Even 2FA can run up against limitations—like this Find My iPhone attack. As a graduate student studying cryptography, security and privacy (CrySP), software engineeringand human-computer interaction, I’ve learned a thing or twoRead More →
Security researchers have revealed several major vulnerabilities in Osram Lightify smart lighting systems which could allow remote hackers to launch browser-based attacks and even access corporate networks. Osram, which sells bothRead More →
Website is currently down, nobody knowns who hacked it. Between July 7 and July 26, the date of the last reported hack, the website of the Harrison city council, townofharrison.com, hasRead More →
GCHQ’s JTRIG team targeted more than hacktivists. Mustafa Al-Bassam, aka tFlow, co-founder of the LulzSec hacking crew, published today more details about how the GCHQ used the covert Joint Threat ResearchRead More →
X-Tunnel is roughly based on XTunnel PortMap. One of the malware variants used to infiltrate and hack the Democratic National Committee (DNC) back in April 2016 is based on aRead More →
In April, an independent researcher launched a tool called OnionScan, which probes dark web sites for various vulnerabilities and other issues. Now, another researcher has described how to deploy thatRead More →
Facebook’s troubles in Brazil seems to be never-ending. The war between the social media giant and the government has been taking on heat for a while as the company-owned messagingRead More →
Scammers exploit the recent a wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing offensive and steal sensitive data from the unaware users. Crooks always exploits the media attention on tragicRead More →
Our team recently discovered a new Android Trojan called SpyNote which facilitates remote spying. The builder, which creates new versions of the malware, recently leaked on several malware discussion forums.Read More →
Short Bytes: Password cracking is an integral part of digital forensics and pentesting. Keeping that in mind, we have prepared a list of the top 10 best password cracking toolsRead More →
Do you know that you can access your WeChat, Line and WhatsApp chats on your desktop as well using an entirely different, but fastest authentication system? It’s SQRL, or SecureRead More →
TIM BRYANT AND Brian Knudson spent two years preparing for the Cyber Grand Challenge, a $55 million hacking contest cooked up by Darpa, the visionary research operation inside the U.S.Read More →
Short Bytes: Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, talked about the decentralization of the torrent ecosystem on TorrentFreak’s audio podcast series Steal The Show. Sunde said that relying onRead More →
A new wave of Locky malware emails have been making the rounds since yesterday — July 20, 2016 — with a critical new development, whereby the Windows executable is nowRead More →
The HTML Source Code Viewer app by Sunuba Gaming poses as a development tool then steals pictures and videos from mobile devices. Last time we blogged about malware on GoogleRead More →
Attackers can collect your HTTPS Web traffic history. Alex Chapman and Paul Stone from Context, a UK cyber security consultancy firm, have discovered a new attack method using the WPAD protocolRead More →
When ransomware authors compete on the black market, sometimes victims benefit. This time we got access to private keys of the Chimera ransomware. They have been leaked online and sharedRead More →
Short Bytes: TOR anonymity network is one of the most useful online security measures that we’ve got. However, attackers have come up with new ways to puncture this security envelopeRead More →
YOU SHOULD BE able to trust your wireless keyboard. And yet security researchers have been warning people to be suspicious of wireless computer accessories using sketchy radio protocols for years.Read More →
Despite being older than many of its users, Short Messaging Service (SMS) remains a very popular communications medium and is increasingly found on remote sensors, critical infrastructure and vehicles dueRead More →
