A self-proclaimed member of the Anonymous hacker collective is behind a campaign to spread the Houdini RAT and is currently looking into deploying the MoWare H.F.D ransomware. The name ofRead More →
US Secretary of Homeland Security Gen. John Kelly revealed in an interview over the weekend that the US might expand its current laptop ban to all flights into the USRead More →
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese company that operates an online service that sells virtual gaming currencies, accusing the company of hacking into Xbox accounts and illegally purchasingRead More →
British Airways canceled all its flights from London’s two biggest airports on Saturday after a global computer system failure caused confusion and chaos, with thousands of passengers queuing for hoursRead More →
The impact of data breaches can be measured in a company’s share price and customer churn. A data breach can have a significant affect on a company’s share price: howRead More →
The Fast-food chain Chipotle notified users a security breach, hackers compromised its point of sale terminals to steal payment card data. The Mexican Grill Fast-food chain Chipotle notified users aRead More →
The four major makers aren’t properly securing critical cardiac devices, report says. Pacemakers are devices that are implanted in the chest or abdomen to control life-threatening heartbeat abnormalities. Once they’reRead More →
Google has removed 41 Android apps from the official Play Store. The apps were infected with a new type of malware named Judy, and experts estimate the malware infected betweenRead 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 →
Following years of criticism and user requests, the FileZilla FTP client is finally adding support for a master password that will act as a key for storing FTP login credentialsRead 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 →
Voting models and other leaked data were “worth millions,” consultant told Guccifer 2.0. A Florida GOP campaign consultant who runs a blog under a pseudonym directly contacted the hackers behindRead More →
On May 21st, a security researcher who goes by the name Thyrex, received a message on a Russian forum that contained a link to a ZIP file that supposedly contained aRead 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 →
An eight-month-long investigation by Roman Unuchek, a security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, has uncovered one of the most complex malware distribution schemes seen to date on the Android malwareRead 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 →
The volume of 64-bit malware in the wild remains low even though computers running 64-bit operating systems became ubiquitous years ago. The vast majority (93 per cent) of new computersRead More →
