Yet another privacy coalition is urging WhatsApp to clarify that user information shared between the company and Facebook is compliant with data protection laws on the books in Europe. The ArticleRead More →
A Windows zero-day vulnerability is being used in an unknown number of attacks, Google disclosed today, 10 days after it privately reported the issue to Microsoft. Google’s disclosure follows itsRead More →
Shadow Brokers identifies hundreds of organizations it claims were hacked by NSA. Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it publishedRead More →
AT&T has been data-mining and willingly sharing user phone data, through its “Hemisphere” Project, which is essentially a mass surveillance program. The NSA may be the well-known governmental entity notoriousRead More →
Sometimes, during security audits, we may encounter a situation where everything is being managed correctly. In other words security patches, policies, network segmentation, antivirus, and user awareness, to name just aRead More →
18-year-old suspect characterizes it as a prank, but police aren’t laughing. Authorities said they arrested an 18-year-old iPhone app developer on charges of felony computer tampering after he unleashed codeRead More →
Short Bytes: Hacktivist group Anonymous has shared a new video and highlighted the strong possibility of World War 3. The collective says that the WWIII is coming soon, citing differentRead More →
Security researchers discovers IRCTelnet malware. A new malware family written by what appears to be an experienced coder is aiming for Linux-based IoT devices, with the main purpose of addingRead More →
HackForums.net has shut down its “Server Stress Testing” section. An online hackers’ forum has deleted a section that allegedly offered paid distributed denial-of-service attacks, following last Friday’s massive internet disruption.Read More →
Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network. Scott Tenaglia, a researcher at endpoint security firmRead More →
The young hacker Mys7erioN announced to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. Data leaked online. Today I was contacted via Twitter by Mys7erioN who revealedRead More →
The malware world continues to develop rapidly and dynamically. On a daily basis new malware appears, accelerating the cat-and-mouse game between attackers and defenders. As a result, it’s more importantRead More →
Rex incorporates some features from the Mirai malware. The Rex Linux malware is not as widespread and efficient as initially thought, and currently, the multi-featured Rex malware is only inRead More →
At the 2016 mobile Pwn2Own event, held on Oct. 26 in Tokyo, security researchers were able to exploit devices that vendors had fully patched. In total, Trend Micro’s Zero DayRead More →
Ryan Collins sent fake e-mails that appeared to be from Apple and Google. A 36-year-old Ryan Collins from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty toRead More →
BLACKGEAR is an espionage campaign which has targeted users in Taiwan for many years. Multiple papers and talks have been released covering this campaign, which used the ELIRKS backdoor when itRead More →
In early October, a hacker named Anna-senpai published the source code of a malware created to automatically scour the internet for poorly secured and easy-to-hack connected devices that could beRead More →
Ukrainian hacking group’s haul shows Russian plans to destabilize Kiev…maybe. MRecently a cache of 2,337 e-mails from the office of a high-ranking advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin was dumped onRead More →
TL;DR Here’s a new code injection technique, dubbed AtomBombing, which exploits Windows atom tables and Async Procedure Calls (APC). Currently, this technique goes undetected by common security solutions that focusRead More →
The latest Android.Lockscreen variants declare their activity as part of the launcher category to get around Android’s security restrictions. New variants of Android.Lockscreen are using a simple, yet effective techniqueRead More →
