#HappyFriday
This is a weekly series to highlight the best articles and news stories going on in the Community.
What was your favorite story? What topics would you like to see? Sound off in the comments! :)
Equifax Website Hacked (AGAIN)
Did you hear that? It's the sound of Equifax's PR Team losing their marbles.
Equifax.com visitors were offered a fake Flash Player update that installed adware. Equifax blames a third-party performance data vendor, which served malicious content.
Click here to watch a video that shows how the malicious Flash Player update prompt appears.
Check out the article from PCMag!
Microsoft invites you to report malicious and phishing websites
Microsoft is opening itself up to submissions from the public, making it possible for people to provide information about malicious websites.
The new feature was announced in a tweet by the Microsoft Malware Protection Center:
BetaNews has the story!
ATMii Malware Makes Windows 7 and Windows Vista ATMs Spit Out Cash
Security researchers have discovered a new ATM malware strain named ATMii that targets only ATMs running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
On infected ATMs, crooks can carry out three malicious operations. First, they can scan the ATM's cash cassettes for an exact list of bills the ATM contains at that point in time, they can make the ATM dispense a desired amount of cash, and they can order the malware to sabotage itself by deleting a local config file.
BleepingComputer has the full scoop and report!
T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number
Until last week, a bug on a T-Mobile website let hackers access personal data such as email address, a customer's T-Mobile account number, and the phone's IMSI, a standardized unique number that identifies subscribers.
"T-Mobile has 76 million customers, and an attacker could have run a script to scrape the data (email, name, billing account number, IMSI number, other numbers under the same account which are usually family members) from all 76 million of these customers to create a searchable database with accurate and up-to-date information of all users," Karan Saini said, the founder of startup Secure7.
Check out Vice's Motherboard for all the details!
AOL Will Discontinue AIM on December 15, 2017
It's a sad day for 90's kids.
AOL will be shutting down AIM after 20 years of existence, on December 15, 2017, the company announced last Friday.
The America Online Instant Messaging client, later rebranded as AIM, was the first major IM client to catch with the masses and was soon followed by MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and the recent wave of mobile IM clients such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, and others.
Say goodbye to the little yellow running man one last time!
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