The Obama administration’s calls for backdoors echo the Clinton-era key escrow fiasco. In the face of a Federal Bureau of Investigation proposal requesting backdoors into encrypted communications, a noted encryptionRead More →
Today’s arrests are part of a co-ordinated Europol initiative to crack down on all levels of computer crime. Norway’s Kripos national criminal investigation service today announced the arrest of fiveRead More →
Wave of attacks grows. Researchers advise sites to install just-released patch. Attackers are actively exploiting a critical remote command-execution vulnerability that has plagued the Joomla content management system for almostRead More →
Linus Torvalds says almost no-one ‘actually ever hit the problem’, or will code at Xmas. Linux Lord Linus Torvalds says the fourth release candidate of Linux 4.4 contained “a fairlyRead More →
Researchers are still looking for a Tor alternative.Scientists at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created an anonymous messaging system, in the same category as Tor,Read More →
Experts at FireEye have discovered a stealthy botnet relying on a backdoor called LATENTBOT has compromised companies around. Experts at FireEye have discovered a stealthy botnet relying on a backdoor called LATENTBOTRead More →
he hacker did it “for the lulz,” no other reason.Anonymous have just released data online belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). The group justified the hack as “for theRead More →
One month after the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, waged a deadly terror attack on Paris, the hacktivist group Anonymous has organized a full day ofRead More →
Last March we described a WordPress attack that was responsible for hidden iframe injections that resembled Darkleech injections: declarations of styles with random names and coordinates, iframes with No-IP hostRead More →
We’ve been monitoring a malvertising campaign very closely as it really soared during the past week. The actors involved seem to be the same as the ones behind the self-sufficient FlashRead More →
