{"id":77656,"date":"2014-01-18T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=77656"},"modified":"2014-01-18T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T09:59:29","slug":"latest-it-security-news-and-updates-for-the-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/latest-it-security-news-and-updates-for-the-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest IT Security News and Updates for the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s have a quick look at what types of scrupulous plans and tricks cybercrooks came up with this week.<\/p>\n

#1.<\/span>
\n\"facebook-scam_snake_eats_zookeeper\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A recent scam that is doing the rounds on Facebook is a post that claims to show a footage of a zookeeper being swallowed by a giant snake. This is but a scam and there is no such video. Read more about this here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

#2.<\/span>
\n\"internet_of_things_cyber_attack\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hackers shoot 750,000 malicious emails to targets using a compromised Smart refrigerator and other Internet-enabled home appliances. This new breed of cyberattack is an attempt by hackers to increase the size of their botnets. Read more about this cyberattack here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

#3.<\/span>
\n\"microsoft_email_accounts_hacked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Syrian Electronic Army first had some social networking sites of Microsoft for dinner. And for dessert, e-mail accounts of some of the company\u2019s employees. Find the complete story here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

#4.<\/span>
\n\"windows_XP_support_ends\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Windows XP support ends on April 8, 2014. But Microsoft has announced that it will still push anti-malware signature and engine updates through July 14, 2015. Know more about this here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

#5.<\/span>
\n\"adware_google_chrome_extension\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The ownership of Google chrome extensions is transferable. That\u2019s bad news, because if these are bought by a hacker (yes, it is possible!), then they can push silent adware and malware updates to your browser, thus compromising your machine. Read more about this here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

#6.<\/span>
\n\"windows_XP_support_ends\"<\/a><\/p>\n

95% of the world\u2019s ATM machines still run on Windows XP. Post April 8, 2014, these ATMs will be at risk unless their OS gets upgraded. Read more on this here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s have a quick look at what types of scrupulous plans and tricks cybercrooks came up with this week. #1. A recent scam that is doing the rounds on Facebook is a post that claims to show a footage of a zookeeper being swallowed by a giant snake. This is but a scam and there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":77651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[244,851,852,853,265,854,513,111],"class_list":["post-77656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adware","tag-atms","tag-google-chrome-extensions","tag-hacked-refrigerator","tag-internet-of-things","tag-microsoft-employee-emails-hacked","tag-syrian-electronic-army","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}