Leaving Laptops in Hotel Rooms: A Bad Idea
2015-11-02
A laptop filled with data? An external HDD filled with even more data? There’s bound to be a phone – possibly two if you spend a lot of time inRead More →
Vodafone Hacked, Customers’ Personal Data, Banking Information Stolen
2015-11-02
In the wake of the TalkTalk Scandal, Vodafone finally admitted that hackers did manage to steal around 20,000 Vodafone customers’ bank details. According to the Mobile Phone provider firm, hackersRead More →
Home Network Analysis: DVRs and my Network Interact
2015-11-02
My last on-topic post pontificated about the dangers and surprise of letting third parties into your house or codebase, where I discussed the addition of a TV DVR system to myRead More →
European Parliament offers support to Edward Snowden
2015-10-31
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a resolution that calls on all EU member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequentlyRead More →
Report: CryptoWall Creators Earned $325 Million in Bitcoin Ransoms
2015-10-31
A cyber-security industry group has published new research on the CryptoWall ransomware campaign, finding that the attacks have generated more than $300m in ransom income and stem from a singleRead More →
Google merging Chrome OS and Android? Not so fast
2015-10-31
The two platforms drive different devices. But would combining them really be a bad thing? On Thursday, the The Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that Google is inRead More →
Tor launches anti-censorship Messenger service
2015-10-31
A new chat tool has been launched in an effort to improve the security of online messaging. Tor Messenger allows users to chat over the Tor (The Onion Router) networkRead More →
IETF recognizes .onion as special-use domain name
2015-10-31
Calling the formal recognition of the .onion as a Special-use Domain Name by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) “a small and important landmark in the movement to build privacyRead More →
How to Build a Portable Hacking Station with a Raspberry Pi and Kali Linux
2015-10-30
Cracking Wi-Fi passwords, spoofing accounts, and testing networks for exploits is all fun enough, but if you want to take the show on the road, you’ll want an easilyRead More →
European Police Agencies declare war on DroidJack RAT
2015-10-30
Authorities in several European countries announced they have coordinated an operation to arrest criminals using the popular DroidJack RAT. Android RATs are becoming very popular in the criminal underground, a recentRead More →
Thousands stolen identities of Britons available on the Darkweb
2015-10-30
600k customer identities have been stolen in 2014 and according to government officials thousands of Britons data available for sale in the DarkWeb. The digital identities of tens of thousandsRead More →
Chikdos cross-platform DDoS botnet hit SQL servers worldwide
2015-10-30
Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware in the wild that abuses MySQL Servers forRead More →
Police raid homes across Europe over DroidJack malware
2015-10-30
Thirteen homes in Germany were raided as part of the operation – Image by Thinkstock Police have raided homes in five European countries as part of a malware investigation, according toRead More →
Webhosting company loses 13 million plaintext passwords, says “thanks for your understanding”
2015-10-30
There’s another data breach to report – and it’s a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the “free” web hosting company 000Webhost. The breached data, which includes customerRead More →
Multi-stage exploit installing trojan
2015-10-29
ESET researchers receive and analyze thousands of new malware samples every day. Earlier this year, one of them caught our attention because it was not an ordinary executable file, butRead More →
Google HTTP Search, yes, it is still possible
2015-10-29
Google began to implement SSL on its search engine back in 2010. First on its own domain name, then as a mandatory feature for logged in Google users, andRead More →
When sharing Google links, make sure you check the url for leaks first
2015-10-29
Have you ever shared links to Google Search results before? If you have, you may have noticed that the url pointing to the search results page contains several other parametersRead More →
Fewer IPsec VPN Connections at Risk from Weak Diffie-Hellman
2015-10-29
A challenge has been made against one of the conclusions in a potentially blockbuster academic paper on cryptographic weaknesses that may be the open door through which intelligence agencies areRead More →
Jaguar car hack in New Zealand
2015-10-29
A Jaguar XFR may have been stolen using hacking techniques increasingly seen on keyless cars. This unidentified thief did not have the key, which was locked safely away inside theRead More →
US Army Experts Call for military bug bounty program AVRP
2015-10-28
US Army Military experts urge the establishment of an Army Vulnerability Response Program (AVRP), a sort of military bug bounty program. What happen when bug hunters have to work with high sensitiveRead More →
