Sensors used to detect the level of ambient light can be used to steal browser data, according to privacy expert Lukasz Olejnik. Over the past decade, ambient light sensors haveRead More →
The Chinese security Xudong Zheng is warning of Homograph Phishing Attacks are “almost impossible to detect” also to experts. The Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng has devised a phishing techniqueRead More →
The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) claims the implementation of its Secure Payment Solution (SPS) has helped to minimize a recent data breach that may have affected as many as 1,000Read More →
Hajime battles with Mirai for control over the Internet of poorly secured things. Mirai, the botnet that threatened the Internet as we knew it last year with record-setting denial-of-service attacks,Read More →
Sensors in phones running both iOS and Android reveal all kinds of sensitive info. Smartphones know an awful lot about us. They know if we’re in a car that’s speeding,Read More →
Someone has created a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that uses the Telegram protocol to steal user data from infected devices. The RAT is written in Python and is currentlyRead More →
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another episode of “Which Restaurant Chain Got Hacked?” Multiple sources in the financial industry say they’ve traced a pattern of fraud on customerRead More →
A simple email marketing trick is also abused by cyber-criminals, who are employing a technique known as “pixel tracking” to gather information on possible targets or to improve the efficiencyRead More →
Like many inventions, the internet was the work of countless hands. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap than Robert W. Taylor, who died onRead More →
Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Opera are vulnerable to a new variation of an older attack that allows phishers to register and pass fake domains as the websites ofRead More →
