Yesterday, FORBES published a profile of a $20 million spy service that exploits weaknesses in a critical piece of telecoms networks known as SS7, short for Signalling System No. 7. The companyRead More →
SECURITY FLAWS IN software can be tough to find. Purposefully planted ones—hidden backdoors created by spies or saboteurs—are often even stealthier. Now imagine a backdoor planted not in an application,Read More →
Remote-control tool wobbles offline, blames bad passwords for compromises. Updated TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company’s systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewerRead More →
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) refer to the first boot of a new PC as the out-of-box experience (OOBE). As you battle your way through modal dialogues for questionable software, andRead More →
Over 1.5 billion users in danger thanks to new exploit. A hacker going by the handle BuggiCorp is selling a zero-day vulnerability affecting all Windows OS versions that can allow anRead More →
For our most recent IoT adventure, we’ve examined an outdoor cloud security camera which like many devices of its generation a) has an associated mobile app b) is quick toRead More →
While doing some research on the inner workings of Microsofts new Antimalware Scan Interface technology within Windows 10, i found a DLL loading vulnerabilty within PowerShell 5. The reason iRead More →
There’s an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types ofcompanies, those that have been hacked, and those that don’t yet know they have been hacked. MySpace,Read More →
We had 4 new ransomware infections, 2 updates, and one TeslaCrypt news item this week, but for the most part there was nothing that interesting released. When I write theseRead More →
