In a message posted online early this morning, the Shadow Brokers — the cyber-espionage group believed to have stolen hacking tools from the NSA — announced new details about theirRead More →
There is a way to inject malicious content into email servers running email encryption appliances, a technique that allows attackers to go around email security products. Email encryption appliances (EEAs)Read More →
A bug in Microsoft’s NTFS file system technology allows pranksters to hang or crash computers running Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1 just by tricking the user to accessRead More →
This question shows up from time to time in open source encryption libraries’ bug trackers. This was one of the “weird problems” covered in my talk at B-Sides Orlando (titledRead More →
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new attack against Android OS, dubbed ‘Cloak and Dagger,’ millions of devices at risk. Security researchers at Georgia Institute of TechnologyRead More →
Cyber-security firm enSilo has released a patch for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that will protect against attacks via ESTEEMAUDIT, a hacking tool dumped online by the Shadow BrokersRead More →
Kernels can be exploited and iCloud account user information leaked due to the security flaws. Zimperium has released the public details of security vulnerabilities affecting both the Android and iOSRead More →
Comparisons to the Windows flaw WCry exploited are exaggerated, but only a little. Maintainers of the Samba networking utility just patched a critical code-execution vulnerability that could pose a severeRead More →
Ping, the administrator of the Hell hacking forum, is allegedly a young boy who supposedly tried to phish teachers. On the dark web, no one knows who you really are.Read More →
Whenever I get a shell on a Windows system with VMware installed I feel a certain frustration at not being able to access the filesystem of the available virtual machines.Read More →
