Russian developer known online as ‘Gribodemon’ and ‘Harderman’ gets nine years in US jail, while malware vendor ‘Bx1’ receives 15 years in billion-dollar case. The Russian creator of a computerRead More →
Approach relies on already installed code, including widely used glibc library. New research into the “Rowhammer” bug that resides in certain types of DDR memory chips raises a troubling new prospect:Read More →
Following WhatsApp’s move to add end-to-end encryption to its platform, another big messaging company is joining the wave of apps turning on expanded privacy features.Viber — a messaging app with 711 million+ usersRead More →
Malware uses clever trick to avoid detection. A new version of the NewPosThings PoS malware is using a clever technique to extract data from infected PoS terminals that almost no securityRead More →
Experts analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious RTF documents created using the same Four Element Sword builder. Security experts at Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have spottedRead More →
Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur says he helped Turkish hacker group RedHack gain unauthorised access to servers. Everybody who is linked with the online hacktivist group knows Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur.Read More →
New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discoveredRead More →
After hackers ran up a bill on my PlayStation account, Sony held it ransom, says user. Sony is not known to be a particularly customer friendly company with many complaintsRead More →
Experts at Cisco Systems discovered more than 3 million vulnerable servers exposed on the Internet while scanning for the presence of JBOSS Backdoor. According to Cisco Systems, more than 3 millionRead More →
DDOS attacks are a fact of life these days, it would seem. People were having trouble logging into Blizzard games such as Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft last night,Read More →
