A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employeeRead More →
A recently discovered zero-day bug may be at fault.Security researchers from both Sucuri and Malwarebytes have observed a recent massive malware distribution campaign that leverages Magento websites to redirect usersRead More →
Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policyRead More →
Facebook will now detect when state hackers are trying to hijack accounts, and alert users when it happens Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, has announced a new systemRead More →
The online hacktivist Anonymous conducted powerful DDoS attacks on the official websites of two of the Japan‘s busiest airports and forced them to stay down for about 8 hours. TheRead More →
Code reviewers looking over a mail daemon have turned up a couple of reasonably serious bugs in the Libre SSL code base – and along the way provided a handyRead More →
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at leastRead More →
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torchesRead More →
There’s a dark side to Android root providers, even when they’re fully disclosed. A handful of app distributors are putting hundreds of millions of Android users at risk by bundlingRead More →
A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade onRead More →
Developers have been quick to fix the problem. An important security issue on Ubuntu phone that has been revealed this morning has been fixed by the Canonical team. This is theRead More →
TeslaCrypt doesn’t mean anything to many PC users, but there are thousands of people who have somehow contracted this infectious malware program that imprisons personal files on a computer until aRead More →
UltraDNS, a web content delivery service, went down Thursday afternoon, taking with it a number of popular websites, including Netflix and Expedia. The cause of the 90-minute failure was anRead More →
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) was designed to help secure websites (those using HTTPS) by declaring to web browsers that they should communicate only via HTTPS with the server toRead More →
Developers at Automattic, the parent company behind the blogging platform WordPress, fixed a nasty stored cross-site scripting error this week in Akismet, an anti-spam plugin that figures into millions ofRead More →
A banking trojan, detected by ESET as Win32/Brolux.A, is targeting Japanese internet banking users and spreading through at least two vulnerabilities: a Flash vulnerability leaked in the Hacking Team hackRead More →
Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA’s $11 billion budget. For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic softwareRead More →
The impunity of drone operators may have run its course, as a science and technology firm has just unveiled means to reign in rogue UAVs (Unmanned Air Vehicles). This droneRead More →
You may be under the impression that the new EMV chip system for credit card payments is nice and secure. But the UK’s been using it since 2003 — soRead More →
Over the years, the McAfee Labs team has worked with IT security vendors, law enforcement and others to identify and evaluate numerous websites, chat rooms, and other online platforms, communities,Read More →
