Google engineers have addressed a serious user privacy bug that affected only versions of the Android operating system installed on the company’s latest line of Pixel smartphones. According to GoogleRead More →
A single malware-laden message can crash your iPhone and disable messages App permanently. If you own an iPhone you should read this article carefully and avoid clicking on messages with suspiciousRead More →
Facebook has started nudging people to not only create live videos, but consume them too. An update automatically pushes more live video to your smartphone screen. A bunch of peopleRead More →
Google says it paid over $1.2 million just for XSS bugs. Google released two new tools called CSP Evaluator and CSP Mitigator that help security researchers identify weaknesses that areRead More →
A security expert discovered a vulnerability in the MONyog tool that could be exploited by a normal user to elevate his privilege access. The security researcher and penetration tester Mutail MohamedRead More →
US issued JAR billed itself as an indictment that would prove Russian involvement. Talk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of theRead More →
Police in Shelton, Connecticut have arrested a teenager for launching DDoS attacks on his/her former high school’s network. According to a Shelton Police press release, the yet unnamed teenager wasRead More →
Short Bytes: Fossbytes has prepared a useful list of the best hacking tools of 2017 based upon industry reviews, your feedback, and its own experience. This list has been verfiedRead More →
Windows 10 Insider builds will now feature a Green Screen of Death (GSOD) instead of the classic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error page we have all become accustomed to.Read More →
PHP 7 is affected by an unpatched vulnerability that opens servers running the latest branch of the PHP programming language to attacks. The vulnerability, yet unpatched is part of aRead More →
Steganography, the technique of embedding hidden messages inside public files, has become very popular with exploit kit operators in 2016. Several security firms have detected multiple updates to exploit kitsRead More →
The US charged three Chinese nationals with hacking two New York law firms and stealing data from their email servers, which they later used to make a profit on theRead More →
Each new release of Apple’s desktop operating system seems to place more restrictions on users than the last. System Integration Protection (or SIP for short) might be the biggest change yet.Read More →
It is good to know that nowadays, developers have started paying attention to security while building websites. Almost everyone is aware of SQL Injection. Herein, I would like to discussRead More →
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab discovered an interesting one-stop-shop for purchasing hacking goods while investigating activity of a popular RAT. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab discovered an interesting one-stop-shop forRead More →
Last week, a report published by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has made it crystal clear that the US governmentRead More →
Security firms have been warning us for more than a year about the possibility of Android malware jumping from phones and tablets to other Android-powered devices, such smart TVs. TheRead More →
Ransim is a ransomware simulator for Windows that simulates attacks of ten ransomware families against the computer system. Ransomware is without doubt a relatively new threat category that has gainedRead More →
Recently, in our never-ending quest to protect the world from malware, we found a misbehaving Android trojan. Although malware targeting the Android OS stopped being a novelty quite some timeRead More →
Open source Android ROM project dies, developers launch fork. Cyanogen Inc., the company built around the CyanogenMod open source Android OS ROM project, declined a acquisition offer by Google twoRead More →
