Trillions of Facebook posts added to search results
2015-10-24
Facebook has indexed almost two trillion posts put on the site by its members to make it easier to find them. The change means that many older posts will now beRead More →
A Russian Cyber Spy Group Might Have Tried to Hack the MH17 Investigation
2015-10-24
A cyber attack and spy group believed to have ties with the Russian government reportedly attempted to hack the Dutch agency tasked with investigating the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster,Read More →
Joomla Update Patches Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability
2015-10-24
Joomla on Thursday released a new version of its content management system, 3,4,5, that addresses a critical SQL injection vulnerability that could have let attackers gain access to data in theRead More →
Privacy Advocates Launch Anonymous Calling App
2015-10-24
For those who seek privacy while working online, you now have a solution in “Warble,” an Anonymous calling app for Android, iOS and Windows OS. Warble is an app developedRead More →
Data of 4 million TalkTalk customers likely stolen in wake of website attack
2015-10-24
TalkTalk, one of UK’s biggest telecoms, has suffered a “significant and sustained cyberattack” on their website, and it’s possible that personal and financial information of some 4 million of theRead More →
Sony pays up to $8m over employees’ hacked data
2015-10-23
Sony has agreed to pay up to $8m over employees’ personal data lost in the 2014 hacking scandal surrounding the release of The Interview. Hackers had broken into the company’sRead More →
Novel NTP Attacks Roll Back Time
2015-10-23
Sharon Goldberg remembers the cold February day when her Boston University PhD candidate Aanchal Malhotra was studying routing security, in particular, attacks against the resource public key infrastructure (RPKI)—and keptRead More →
Apple pushes out critical security updates for OS X, iOS, watchOS, and other products
2015-10-23
Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, iOS, iTunes, Xcode, andRead More →
Fitbit trackers can easily be infected with malware, and spread it on
2015-10-23
Security researcher Axelle Apvrille has managed to deliver malware to a FitBit Flex fitness tracker, and to spread the infection to any computer that the device is subsequently connected to.Read More →
Linux Kernel 4.2.4 Is Now Available for Download, Has Hundreds of Changes
2015-10-23
All users of the Linux 4.2 kernel must upgrade It looks like it’s still October 22 in some countries, so Greg Kroah-Hartman announced just a few minutes ago the immediateRead More →
New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos
2015-10-22
Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages. Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encryptedRead More →
How to root Xiaomi smartphones effectively
2015-10-22
My new Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone arrived yesterday after an interlude with a German customs agent and several days of delay. I first thought that I had to fight myRead More →
Oracle Quarterly Security Update Patches 154 Vulnerabilities
2015-10-22
Oracle on Tuesday patched 154 vulnerabilities in 54 different products as part of its regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update. More than half of the patches, 84 to be exact, addressRead More →
Apple Claims New iPhones are “impossible” to Hack
2015-10-22
The CIA and the FBI are always looking for backdoors in Apple devices, in fact, the agency spent years trying to hack iPhone and iPads according to documents released by NSA’s EdwardRead More →
Apple fixes 49 security bugs in iOS 9.1; kills jailbreak
2015-10-22
Jailbreak team PanguTeam was credited with finding two security flaws. Apple has fixed 49 separate security vulnerabilities in iOS 9.1. The company, which released the software on Wednesday for iPhonesRead More →
WikiLeaks Is Publishing the CIA Director’s Hacked Emails
2015-10-22
WIKILEAKS MAY DESCRIBE itself as an outlet for whistleblowers, but it’s never hesitated to publish stolen documents offered up by a helpful hacker, either. So it’s no surprise that it’sRead More →
With goal of universal HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt reaches important milestone
2015-10-21
Free service backed by EFF is now trusted by all major browsers. A nonprofit effort aimed at encrypting the entire Web has reached an important milestone: its HTTPS certificates areRead More →
Multi-stage exploit installing trojan
2015-10-21
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 →
’10-second’ hack jogs Fitbits into malware-spreading mode
2015-10-21
To avoid viral stains, go jogging alone or with Bluetooth binned. A vulnerability in FitBit fitness trackers first reported to the vendor in March could still be exploited by theRead More →
Support scams that plagued Windows users for years now target Mac customers
2015-10-21
Swindlers impersonate Apple service that remotely accesses user desktops. For years, scammers claiming that they’re “calling from Windows” have dialed up Microsoft customers and done their best to trick themRead More →
