name server Dyn in late 2016 reached 1.2 Tbps of traffic. The attack was apparently conducted via a non-bot technique called an amplification attack. These use memcached database systems, says Wired, that can be queried by anyone. Attackers spoof the IP of their target and send small requests to the memcached databases, which then send a massive amount of traffic to the target system, like GitHub in this case. http://crwd.fr/2HY5Ug7 . . . . . . . . . . #cyberattack #ransomware #technology #hacker #cyberdefense #security #internetsecurity #cybersecurity #malicioushackers #hacked #tech #techtip #botnet #hackers #virusscan #cybercrime #hacking #antimalware #antivirus #cyber #manageditservices #itsecurity #prilaga #adware #dosattack #github #memcache (at Mississauga, Ontario)

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NSA Exploits Ported to Work on All Windows Versions Released Since Windows 2000 A security researcher has ported three leaked NSA exploits to work on all Windows versions released in the past 18 years, starting with Windows 2000. The three exploits are EternalChampion, EternalRomance, and EternalSynergy; all three leaked last April by a hacking group known as The Shadow Brokers who claimed to have stolen the code from the NSA. Researcher ports NSA exploits for old&new Windows versions Several exploits and hacking tools were released in the April 2017 Shadow Brokers dump, the most famous being EternalBlue, the exploit used in the WannaCry, NotPetya, and Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreaks. http://crwd.fr/2BANXne #EternalChampion #EternalRomance #EternalSynergy #wannacry #notpetya #badrabbit #nsa #ShadowBrokers #EternalBlue #exploits #windows #microsoft #windows7 #windowsxp #windows10 #Microsoft #ransomware #cyberattack #cybercrime #hacking #hacker #cyberdefense #security #internetsecurity #cybersecurity #malicioushackers #hacked #prilaga #dosattack #hackers (at Brampton, Ontario)

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Facebook is using two-factor authentication to spam users | Daily Mail Online Facebook is misusing phone numbers provided as part of a login security feature The firm is texting users with spam messages notifying them of new posts Facebook is even sending them to people who have text notifications turned off  Users who reply have later found their response posted to their Facebook wall http://crwd.fr/2EwdtJ3 #facebook #2fa #twofactor #2factor #cyberattack #ransomware #technology #hacker #cyberdefense #security #internetsecurity #cybersecurity #malicioushackers #hacked #tech #techtip #hackers #virusscan #adaware #cybercrime #hacking #antimalware #antivirus #cyber #manageditservices #itsecurity #prilaga #dosattack #spam (at Mississauga, Ontario)

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Cisco Talos warns about malicious cryptocurrency mining attacks | VentureBeat Malicious hackers are infecting unsuspecting users’ computers with code that commandeers the devices for cryptocurrency mining. Cisco Talos, a threat intelligence group owned by networking giant Cisco, issued a report today that documents how victims’ computers are being hijacked to enrich the attackers through cryptocurrency mining, which takes a lot of computing power. Cisco Talos has observed botnets consisting of millions of infected systems, which could in theory be leveraged to generate more than $100 million per year. And as long as users are clueless, that would turn into recurring revenue for the cryptocurrency thieves. http://crwd.fr/2Eg0qLI . . . . . . . . #cisco #talos #cyberattack #ransomware #technology #hacker #cyberdefense #security #internetsecurity #cybersecurity #malicioushackers #hacked #tech #techtip #hackers #virusscan #adaware #cybercrime #hacking #antimalware #antivirus #cyber #manageditservices #itsecurity #prilaga #dosattack #cryptocurrency #cryptomining (at Brampton, Ontario)

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Windows Defender to start removing “optimizer” scareware | Ars Technica Windows Defender, the anti-malware software that's built in to Windows, is going to start removing utility software that tries to scare users into upgrading, starting in March. The Windows software ecosystem has a large variety of software of dubious merit that claims to detect and diagnose faults. These programs often offer a free version that purports to find problems and a paid version that can supposedly repair those problems. Frequently, the problems detected by this software are either nonexistent or misleadingly described, spuriously blamed for crashes or poor performance. https://search.app.goo.gl/qJPt #microsoft #windows10 #microsoftwindows #windowsdefender #scareware #cyberattack #ransomware #technology #hacker #cyberdefense #security #internetsecurity #cybersecurity #malicioushackers #hacked #tech #techtip #hackers #virusscan #adaware #cybercrime #hacking #antimalware #antivirus #cyber #manageditservices #itsecurity #prilaga #dosattack (at Brampton, Ontario)

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#Bell gets hacked and no more community mailboxes: CBC's Marketplace consumer cheat sheet Miss something this week? Don't panic. CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need. http://crwd.fr/2nmfX5r #cyberattack #ransomware #technology #hacker #cyberdefense #security #internetsecurity #cybersecurity #malicioushackers #hacked #tech #techtip #hackers #virusscan #adaware #cybercrime #hacking #antimalware #antivirus #cyber #manageditservices #itsecurity #prilaga #dosattack #cbc (at Brampton, Ontario)

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2017's Top hacks and data breaches Now that 2017 is gone here is an in-depth review of 2017's top hacks and data breaches that affected millions of Internet users worldwide. http://crwd.fr/2lxCz2N #cybersecurity #technology #hacker #hacked #security #internetsecurity #cyberattack #ransomware #itsecurity #antivirus #tech #techtip #manageditservices #cybercrime #cyberdefense #cyber #hackers #hacking #malicioushackers #adaware #virusscan #dosattack #antimalware #wifi #wireless (at Mississauga, Ontario)