Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to put millions of home networking devices at risk for compromise. The latest was revealed in early August, but promptedRead More →
Fears that malware is hiding in people’s graphics chipsets may be overclocked, according to Intel Security. Earlier this year, researchers from the self-styled “Team JellyFish” released a proof-of-concept software nastyRead More →
Worried about Windows 10’s deep-reaching user tracking? Some of it’s coming to Windows 7 and 8, too. Windows 10 is a deliciously good operating system, all things considered, but itsRead More →
Cyber-attackers launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) violation on law enforcement agency in apparent revenge for previous arrests. Cyber-attackers have taken down the website of the National Crime Agency (NCA)Read More →
A brand-new advanced banking Trojan discovered in the wild has been named “Shifu” by IBM Security X-Force, after the Japanese word for thief. The malware appears to have been activeRead More →
Security experts at Sensecy have uncovered ORX-Locker, a Darknet Ransomware-as-a-service platform that could allow everyone to become a cyber criminal. It is becoming even easier to become a cyber-criminal thanksRead More →
A new piece of data-stealing malware has a real thirst for credentials—and the potential for worse trouble down the line. IBM today published a report on CoreBot, generic information-stealing malwareRead More →
A newly discovered malware family that preys on jailbroken iPhones has collected login credentials for more than 225,000 Apple accounts, making it one of the largest Apple account compromises toRead More →
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued an alert, urging users to watch out for a spear phishing email campaign that’s infecting victims with the Sednit malware. This was broughtRead More →
ussian-speaking hackers have breached 97 websites, mostly dating-related, and stolen login credentials, putting hundreds of thousands of users at risk. Many of the websites are niche dating ones similar toRead More →
Google’s OnHub is a bit of a mystery. Google shipped us this box—well, this cylinder—but it won’t really talk about what’s in it or why it exists. Today, it’s aRead More →
Ilya Karpov of Russian security outfit Positive Technologies has reported nine vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control system kit used in critical operations from petrochemical labs and power plants up toRead More →
British police have today announced the arrest of six people in connection with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that attempted to bring down websites belonging to – amongst others – aRead More →
The former FireEye intern that was arrested during the Darkode forum FBI crackdown has pleaded guilty and is now facing up to 10 years in prison and a fine ofRead More →
It’s the third bug of the year for Facebook bounty hunter Laxman Muthiyah. At the start of 2015 he noticed that if you could view a photo album on Facebook,Read More →
Six teenagers, including an 18-year-old from West Yorkshire, have been arrested on suspicion of launching cyber attacks using a service created by a notorious hacking group which previously targeted XboxRead More →
A massive uptick in malvertising has taken place over the last few years and is becoming so popular that it may become the top technique used for drive by attacks,Read More →
Reflective technique would let attacker amplify traffic and flood targets. BitTorrent has fixed a flaw in its technology that quietly turns file-sharing networks into weapons capable of blasting websites andRead More →
