THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence — including the possibility of exploiting internet-connected biomedical devices like pacemakers, according to a senior official. “We’re looking atRead More →
Attackers take social engineering to a totally new level. There’s a sneaky new trick going around that can fool some people into divulging their two-factor authentication code to crooks, while thinkingRead More →
Microsoft says it’s for debugging, not spying. Internet users have pulled out the pitchforks and are once again at odds with Microsoft regarding telemetry data, but this time around it’s becauseRead More →
When Wi-Fi was first developed in the late 1990s, Wired Equivalent Privacy was created to give wireless communications confidentiality. WEP, as it became known, proved terribly flawed and easily cracked.Read More →
How Chipzilla and Microsoft hope to get one step ahead of hackers. Intel is pushing a neat technique that could block malware infections on computers at the processor level. That’s theRead More →
In related studies: Ice is cold; fire still hot. Internet file sharing has long been a prime route for malware to spread. The situation is one of the reasons (aside fromRead More →
US-CERT warns about a rise in macro malware. Following numerous reports from various security firms about a large number of malware that uses macro scripts in Office documents to spread, theRead More →
Introduction Satellites have assumed a crucial role in our contemporary society; they are used in both private and public sectors for numerous purposes, from communication to research. Unfortunately, with theRead More →
Security experts are warning owners of Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle that their cars can be hacked via the automobile’s on-board WiFi network used for remote control of keyRead More →
Bad guys score a victory in their never-ending arms race with defenders. Drive-by attacks that install the once-feared TeslaCrypt crypto ransomware are now able to bypass EMET, a Microsoft-provided tool designedRead More →
