It was one of those warm summer nights, no clouds, just a bright full moon lighting the way. Someone had unknowingly stumbled upon our honeypot, completely unaware of the factRead More →
Security flaw affects Chromium browsers & WebView component. A security bug in Google’s V8 JavaScript engine is indirectly affecting around one in 16 Android devices, impacting smartphone models from allRead More →
The online storage platform Dropbox suffered a massive blow back in August when the company learned that over 60 million of its user accounts got hacked and credentials stolen byRead More →
The newly-discovered bug gives attackers the chance to execute code through the open-source JPEG 2000 codec. Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a severe zero-day flaw in the OpenJPEG JPEG 2000Read More →
Recent research on web security and related topics. Provided and maintained by members and friends of the Chair for Network and Data Security, Horst Görtz Institute, Ruhr-University Bochum. Do youRead More →
Microsoft is planning to make its internally-used ‘white-box fuzzing’ bug-detection service available to external customers and partners. Microsoft is looking for testers for a new bug-detection service that will runRead More →
Yesterday, I stumbled on a post where a Reddit user named Haydaddict was alerting people about some hacked Steam accounts spreading malware. As I am always interested in new malware, I took a lookRead More →
AS IOS AND Android mature, the stand-off between platforms and hackers escalates in kind. Each release brings new security measures, while those who want to break in—nation-state intelligence agencies andRead More →
Kaspersky posted a great article about their TeamXrat Ransomware analysis and how they were able to create a decryptor for its victims. Reported back in mid September in our forums, I and other security researchersRead More →
Now, this first one isn’t such a huge issue as it would require physical proximity to the router, at the same time that the user is trying to do aRead More →
