Hack can be carried out by operators of Wi-Fi hotspots, where HTTPs is needed most. A key guarantee provided by HTTPS encryption is that the addresses of visited websites aren’t visibleRead More →
A new website set up by Europol, Intel and Kaspersky to help resist the threat of ransomware could allow you to recover encrypted data for free. The site is designedRead More →
The official forum for the popular mobile game Clash of Kings is the latest to fall victim to a cyberattack after a hacker broke through its defenses and managed toRead More →
Researchers have crafted a stealthy new way of bypassing Windows User Account Controls (UAC) that opens the door to attacks on targeted systems. According researchers, the bypass technique can fly underRead More →
The security flaw is technically unpatchable. Attackers can intercept keystrokes from wireless keyboards as they are transmitted to nearby computers, can log sensitive data, or even inject malicious commands in theRead More →
Is the Kremlin trying to throw the U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump? It sounds like something out of a spy novel. But many cybersecurity experts, as well as theRead More →
The Indian security expert and bug hunter Avinash has accessed and downloaded the entire Vine source code and it was really easy. A hacker has accessed and downloaded the sourceRead More →
PHP project fixes issues affecting all PHP versions 5.3+ A team of three researchers went so far as to search and discover a PHP zero-day so they could hack PornHub asRead More →
Adwind author still has a lot of work ahead of him. Security researchers have observed an instance of the Adwind RAT dropping a Mac payload for the first time, but despiteRead More →
PayPal recently fixed a vulnerability on its PayPal.me site that could have let an attacker change a user’s profile without permission. The issue stemmed from a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)Read More →
Misbehaving hidden service directories are scattered around the world. The trust of the Tor anonymity network is in many cases only as strong as the individual volunteers whose computers form itsRead More →
Softpedia spoke with Rebirth, co-founder of BinarySec. The Anonymous #OpISIS campaign seemed at one point to have slowly died out after the Charlie Hebdo, Paris, and Belgium attacks, but i isRead More →
Far too many otherwise intelligent and talented software developers these days apparently think they can get away with writing, selling and supporting malicious software and then couching their commerce asRead More →
The US federal authorities asked a 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock his smartphone … will it work? Do you remember the battle Apple vsRead More →
The crooks behind the recent campaign may be from China. Over 100,000 South Koreans had their banking credentials stolen by crooks who leveraged the BlackMoon banking trojan, also detected asRead More →
Device was specifically designed for journalists. Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang have presented today at MIT’s Media Lab a new concept for an iPhone hardwareRead More →
Short Bytes: The founder of the world’s largest torrent hosting website KickassTorrents is now behind the bars. The cause of his arrest are the legal purchases he made on Apple’sRead More →
Android Stagefright like attack for iPhone, All it takes is a specially crafted message to hack your iPhone If you remember the Stagefright vulnerability in Android discovered in July last year, youRead More →
tl;dr: We found 6(!) different common security issues that stem from incorrect implementation of code hooking and injections techniques. These issues were found in more than 15 different products. TheRead More →
A new ransomware has been discovered by AVG malware analyst @JakubKroustek called HolyCrypt. This ransomware is written in Python and compiled into a Windows executable using PyInstaller. This allows the developer to distributeRead More →
