THREE AND A half years after he sought temporary asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London only to find himself a captive instead, a UN group has ruled that UKRead More →
Experts at the SANS Technology Institute spotted an OS X scareware campaign that leverages fake Adobe Flash Player installers. Johannes Ullrich, security expert at the SANS Technology Institute, spotted anRead More →
Newly Discovered Lock Screen Passcode Bypass Flaw affects iPhones 5, 6, and iPad 2. A security researcher has discovered a new flaw that can allow an attacker to quickly bypass iPhone andRead More →
Relive simpler times for some Friday fun. The Internet Archive has opened a new collection dubbed the Malware Museum that lets you run old DOS-era viruses in your web browser. ThereRead More →
Another antivirus maker decides to mess around with Chromium default security features and gets it totally wrong. Just two days after Comodo’s Chromodo browser was publicly shamed by Google ProjectRead More →
According to the NSW Government Department of Resources and Energy Chinese hackers have launched a malware-based attack on its network in December. The Australian NSW Government Department of Resources andRead More →
Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus. Avira reckons the pwnage is downRead More →
A security researcher has released the exploit code for two serious vulnerabilities in the Netgear ProSAFE NMS300 network management system. Do you have a Netgear ProSAFE NMS300 Management System? Now you haveRead More →
The reuse of login details on Alibaba’s Taobao has allowed an attack on 5 percent of the accounts on Alibaba’s Chinese retail sites. Hackers in China have attempted to accessRead More →
Dell and Cylance join the fight against bootkits. Dell has announced a partnership with Cylance, which will add a new security layer for its line of motherboards, a BIOS integrity verificationRead More →
In this tutorial, we will explore where and what the forensic investigator can find information about the activities of the suspect in their web browser. It’s important to note thatRead More →
FOR THE LAST three years, the evolution of firearms has been playing out all over again in plastic form: Deadly, working guns that anyone can generate with a download andRead More →
Backdoor code was committed by a former Oracle employee. Developers of Socat, a *NIX-based networking utility, have discovered and patched a security bug affecting its encryption capabilities and that weakened theRead More →
Short Bytes: The Dark Web is the World Wide Web content that exists in the darkness. The Dark Web consists of networks which use the public Internet but require specificRead More →
Short Bytes: In a video found on the YouTube channel of Samy Kamkar, a USB drive beaded in a necklace has been shown which is capable of doing some really dangerousRead More →
DMA Locker is another ransomware that appeared at the beginning of this year. For now it has been observed to be active only on a small scale (source) – butRead More →
The Comodo app also replaces links and hijacks DNS. Developers have exposed the fact that Comodo Internet Security is actually a security threat for anyone using it. It’s using a reallyRead More →
For our most recent IoT adventure, we’ve examined an outdoor cloud security camera which like many devices of its generation a) has an associated mobile app b) is quick toRead More →
Wikileaks founder Julain Assange can be a free man this Friday — His fate depends on the decision from United Nation’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). Julian Assange, Wikileaks founderRead More →
JSF**k JavaScript library abused to deliver malware. Security researchers have alerted eBay’s staff about a vulnerability in its online platform that lets attackers launch phishing sites and push malware toRead More →
