Alisa Esage G (Page 185)

Working as a cyber security solutions architect, Alisa focuses on application and network security. Before joining us she held a cyber security researcher positions within a variety of cyber security start-ups. She also experience in different industry domains like finance, healthcare and consumer products.

Microsoft to notify users of government spying after Chinese Hotmail hack goes public

On: December 31, 2015

In: Incidents

Microsoft will now tell users of its email services when their accounts are being attacked by government hackers. The change in policy comes as Reuters reported that the company chose not toRead More →

DHS: Drug Traffickers are hacking surveillance drones on the border

On: December 31, 2015

In: Incidents

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement confirmed that Drug Traffickers are hacking surveillance drones on the border. Small drones are another powerful tool used by theRead More →

The Tor Project Is launching the Tor Bug Bounty Program

On: December 31, 2015

In: Important

The Tor officially announced to launch the Tor Bug Bounty Program in the next year, a great news for the Tor community. The non-profit organization that is maintaining the TORRead More →

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42

On: December 31, 2015

In: Data Security

Former Sun VP and Linux Foundation CTO died under suspicious circumstances. Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announcedRead More →

‘BackStab’ can hack and steal private data on your mobile phone without you knowing it

On: December 30, 2015

In: Malware, Mobile Security

Palo Alto Networks unravels ‘BackStab’ technique which allows criminals to get access and steal your private data, via unprotected phone backups. The security company, Palo Alto Networks has disclosed details ofRead More →

North Korea’s Linux-based Red Star OS is as oppressive as you’d expect

On: December 30, 2015

In: Important

North Korea’s homegrown computer operating system mirrors its political one – marked by a high degree of paranoia and invasive snooping on users, according to two German researchers. Their investigation,Read More →

Gadget Hacks’ Favorite Must-Have Android Apps of 2015

On: December 30, 2015

In: Important, Mobile Security

Here at Gadget Hacks, we spend countless hours scouring the web to find the most interesting apps as they make their debuts, so the recent influx of new software hasRead More →

Microsoft may have your encryption key; here’s how to take it back

On: December 30, 2015

In: Data Security

It doesn’t require you to buy a new copy of Windows. As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn’t actually newand hasRead More →

Radamant Ransomware Author Has a Fit When Researcher Cracks His Encryption

On: December 30, 2015

In: Malware

Radamant ransomware v1 and v2 are now decryptable. Fabian Wosar, security researcher at Emsisoft, has managed to crack the encryption algorithm for the first two versions of the Radamant Ransomware Kit,Read More →

Misconfigured Database Exposes Details of 191 Million US Voters

On: December 29, 2015

In: Incidents

Researchers could not track down the database’s owner.Security researcher Chris Vickery has identified a misconfigured database that contains the personal details of 191,337,174 US voters. The unprotected database was discoveredRead More →

Yandex worker stole search engine source code, tried selling for just $28K

On: December 29, 2015

In: Important, Incidents

An employee of Russia’s Internet giant Yandex, Dmitry Korobov, stole the source code of its search engine and tried to sell it on the black market to fund his own startup,Read More →

CVE-2015-8562 – 16,000 Daily Attacks on vulnerable Joomla servers

On: December 29, 2015

In: Vulnerabilities

Experts at Symantec discovered that hackers quickly take advantage of CVE-2015-8562 remote code execution to compromise Joomla servers. Joomla recently patched the CVE-2015-8562 vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers forRead More →

Common payment processing protocols found to be full of flaws

On: December 29, 2015

In: Important

Stealing PINs and pillaging bank accounts are both trivial. Credit card users could have their PINs stolen, and merchants could have their bank accounts pillaged, in a set of attacks demonstratedRead More →

Android Malware Uses Built-In Firewall to Block Security Apps

On: December 29, 2015

In: Mobile Security

Malware authors employ open-source Android firewall utility to block security app from talking to their cloud servers.Even if some malware families never get to cause worldwide damage, it’s sometimes interestingRead More →

Patch now! Flash-exploitin’ PC-hijackin’ attack spotted in the wild by Huawei bods

On: December 29, 2015

In: Incidents, Vulnerabilities

Adobe squeezes out one last batch of security fixes for 2015. Adobe has issued new versions of Flash to patch a load of security flaws – one of which isRead More →

How the Internet of Things Got Hacked

On: December 28, 2015

In: Important

THERE WAS ONCE a time when people distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of computers and hackers, and the flesh-and-blood reality known as meatspace. Anyone overwhelmed by the hackable perilsRead More →

China passes controversial anti-terrorism law to access encrypted user accounts

On: December 28, 2015

In: Data Security

China’s legislature unanimously passed a controversial anti-terrorsim law on Sunday despite months of objections from major tech firms and Washington alike. Among other requirements, the new rules state that telecomRead More →

Hackers DDoS Coinbase, website down

On: December 28, 2015

In: Incidents

Coinbase website DDoSed by hacker group. A hacker group consisting of two hackers, @L7Crew and @An0CBR claimed to have brought down the Bitcoin exchange website Coinbase. The Coinbase website is offline and opening the sameRead More →

Hack Like a Pro: Using Sparta for Reconnaissance

On: December 28, 2015

In: Important

As all of you know, reconnaissance is critical to being successful in a pentest or hack. Recon is where we gather all the information we need to determine the bestRead More →

Adware Sneakily Turns Off Firefox Safe Browsing

On: December 28, 2015

In: Data Security

Mintcast adware uses user.js settings files for persistence.Two PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) are secretly turning off Safe Browsing support in Firefox to make sure they can deliver unsolicited ads andRead More →

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