Coding snafu leads to prisoners getting out of jail too soon.Washington state Governor Jay Inslee has admitted to a software error on the part of the Washington State Department ofRead More →
Hyatt Hotels Corp said on Wednesday that its payment processing system was infected with credit-card-stealing malware in an attack discovered three weeks ago, the latest in a series of breachesRead More →
The Raspberry Pi Foundation was offered cash to smuggle malware onto its bargain-basement credit-card-size computers, we’re told. Liz Upton, the Foundation’s director of communications, today revealed an email from aRead More →
An email popped into the inbox of a famous radio host this month, sent by a young man from the Bahamas, with an offer he hoped would turn the headRead More →
Last year I together with my friend Sourav Kar made the world’s smallest code which could crash whatsapp. In a video demonstration, we have showed that how a 2000 wordsRead More →
Cybercriminals are using the friendly face of Facebook and Twitter to distribute banking trojans that are specifically targeting Brazilians. The attackers are targeting Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users and are using social engineeringtacticsRead More →
Quantum cryptography, considered to be one of the most complex and unbreakable methods of encryption, has been found to be vulnerable to attack, according to a major new study. PublishedRead More →
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. BobRead More →
The websites of the torrent clients Deluge and qBittorrent, as well as the torrent site SumoTorrent, have reportedly been compromised. Access to the stolen user information including emails and hashedRead More →
A security researcher discovered a new variant of the Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player flaw. The French security researcher “Kafeine”Read More →
Commission faults Oracle’s Java SE update process with making consumers’ computers insecure. Oracle received a public slap on the wrist from the US Federal Trade Commission over Java SE, the desktopRead More →
SANRIO, THE TOKYO-BASED owner of the Hello Kitty brand, may be Japan’s global purveyor of kitschy cuteness. But the leak of 3.3 million of their website’s registered users’ data isn’tRead More →
Some lucky users are about to have a merry Christmas.Users that had the bad luck of getting infected with the Gomasom ransomware can now start sending Christmas gifts to FabianRead More →
Microsoft SmartScreen, integrated with Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and the Windows operating system, has helped protect users from socially engineered attacks such as phishing and malware downloads since its initialRead More →
Imagine this. Your girlfriend needs to type a very important report for her Accounting class but she forgot the password to her MacBook Pro. She tries and tries, but keepsRead More →
Banking industry needs more time, has too much on its plate.The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced that it has pushed back the mandatory migration dateRead More →
OS X: NetSpot is a free utility that makes it easy to map out your wireless network, do a site survey if you have a particularly large one to manage,Read More →
After VTech, another kids service suffers a data breach.Personal details on 3.3 million accounts of Hello Kitty fans are available online, most of which are probably belonging to children, asRead More →
Security experts have warned US businesses which still haven’t invested in chip and PIN (EMV) readers to remain extra vigilant this holiday season, after revealing more details on a newRead More →
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’sRead More →
