Researcher-devised exploit threatens Bitcoin wallets and other high-value assets. Researchers have devised an attack on Android and iOS devices that successfully steals cryptographic keys used to protect Bitcoin wallets, Apple PayRead More →
A group of researchers that analyzed security of a number of smart watches discovered a $17 smartwatch is sold with a backdoor in the pairing app. Be careful of cheap smartwatchRead More →
Sea pirates hire hacker to break into shipping company’s CMS. A curious case reported by Verizon’s RISK Team shows that even those lowly sea pirates chasing after cargo ships with oldRead More →
French Gov is thinking a law that would impose fines of €1 million on Apple and Google if they refused providing access users’data. Governments worldwide continue to intensify their pressureRead More →
WinRT PDF exposes users to drive-by attacks. WinRT PDF, the default PDF reader for Windows 10, opens Edge users to a new series of attacks that are incredibly similar to howRead More →
Hack the Pentagon – DoD would invite outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public US Defense Department resources as part of a pilot initiative. Which is the bestRead More →
FBI Director James Comey has admitted that investigators made a “mistake” after the shooting in San Bernardino when they reset the iCloud password associated with one of the shooters, SyedRead More →
Locky is a new ransomware that has been released (most probably) by the Dridex gang (source). Not surprisingly, it is well prepared, which means that the threat actor behind itRead More →
Short Bytes: Brazilian police have arrested Diego Dzodan, Facebook’s Latin American regional vice-president, for failing to provide WhatsApp messages related to a case of drug-trafficking. In response, Facebook has said that WhatsAppRead More →
Spam campaign baits users with Visa Total Rewards emails containing malware that leads to Trojan.Cryptolocker.N infections. Spam related to credit cards is a typical scam observed on a daily basis. SomeRead More →
Security experts presented the DROWN attack that exploits a new critical security vulnerability affecting the OpenSSL. Security experts have discovered a new critical security vulnerability affecting the OpenSSL, it hasRead More →
Spam posts on Facebook are nothing new. Since videos continue to be a staple form of entertainment—a whopping 8 billion views per day according to last year’s numbers—within the socialRead More →
Pi will still run 32-bit operating systems, but it’ll be 50% faster. The third major version of the Raspberry Pi will go on sale Monday, with the $35/£30 credit card-sized RaspberryRead More →
Incident occurred after employee responded to e-mail phish scam. In a blog post on Sunday, Snapchat executives revealed that the payroll data of some current and former employees was exposed asRead More →
Until recently, sample wasn’t detected by any of the top antivirus programs. Researchers have uncovered what appears to be newly developed Mac malware from HackingTeam, a discovery that’s prompting speculation thatRead More →
4.1% of all sanctioned cloud apps are laced with malware. During the past month, cloud security analysts have seen more and more malware spreading from one PC to another in aRead More →
If your corporate network is connected to the Internet, you are doing business on the Internet, you manage web applications that keep confidential information or you are a provider ofRead More →
The journalist Steven Petrow had his computer hacked while on a plane, it was a shocking experience that raises the discussion on privacy. Experts in the aviation industry are spendingRead More →
Short Bytes: When you read the headlines like “FBI is forcing Apple to create a backdoor in their products”, what you are really reading is that the FBI is forcing iPhone-makerRead More →
‘Sybil’ nodes could be used to de-anonymise traffic. The Tor Project is working with Princeton University boffins to try and identify possibly malicious nodes, and prevent them from harvesting traffic byRead More →
