Patch to drop 1400 UTC, Tuesday. And the haste of its release suggests this is scary. The world’s second-favourite content management system, Joomla!, is warning of a critical security holeRead More →
A surprising number of critical infrastructure participants do, too, study finds. A surprisingly large number of critical infrastructure participants—including chemical manufacturers, nuclear and electric plants, defense contractors, building operators andRead More →
I am the stereotypical Apple fan boy that other bloggers write about. We have MacBook Pro’s, Air’s, Apple TV’s, iPhone’s and iPad’s and even subscribe to Apple Music. You literally couldn’tRead More →
My article will tell you how to accept 10 million packets per second without using such libraries as Netmap, PF_RING, DPDK and other. We are going to do this withRead More →
Apple has distributed a fresh round of security updates to address remote-code execution holes in iOS, macOS, Safari, and the firmware for Apple Watch and AppleTV. Miscreants who exploit theseRead More →
New rooting technique is believed to work against every version. There’s a new method for rooting Android devices that’s believed to work reliably on every version of the mobile operating systemRead More →
To further show how ransomware is such a pile of crap, a new version of Locky has been released that appends the .shit extension on encrypted files. Like previous variants, this ransomware is installed usingRead More →
A number of the company’s US-sold products were used in the attack, which prevented millions of users from accessing dozens of high-profile websites. A Chinese manufacturer of internet-connected surveillance camerasRead More →
This post takes a quick look at Sphinx’s domain generation algorithm (DGA). Sphinx,another Zeus-based banking trojan variant, has been around circa August 2015. The DGA domains are used as aRead More →
Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your router secure? “Are we ready to live in a worldRead More →
Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. Researchers have devised an attack that gains unfettered “root” access to a large number of Android phones, exploitingRead More →
Researchers at InTheCyber firm have discovered a new easy exploitable and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. InTheCyber – Intelligence & Defense Advisors (www.inthecyber.com), a leader in offensive & Defensive Cyber Security,Read More →
The East Coast was under siege on Friday morning from a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought down more than a dozen prominent websites, including Twitter, Spotify,Read More →
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 →
