Russian authorities don’t take kindly to crooks attacking their own banks, come down hard on Fedotov. Dmitry Fedotov, 29, the Russian national that developed the Blackhole exploit kit was sentenced toRead More →
Update only addresses its own wireless devices. Along with its regular monthly security updates, Microsoft also released some optional updates, among which is one for a superstar vulnerability discovered this pastRead More →
Adware installers are out of control and with little or no law regulating them, the crap they push onto their victims is getting worse and worse. Yesterday, while looking throughRead More →
Security firm urges Windows users to uninstall media player. If your Windows computer is running Apple’s QuickTime media player, now would be a good time to uninstall it. The Windows appRead More →
DDOS attacks are a fact of life these days, it would seem. People were having trouble logging into Blizzard games such as Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft last night,Read More →
Google made a self-driving bicycle for the people of Netherlands. In the spring of 2016, Google will introduce the self-driving bicycle in Amsterdam which is also known as the world’sRead More →
Threat level is not high, the virus requires users to give it root privileges in order to infect their computers. After being bombarded with new malware towards the end ofRead More →
You can still brick an iPhone running on iOS 9.3 using January 1, 1970 bug and public Wi-Fi. If you are sitting in an Coffee Cafe Day outlet and suddenly youRead More →
Modems in a number of Samsung Galaxy devices are open to receiving AT commands over the USB cable even when they are locked. Do you know that modems in aRead More →
Lottery boss wins $16.5 million in six years by tampering random number generator. According to The Des Moines Register, in a case from last year, new details have been disclosed thatRead More →
A group of security researchers has found a security flaw in the Apple iMessage that exposed chat history and sensitive data with a single click. Recently WhatsApp has introduced the end-to-endRead More →
Sasha Levin kicks off ‘security tree’ side project. Linux developer Sasha Levin has kicked off a project in which he proposes gathering up kernel security fixes under a single tree. TheRead More →
Short Bytes: Two Google developers, Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot, have uploaded a draft document to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Incubator Community Group (W3C WICG), describing a new wayRead More →
I had almost forgotten about my experience with Worldpay’s Merchant Portal from just over a year ago, but my recent post regarding another payment processor helped to refresh my memory. IRead More →
Ramdo is a family of malware that performs fraudulent website ‘clicks.’ Ramdo malware activity first surfaced in late 2013 and has since continued to infect machines worldwide, primarily through theRead More →
Attacks against home routers have been going around for years—from malware that rigs routers to DNS rebinding attacks and backdoors, among others. Just last year one of our researchers reportedRead More →
Rokku is yet another ransomware, discovered in recent weeks. Currently, it’s most common distribution method is spam where a malicious executable is dropped by a VB script belonging to the e-mail’sRead More →
US judge orders Apple to help FBI with iPhone unlocking in two more cases. And so the deluge begins! This is exactly what Apple was talking about when it opposed hackingRead More →
A new ransomware has been released that not only encrypts your files, but also deletes them if you take too long to make the ransom payment of $150 USD. The Jigsaw Ransomware,Read More →
Your chat history on iMessage just went through a period when it was not altogether safe, but now, all wrongs have been righted thanks to an OS X update. ARead More →
