According to statements from Ukrenergo, a Ukrainian energy provider, a cyber-attack may have caused a power outage in northern Ukraine, almost a year after another cyber-attack had shut down powerRead More →
BY NOW IT’S hard to keep track of which companies have been hacked and which haven’t. Remember the FourSquare hack? What about Adobe? Even breaches that were high-profile at theRead More →
The team at Cybereason released today a new tool that tries to help users stay safe from ransomware infections. Named RansomFree, this application can help users of Windows 7, 8Read More →
As many of you who follow me on twitter will know, I’m a big fan of the Bettercap project. Created by @EvilSocket, this tool is a reimagining of the historicRead More →
The current generation of Android banking trojans are all equipped with ransomware-like features in order to lock the user’s device, and in some cases encrypt his data. Despite possessing suchRead More →
Cryptolulz666 announced another data breach, he hacked the database of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the second of the country. Just after 24 hours of the hack of theRead More →
The FBI arrested this past week Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, 26, from La Canada, California, for launching DDoS attacks against Chatango, an online chat service. According to court documents, Sharma, whoRead More →
The code itself, the symbols and strings that eventually dictate the behavior of a machine, is one thing, but properly preparing it and executing it requires a dedicated venue. YourRead More →
Microsoft today patched a half-dozen critical browser vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, but apparently not used in attacks as of yet. The critical Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge bulletinsRead More →
Shamoon, a piece of malware that tries to turn infected computers into unusable bricks, is back. Earlier this month, a number of cybersecurity firms reported that hackers had used theRead More →
Nagios Core has been updated to take care of two critical vulnerabilities that can be pinned together to attack servers hosting the open source IT infrastructure monitoring software. The flawsRead More →
Following a failed takedown attempt, changes made to the Mirai malware variant responsible for building one of today’s biggest botnets of IoT devices will make it incredibly harder for authoritiesRead More →
DNSChanger causes network computers to visit fraudulent domains. As you read these words, malicious ads on legitimate websites are targeting visitors with malware. But that malware doesn’t infect their computers,Read More →
The exploitation of the CrashDB code injection issue could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on machines running Ubuntu Linux distro. New problems for Ubuntu Linux distribution, the securityRead More →
Comodo security researchers have spotted version 2.0 of a deadly Android trojan named Tordow, which first came to light in February this year. The trojan’s main feature is its abilityRead More →
Swedish hardware hacker Ulf Frisk has published today instructions on how to build and use a $300 device that can retrieve login passwords for Macs protected by Apple’s FileVault2 diskRead More →
If your desktop runs a mainstream release of Linux, chances are you’re vulnerable. If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there’s a good chance securityRead More →
The Shadow Brokers—a hacker or group of hackers that stole computer exploits from the National Security Agency—has been quiet for some time. After their auction and crowd-funded approach for sellingRead More →
If you use one, stop now. If you write heist movies, write safe-crackers out of your script. Attackers can locate and pop safes protected with high security commercial locks thanksRead More →
Short Bytes: Security firm Cynet has discovered a critical issue that affects the privacy of 1-billion Facebook Messenger users. Dubbed Originull, this flaw is also expected to affect millions of other websitesRead More →
