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Wells Fargo’s website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days.
Wells Fargo apologized on Twitter for the disruption, saying it was working to restore access. By Wednesday morning, the site appeared to be functioning.
Original article at HITB
Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones have been recently said to be vulnerable to a specific exploit that could result in the entire device being wiped clean from the browser through the use of a USSD code.
However, it appears that Samsung was actually capable of patching the USSD exploit, and that most of its Galaxy S III devices are safe from it.
Original article at HITB
As more users turn to their mobile devices to conduct business, researchers are tracking a significant uptick in SMS phishing attacks that can lead to financial and identity theft.
The scams work by sending victims text messages that direct them to call spurious numbers thought to be banking institutions, credit card services or even government agencies.
Written by: l33tdawg at https://news.hitb.org/content/security-firm-notes-sharp-increase-sms-phishing-attacks