Apple has piled on the patches already released by Adobe and Microsoft today, and pushed out updates for iOS, OS X, Apple TV, Safari, and it’s watch-based operating system watchOSRead More →
The internet’s root servers came under a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week that effectively knocked three of the 13 critical pillars of the internet offline forRead More →
Social engineering is a pretty important item in a hacker’s toolkit.in Mr robot there was a time, we see Elliot, using social engineering to gain access to his therapist’s boyfriend’sRead More →
On September 11, 2015 I visited Media Markt in Utrecht Hoog Catherijne, a well-known electronics shop in The Netherlands. Since summer 2014, the biggest independent Dutch phone retail company Phone House also operates (whiteRead More →
The flaws can be exploited remotely through emails, Web pages, MMS and rogue apps. Google has released a new batch of security fixes for its Nexus smartphones and tablets, addressing flawsRead More →
Today at JSConf US Last Call in Florida, we announced that we will open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore, which will include all the key components of theRead More →
BackStab technique helps criminals get their hands on your private data, via unprotected phone backups A recent report from Palo Alto Networks describes an attack technique called BackStab where malwareRead More →
Bootkit targeting banks and payment card processors hard to detect and remove. Malware targeting banks, payment card processors, and other financial services has found an effective way to remain largelyRead More →
Initial issues trickle down to other Java toolkits.Exactly a month ago, we were reporting on an issue that exposed many Java applications to security holes thanks to how developers handledRead More →
Proposed French Law Would Ban TOR In Response to Paris Terror Attacks France is looking to tighten its censorship laws after the gruesome Paris terror attacks. According to French newspaperRead More →
A look inside your typical malware campaign.In an optimal scenario, when you get infected with malware, you think it’s only one virus. Unfortunately, in the real world it’s not so,Read More →
Trend Micro reports that 6.1 million devices are affected.A 3-year-old bug in the Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, also called libupnp, is present in millions of modern-day smart TVs, InternetRead More →
Why create your own rooting functions when someone else has already put the effort into doing the same thing Security researchers have detected a new trojan targeting Android devices, butRead More →
More and more, the world is turning to and adopting the smartphone platform as the digital device of choice. People are not only using smartphones for voice communication, but alsoRead More →
A new analysis of the Sofacy APT gang, a Russian-speaking group carrying out targeted attacks against military and government offices for close to a decade, shows a relentless wave ofRead More →
A lot of people think that TOR services are unhackable because they are on a “secure environment”, but the truth is that those services are exactly the same that runRead More →
Smartphones are almost always connected to the internet, so it stands to reason that they can be hacked remotely. Or perhaps a jealous boyfriend or girlfriend got hold of yourRead More →
MORE THAN TWO years after Ross Ulbricht was arrested in a San Francisco and accused of creating and running the Dark Web drug bazaar known as the Silk Road, aRead More →
The poorly thought-out and crude surveillance technique could have a devastating effect on the country’s internet security. In less than a month, Kazakhstan will begin enforcing a new law thatRead More →
Surreptitious attacks often prey on people visiting legitimate sites. A new wave of crypto ransomware is hitting Windows users courtesy of poorly secured websites. Those sites are infected with Angler,Read More →
