Over the last two years, deep in the slums of the Internet, a different kind of underground market has flourished. The short, cryptic name perhaps doesn’t say much about it:Read More →
In the coming age of autonomous cars, connected cars, and cars that can communicate with each other, the city’s infrastructure, our phones, and the entire internet of things, data securityRead More →
Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according toRead More →
Vpon is one of many mobile ad SDKs marketed towards mainland Chinese and Taiwanese developers and app users. Recently, FireEye mobile security researchers identified a branch of Vpon ad SDKRead More →
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ isRead More →
A DODGY new device can clone up to 15 contactless bank cards every second. Crooks use the hi-tech hacking unit to fund shopping sprees using stolen details. The scanner skims detailsRead More →
Using multiple devices that run on one platform makes life easier for a lot of people. However, if a malware affects one of these devices, the said malware may eventuallyRead More →
North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attackRead More →
A new ransomware was discovered by security researchers@JAMES_MHT and @benkow_ called RAA that is made 100% from JavaScript. In the past we had seen a ransomware called Ransom32 that was created using NodeJS andRead More →
Fake Twitter account for Pulse nightclub asks for “contributions” through scam site. The vultures have already begun to descend on the tragedy in Orlando, Florida. A fake Twitter account claimingRead More →
One piece of advice that often appears in closed message boards used by Russian cybercriminals is “Don’t work with RU”. This is a kind of instruction given by more experiencedRead More →
A short while ago, slipstream/RoL dropped an exploit for the ASUS memory mapping driver (ASMMAP/ASMMAP64) which was vulnerable to complete physical memory access (read/write) to unprivileged users, allowing for localRead More →
THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence — including the possibility of exploiting internet-connected biomedical devices like pacemakers, according to a senior official. “We’re looking atRead More →
The recently-defunct company was once the third-largest music and video file sharing service in the US. Users accounts for iMesh, a now defunct file sharing service, are for sale onRead More →
Attackers take social engineering to a totally new level. There’s a sneaky new trick going around that can fool some people into divulging their two-factor authentication code to crooks, while thinkingRead More →
The Bolek banking Trojan is one of the successors of the notorious Carberp Trojan that targets both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. When the source code of the Carberp Trojan wasRead More →
Microsoft says it’s for debugging, not spying. Internet users have pulled out the pitchforks and are once again at odds with Microsoft regarding telemetry data, but this time around it’s becauseRead More →
When Wi-Fi was first developed in the late 1990s, Wired Equivalent Privacy was created to give wireless communications confidentiality. WEP, as it became known, proved terribly flawed and easily cracked.Read More →
When the FBI was trying to break into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, many assumed that the NSA would have the technical capability to do so. Turns out, one ofRead More →
How Chipzilla and Microsoft hope to get one step ahead of hackers. Intel is pushing a neat technique that could block malware infections on computers at the processor level. That’s theRead More →
