With the year-end shopping season over, many consumers now have new various smart gadgets in their homes. One particularly popular usage of this so-called Internet of Things (IoT) are smart TVs. TheseRead More →
A new malware campaign is aiming specifically at businesses and consumers using the WhatsApp mobile messaging service. Uncovered by researchers at Comodo Labs the campaign uses emails masquerading as WhatsAppRead More →
Short Bytes: Last year, the FBI engaged in the largest ever law enforcement hacking campaign to shut down “the largest remaining known child pornography hidden service in the world.” TheRead More →
Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that uses stolen certificates to evade detection. In late December, security experts at Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that usesRead More →
Short Bytes: Ghost Squad Hackers group has taken down multiple .gov websites in Ethiopia. The collective has blamed the government for killing “students for opposing the ‘master plan’ to expandRead More →
A number of weeks back, security researcher Parvez Anwar posted a number of DLL hijacking vulnerabilities within Microsoft Office on Twitter [1]. The following week, Microsoft released MS15-132, which addressedRead More →
IOActive’s Fernando Arnaboldi has sounded the alarm on three major flaws in Drupal’s update process that may allow attackers to poison Drupal installations via update packages and in worst caseRead More →
Encrypting all HTTP traffic has long been considered a key security goal, but there have been two key obstacles to this. First, certificates are not free and many owners areRead More →
The security-focused smartphone contained vulnerabilities which allow hackers to control the device’s modem and call functions. Researchers have revealed a severe vulnerability in Silent Circle’s Blackphone which could allow attackers toRead More →
Malware was infecting machines, adding them to its botnet.Similar-looking malware targeting both Linux and Windows computers has been linked to a DDoSing toolkit sold by Chinese hackers via the ddos[.]tfRead More →
Short Bytes: Being Anonymous online is the need of the hour, and TOR browser does that job quite efficiently and honestly. But there are some things that you need toRead More →
The US Government issued a final rule implementing the Executive Order 13694. US can apply economic sanctions in response to cyber attacks. According to a final rule published in the FederalRead More →
IT’S BEEN MORE than 30 years since David Chaum launched the ideas that would serve as much of the groundwork for anonymity online. In doing so, he also helped sparkRead More →
802.11ah could be too expensive and too late. The Wi-Fi Alliance has formally unveiled the 802.11ah Wi-Fi standard, dubbed HaLow, which has been designed for low-power, high-range uses by connected InternetRead More →
Look who’s back? The Dark Web Hacking Forum ‘Hell’ Just months after users speculated that the infamous dark web hacking forum, ‘Hell’ was shut for good, it has made a comeback.Read More →
Lucky Linux server admins are lucky, ransomware is still a dud, fails to properly hide its encryption key. The Linux.Encoder ransomware has received a third update, which security researchers from BitdefenderRead More →
Despite calls to eliminate Adobe Flash Player, researchers inside and outside the vendor continue to invest in and build mitigations against modern attacks. As recently as three weeks ago, AdobeRead More →
Highly destructive malware creates “destructive events” at 3 Ukrainian substations. Highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine led to a power failure that left hundredsRead More →
Last month, it was revealed that Juniper Networks’ routers/firewalls were hacked. It was reported that a backdoor was implanted in the operating system of their routers/firewalls and that attackers couldRead More →
A second misconfigured database has been discovered by Chris Vickery containing data of US voters, including 19 million profiles with private information on religion, gun ownership and more. A coupleRead More →
