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Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web

A posting from naked security titled ” Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web”  by Lisa Vaas

emember those cracked Uber accounts that were selling for as little as $1 on the dark web a few months ago?

Well, welcome to the Midsummer Madness Sale: prices have been slashed, and now, they’re going for the low, low price of only 40 cents!

I know what you’re thinking: With these prices, the dark-web markets selling other people’s accounts must be CRAZY!

(Actually, so are you if you actually buy these things. It’s illegal, and your purchase could buy you a world of trouble.)

Motherboard, which first picked up on the Uber account sale in March, now reports that the accounts are not only still being sold; now, valid email/password logins for Uber are selling for less than half of what they had been.

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LinkedIn flips the two-factor authentication switch

A posting from Naked Security on LinkedIn authentication:  Happy anniversary of getting the bejeezus hacked out of you, LinkedIn!
Maybe the timing is just a coincidence, but the career-toned social networking site got savagely hacked on 5 June 2012.
Cybercrooks stole about 6.5 million passwords, over 60% of which were cracked within the span of one measly day.
The attack resulted in a variety of nastiness, including a pump-and-dump stock scam and a $5 million class action lawsuit (dismissed in March).

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Not good enough, Oracle – promises to secure Java are too little, too late

An interesting article from Naked security: Oracle has promised to work harder to make Java more secure.
Given the constant flood of high-profile, heavily-exploited vulnerabilities, are Oracle’s new ideas going to be enough to save this piece of software from drowning in bad vibes?
In a lengthy blog post last week, the head of Java development, Nandini Ramani, summed up what’s been done to “address issues with the security-worthiness of Java”.

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