Cyber security group says attack launched against visitors to vessel in South China Sea. Chinese hackers targeted foreign government personnel who visited a US aircraft carrier the day before aRead More →
Update DNS provider Dyn has confirmed two massive distributed denial of service attacks against its servers Friday impacting many of its customers including Twitter, Spotify and GitHub. The attacks came inRead More →
Trojan targets desktops, not servers or IoT devices. Malware authors are taking aim at Linux computers, more precisely desktops and not servers, with a new trojan named FakeFile, currently distributed inRead More →
In writing the most recent Hack This (“Scrape the Web with Beautiful Soup”) I again found myself trapped between the competing causes of blog-brevity and making sure everything is totallyRead More →
It’s still not clear if Harold Martin was connected to the “Shadow Brokers” NSA dump. In a new Thursday court filing, federal prosecutors expanded their accusations against a former National SecurityRead More →
Malicious actors are abusing a free VoIP service for gamers to distribute remote access Trojans, as well as infostealers and downloaders. Discord, a free VoIP service designed for gaming communities,Read More →
Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually all versions of the LinuxRead More →
Bit.ly-based phishing links targeted former Sec. of State, Clinton campaign chair. The breach of personal e-mail accounts for Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta and former Secretary of State Colin Powell haveRead More →
Yesterday, GData malware analyst Karsten Hahn discovered an in-development ransomware disguised as a click me game. When executed the ransomware will launch a screen that contains a Click Me button that a userRead More →
Adult website Adult FriendFinder may have been compromised by a hacker who said he has gained access to the site’s backend servers and posted allegedly compromised data to his Twitter feed. TheRead More →
“Common sense” is an oft-prescribed remedy for email-based malware threats: Don’t click on unknown links, don’t enable macros in documents from unknown senders, don’t even read emails from unknown senders.Read More →
Information Security experts have discovered an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability in Joomla component ja-k2-filter-and-search. Information Security Researchers Dimitrios Roussis and Evangelos Apostoloudis have discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in componentRead More →
Russian man drove luxury car, then collapsed after being apprehended, police say. An alleged Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic following an FBI-coordinated tip-off is suspected of taking part in aRead More →
“Side channel” in Haswell CPUs lets researchers bypass protection known as ASLR. Researchers have devised a technique that bypasses a key security protection built into just about every operating system. IfRead More →
FBI is asking for the suspects extradition. Following a collaboration with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Czech national police announced yesterday the arrested of a man on suspicion ofRead More →
Biggest credit card replacement in India’s history. The State Bank of India (SBI) said today it decided to block over 600,000 debit cards after rumors of a malware infection onRead More →
As we keep a tab on exploit kits, today we are looking at some changes with Sundown EK. Nowhere near as popular as RIG EK, this exploit kit still remains aRead More →
Even if you have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint it is possible to unlock it. 1. Introduction You have an iPhoneRead More →
VeraCrypt 1.19 released to fix 8 critical issues. The VeraCrypt project has released version 1.19 to fix a series of security flaws discovered during a recent security audit paid theRead More →
Spear-phishing and malware at the root of the intrusion.From November 2015 to June 2016, hackers targeted researchers at the University of Toyama’s Hydrogen Isotope Research Center, the University told JapaneseRead More →
