Short Bytes: When you read the headlines like “FBI is forcing Apple to create a backdoor in their products”, what you are really reading is that the FBI is forcing iPhone-makerRead More →
Most ISPs that engage in this practice are owned by two of Asia’s biggest network operators, both located in China. Three researchers from Israel have conducted a study on theRead More →
Survey, YouTube offer proof that people are blowing up ATMs to get the cash inside. What was the best way to steal cash from an ATM in 2015? Skimming stillRead More →
Limited power to eavesdrop contrasts painfully with UK’s far-ranging Snooper’s Charter. German police are now permitted to infect a suspect’s computers, and mobile devices with special trojan software to monitorRead More →
Google and security firm Red Hat have discovered a critical security flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) that affects a library in a universally used protocol. This meansRead More →
Over 4,000 branches and 13,000 ATMs were targeted through a massive phishing campaign. Customers of ICICI, India’s largest private bank, have become targets in a phishing campaign tailored to dupeRead More →
Attackers used legitimate tools on mobile devices to create variants of Android.Lockdroid.E. Symantec has seen several variants of a known ransomware family (Android.Lockdroid.E) that were developed on Android devices using theRead More →
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threatRead More →
IBM X-Force threat intelligence has found that the source code for Android malware GM Bot was leaked on an underground board in December 2015. The leaked code for the malwareRead More →
Los Angeles hospital paid hackers $17,000 ransom in Bitcoins to decrypt medical records. We had earlier reported that hackers had infected the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles with a ransomwareRead More →
