Manufacturer will pay $2.2 million and delete data to settle privacy-invasion charges. Vizio, one of the world’s biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges thatRead More →
A Minnesota federal judge must hold hearings to determine whether a proposed settlement for about 100 million Target customers who were victims of a 2013 security breach treats all customersRead More →
Polish banks are frantically scanning their workstations and servers while checking logs in the search of signs of infection after some of them noticed unusual network activity and unauthorised files on keyRead More →
Massive log file includes user complaints, apparently legitimate developer requests. The developers at Denuvo have been in the news thanks to cracks against their notoriously tough digital rights management (DRM) tools, whichRead More →
Canonical announced a few hours ago the availability of new kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, patching a total of seven security issues across all of them.Read More →
If you get taken down by this 13-year-old malware, you probably deserve it. One of the world’s most famous net menaces, SQL Slammer, has resumed attacking servers some 13 yearsRead More →
Anonymous hackers have breached Freedom Hosting II, a popular Dark Web hosting provider, and have taken down 10,613 .onion sites. Since all websites were interconnected by Freedom Hosting II’s underlyingRead More →
Three apps on Google Play use delayed attacks, self-naming tricks, and an attack list dictated by a command and control server to click on ads in the background without theRead More →
Vulnerability had been known for nearly a year, flared up shortly after inauguration. A certain model of Low Power FM radio transmitter with known vulnerabilities has been targeted in aRead More →
The hacker targeted PoliceOne.com in 2015, stealing 715,000 members’ accounts, including FBI and DHS staff. A data broker is selling hundreds of thousands of accounts used by police and federalRead More →
A ransomware infection that took root on late Tuesday night, January 31, affected several services provided by the local Licking County (Ohio) government infrastructure. The Linking County Commissioner’s Office acknowledgedRead More →
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization was hacked last Friday, but members were only just informed. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) was hit by hackers whoRead More →
The Metasploit hacking toolkit now includes a new hardware bridge that makes it easier for users to analyze hardware devices. The popular offensive hacking toolkit Metasploit now is powerful, itRead More →
The hacker says this demonstrates that when organizations make hacking tools, those techniques will eventually find their way to the public. In January, Motherboard reported that a hacker had stolenRead More →
The Russia-linked cyber espionage group known as Turla has been using a new piece of JavaScript malware to profile victims, Kaspersky Lab reported on Thursday. Turla is the name ofRead More →
As part of a vulnerability research project for our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), we have been auditing multiple open source projects looking for security issues. While working on WordPress, we discoveredRead More →
Twitter is now the target of a phishing attack that uses methods to trick brand managers and social influencers into fake account verification. Security firm Proofpoint discovered the phishing attack,Read More →
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 →
