IN AN AGE when hackers hire themselves out to organized crime schemes and sell secret intrusion techniques to spy agencies, Samy Kamkar takes a more fun-loving approach to dropping zero-dayRead More →
Backdoor in NetScreen firewalls gives attackers admin access, VPN decrypt ability. An operating system used to manage firewalls sold by Juniper Networks contains unauthorized code that surreptitiously decrypts traffic sentRead More →
Grub Vulnerability : You can Hack into a Linux PC/laptop just by pressing ‘Backspace’ 28 times Most of us swear by Linux as a super secure operating system but twoRead More →
Digital forensics is one of the fields often overlooked by aspiring hackers. In a rush to exploit every and any system they can, they often ignore learning digital forensics—the fieldRead More →
VTech site remained vulnerable to an old SQL injection exploit. UK police said they have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection to the November breach of electronic toymaker VTech, aRead More →
There is an increase in people who have been victims of identity theft and unauthorized use of credit cards because of many companies that handle data irresponsibly. According to manyRead More →
Attackers carry out SMS fraud via the infected phones. The Android/OpFake and the Android/Marry malware families, two banking trojans targeting mobile devices, have (improperly) stored their C&C servers inside Facebook Parse,Read More →
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 →
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 →
