In writing the most recent Hack This (“Scrape the Web with Beautiful Soup”) I again found myself trapped between the competing causes of blog-brevity and making sure everything is totallyRead More →
Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually all versions of the LinuxRead More →
Adult website Adult FriendFinder may have been compromised by a hacker who said he has gained access to the site’s backend servers and posted allegedly compromised data to his Twitter feed. TheRead More →
Information Security experts have discovered an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability in Joomla component ja-k2-filter-and-search. Information Security Researchers Dimitrios Roussis and Evangelos Apostoloudis have discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in componentRead More →
Russian man drove luxury car, then collapsed after being apprehended, police say. An alleged Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic following an FBI-coordinated tip-off is suspected of taking part in aRead More →
Biggest credit card replacement in India’s history. The State Bank of India (SBI) said today it decided to block over 600,000 debit cards after rumors of a malware infection onRead More →
As we keep a tab on exploit kits, today we are looking at some changes with Sundown EK. Nowhere near as popular as RIG EK, this exploit kit still remains aRead More →
VeraCrypt 1.19 released to fix 8 critical issues. The VeraCrypt project has released version 1.19 to fix a series of security flaws discovered during a recent security audit paid theRead More →
Experts from the White Fir Design discovered cybe rcriminals exploited a zero-day flaw in an e-commerce plugin for WordPress to upload a backdoor. According to the experts from the firmRead More →
Malware hides credit card data inside image files. Hackers are collecting payment card data from Magento stores, hiding the stolen data inside JPG images, which they’re downloading from infected storesRead More →
