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Insidious phishing attack leverages on fake attachments to steal Gmail credentials | Homeland Security Degrees

Insidious phishing attack leverages on fake attachments to steal Gmail credentials | Homeland Security Degrees

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Cybercriminals are adopting specially crafted URLs to trick users into entering their Gmail credentials in a new sophisticated phishing campaign.



Security experts discovered a new effective Gmail phishing attack that is able to deceive also tech-savvy people. Crooks leverage on specially crafted URLs to trick victims into providing their Gmail credentials on a phishing page.



The malicious messages are sent from one of the victim’s contacts and pretend to carry a PDF document that can be previewed directly from Gmail. When the victim clicks on the “attachment” image included in the body of the message it is redirected to a Gmail phishing page.



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Inauguration security focusing on truck attack threat, Homeland Security says | Homeland Security Degrees

Inauguration security focusing on truck attack threat, Homeland Security says | Homeland Security Degrees

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Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, and other officials outlined the security measures for next week’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. (Jan. 13) AP DULLES, Va. — Federal authorities overseeing the far-flung security plan for next ……

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It Always Being About Bitcoins: Shadow Brokers Retire | Homeland Security Degrees

It Always Being About Bitcoins: Shadow Brokers Retire | Homeland Security Degreeshttps://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/it-always-being-about-bitcoins-shadow-brokers-retire/ 'It Always Being About Bitcoins': Shadow Brokers Retire Apparently the Shadow Brokers are throwing in the towel on brokering shadow. Just days after initiating an auction of Windows-based hacking tools that they claim come from the NSA-affiliated elite Equation Group team as spotted byHeimdal Security the group has announced its retirement in a petulant message finale lamenting its lack of bitcoin. lt; To learn more visit: The post It Always Being About Bitcoins: Shadow Brokers Retire appeared first on Homeland Security Degrees. http://www.homelandsecurityedus.org/homeland-security-news/it-always-being-about-bitcoins-shadow-brokers-retire/

Inauguration security focusing on truck attack threat, Homeland Security says | Homeland Security Degrees

Inauguration security focusing on truck attack threat, Homeland Security says | Homeland Security Degrees

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Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, and other officials outlined the security measures for next week’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. (Jan. 13) AP DULLES, Va. — Federal authorities overseeing the far-flung security plan for next ……

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No Backdoor, but WhatsApp Can Snoop Encrypted Conversations | Homeland Security Degrees

No Backdoor, but WhatsApp Can Snoop Encrypted Conversations | Homeland Security Degrees

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A report emerged on Friday that the popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp packs a backdoor allowing its operator (Facebook) to tap into users’ end-to-end encrypted conversations, but experts have refuted the claim as an exaggeration and F.U.D.



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http://www.HighsterMobileSpying.com – Highster Mobile is a cell phone spy software package which can be used to monitor the activity on virtually any Android or iPhone device. With Highster Mobile it is possible to remotely monitor a targeted device. Highster Mobile is completely undetectable and records and transmits information to a secured account which can be accessed from any Internet-equipped device, any browser and from anywhere there is an Internet connection. The app records and stores all the activity from the targeted phone, including call log info, emails, chat activity and much more. The various basic features are listed below with a description of each and how they work.



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U.S. ends preferential treatment of Cuban migrants | Homeland Security Degrees

U.S. ends preferential treatment of Cuban migrants | Homeland Security Degrees

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Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive, has worked at the Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive’s Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-contra documentation project and director of the Archive’s project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University, as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs.



His most recent book is Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014). He is the author/editor/co-editor of a number of Archive books: the Archive’s first two documents readers: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 and The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History, both published by the New Press, and Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press, 1998). On the 30th anniversary of the Chilean military coup in September 2003 he published The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which the Los Angeles Times selected as a “best book” of the year. The Pinochet File has been translated into Spanish and published in Barcelona as Pinochet: Los Archivos Secretos. A smaller book on the United States and the overthrow of the government of Salvador Allende has been published in Chile under the title: Los EEUU y el Derrocamiento de Allende.



His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other journals and newspapers. He has appeared on national television and radio broadcasts, among them “60 Minutes,” “The Charlie Rose show,” “Nightline,” CNN, All Things Considered, and “FreshAir” with Terri Gross. He has also worked on, and appeared in, numerous documentary films, including the Oscar winning “Panama Deception,” the History Channel’s “Bay of Pigs Declassified,” and “The Trials of Henry Kissinger.” In November 2003, he served as producing consultant on the Discovery Times documentary, “Kennedy and Castro: The Secret History,” which was based on his article in Cigar Aficionado, “Kennedy and Castro: The Secret Quest for Accommodation.” He is currently a weekly columnist for the Chilean newspaper, Diario Siete.

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WordPress 4.7.1 released, patches eight vulnerabilities and 62 bugs | Homeland Security Degrees

WordPress 4.7.1 released, patches eight vulnerabilities and 62 bugs | Homeland Security Degrees

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According to the release notes the latest version of WordPress 4.7.1 addresses eight security vulnerabilities and other 62 bugs.



Wednesday the latest version of WordPress 4.7.1 was released by the WordPress Team, it is classified as a security release for all previous versions. According to the release notes, the new version addresses eight security flaws and other 62 bugs.



According to the WordPress team, the previous WordPress 4.7 release has been downloaded over 10 million times since its release on December 6, 2016.





The PHPMailer library was updated to patch a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-10033. Aaron D. Campbell, …

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Homeland Security Chief Says ‘No Direct Credible Threat’ to Upcoming Inauguration | Homeland Security Degrees

Homeland Security Chief Says ‘No Direct Credible Threat’ to Upcoming Inauguration | Homeland Security Degrees

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US Homeland Security Chief, Jeh Johnson says there is “no direct credible threat” to the upcoming Trump inauguration and that law enforcement officials are expecting crowds of up to 900,000 people on January 20….

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Resume consideration of H.R. 2017 — Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012.



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Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign | Homeland Security Degrees

Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign | Homeland Security Degrees

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Let’s try to analyze some facts about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign. Prof. Corrado Aaron Visaggio helped us in this difficult task.



The Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign raised to me two simple questions:



(i) Are the criminals geniuses or dummies?



(ii) How can an old, known, easy-to-detect malware infect so many machines belonging to different perimeters for so long time, but only in Italy?



This cyber-espionage appears as a naive mixture of sophisticated and amateur techniques. The choice of the spyware (amateur) is the first strange thing: EyePyramid is an old and known malware.



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