Downloading and trying to open Windows DRM-protected files can deanonymize Tor Browser users and reveal their real IP addresses, security researchers from Hacker House have warned. Attacks using DRM-protected multimediaRead More →
The Pentagon has known about the problem for 8 months. The U.S. Department of Defense could be at risk of being attacked by hackers quite easily, one security researcher warns.Read More →
Ubuntu users are being urged to update their operating systems to address a handful of recently patched OpenSSL vulnerabilities which affect Ubuntu and its derivatives. Developers with Canonical, the company that oversees theRead More →
Zimperium, the mobile security company that discovered the Stagefright bug in the summer of 2015, announced yesterday its intention to buy fully-working exploits for former Android and iOS zero-days. Zero-daysRead More →
A group of researchers from the University Alliance Ruhr has found a cross-site printing bug in the old PostScript language. Popular printer models manufactured by Dell, Brother, Konica, Samsung, HP, and LexmarkRead More →
Thousands of internet-connected printers could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, as well as passwords that could allow further compromise of a network. New research published by academics hasRead More →
Programming blunders allow miscreants to snatch home gateways’ admin passwords. Researchers are warning of a serious security hole that can be exploited to hijack potentially hundreds of thousands of NetgearRead More →
I have previously recommended a course entitled Software Exploits by Open Security Training, and similarly, a book “called The Shellcoder’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes”. Using some of the examples presented in theRead More →
A security expert discovered a flaw in a ransomware protection service that opened Uber service, and many others, to cyber attacks. The Russian penetration tester Vladimir Ivanov from the securityRead More →
Symantec is currently investigating reports of yet another new attack in the Middle East involving the destructive disk-wiping malware used by the Shamoon group (W32.Disttrack, W32.Disttrack.B). Similar to previous attacks,Read More →
