We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare… and backups? Cockrell Hill, Texas has a population of just over 4,000 souls and a police force thatRead More →
Top law enforcement officers, FBI director James Comey and Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, are supportive of giving law enforcement means to sidestep encryption. It seems likelyRead More →
At the end of last year, Mozilla hurriedly patched a zero-day vulnerability for Firefox that had been used against targets in the wild. Shortly after, Motherboard found that the relatedRead More →
LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access to a database of more than 3.1 billion compromised accountRead More →
The VirLocker ransomware made a comeback this past week with a new and very virulent version, but the Malwarebytes security team says there’s a way for victims to recover filesRead More →
Short Bytes: Pattern lock on Android smartphones is probably the quickest and easiest way to gain access to the device. A group of researchers has a created a computer visionRead More →
Security researchers have uncovered a new trojan that targets Linux devices that is capable of transforming infected machines into proxy servers and relay malicious traffic, hiding the true origin ofRead More →
A newly observed spam campaign is spreading a ransomware variant known as Sage 2.0 that is demanding a $2,000 ransom for the decryption key. Sage 2.0 is a new ransomwareRead More →
If it wants a password and doesn’t use HTTPS, Mozilla will breathe fire. Shoddy sites will have fewer places to hide with Firefox joining Chrome in badging cleartext sites thatRead More →
Over 200,000 messages were compromised due to a security flaw. One of the largest trading posts on the Dark Web, AlphaBay, has rewarded a researcher for disclosing the existence ofRead More →
Security researcher Sebastian Krahmer has recently discovered that a previously known security flaw in the systemd project can be used for more than crashing a Linux distro but also toRead More →
An unknown hacker is accessing public and unsecured Apache Cassandra databases and adding an extra table through which it warns server owners that their DB was left exposed to onlineRead More →
Android malware known as HummingBad, that infected as many as 10 million devices in 2016, has resurfaced with several new features allowing it to perform ad fraud even more efficientlyRead More →
The censorship state wants to enforce government control over software which can circumvent China’s Great Firewall. The Chinese government has launched a fresh campaign to take down and control censorship-thwartingRead More →
Facebook has fixed a serious security bug that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video shared by anyone on their wall. A new bug was discovered inRead More →
What’s interesting when I come across a new piece of software is how the initial impressions change after reading the code. If you’re looking to setup a new YouTube® styleRead More →
Publicly known “magic string” lets any site run malicious code, no questions asked. The Chrome browser extension for Cisco Systems WebEx communications and collaboration service was just updated to fixRead More →
The Defense Digital Services (DDS) group is tasked with pioneering private sector solutions to solve some of the Department of Defense’s most complex problems. And pioneers they are. Back inRead More →
Reports suggest a large-scale DDoS attack from overseas blocked Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland customers from accessing online services. International cyberattackers have targeted one of the UK’s largest bankingRead More →
Antivirus firm Dr. Web spotted a new Android malware dubbed BankBot that is based on a source code that was leaked on an underground forum. Bad news for Android users,Read More →
