The privacy community scored a victory in a year-long battle over the future of encryption: In internal discussions, the White House quietly overruled law enforcement and intelligence officials, deciding thatRead More →
US Ports are still vulnerable to cyber attacks that release dangerous chemicals, cybersecurity in the maritime industry is crucial for Homeland security. Critical infrastructure across the world are vulnerable toRead More →
AndroidOS.SmsThief does what it says on the tin – acts as a thief through SMS, on Android. Mobile network security and threat detection company AdaptiveMobile says it has been trackingRead More →
Attackers could have fooled Kaspersky antivirus in blocking Windows Update or some of its own update servers A vulnerability that allowed abuse by attackers was discovered and quickly fixed inRead More →
Security vendor interrupts hacking campaign targeting Israeli security firms, government agencies, and hospitals.Security experts have identified and isolated a series of attacks that were targeting the Israeli public sector. InRead More →
Singaporean telco’s customer premises equipment is a gateway to security hell. Thousands of routers mandated for use by a major Singaporean telco and operated by ‘top enterprises” around the worldRead More →
The Chinese government has quietly arrested a handful of hackers at the urging of the U.S. government — an unprecedented step to defuse tensions with Washington at a time whenRead More →
Matt Graeber showed the method on performing WMI attacks and its effects, but he didn’t talk much about the details. Therefore, this paper mainly details about using powershell to implementRead More →
Researcher finds reflected XSS bug in Drupal 8.Drupal 8 isn’t even out yet but security experts have been hard at work auditing the code and reporting security bugs, helping theRead More →
HE CONVICTION OF former Reuters employee Matthew Keys on hacking charges this week has renewed focus on a controversial federal law that many say prosecutors are using incorrectly and tooRead More →
The director of one of Europe’s top aviation agencies warned on Thursday that hackers could infiltrate critical systems in an airplane on the ground. Patrick Ky director of the EuropeanRead More →
Today the Nobel Peace Prize 2015 will be announced. Will it be a controversial choice? The Nobel Committee will announce the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize today at 11am CET inRead More →
Hackers are hiding hundreds or thousands of username/password combinations in one single XML-RPC request. WordPress sites are being abused once again and there is no surprise since the platform is theRead More →
A vulnerability in Netgear routers, already disclosed by two sets of researchers at different security companies, has been publicly exploited. Netgear, meanwhile, has yet to release patched firmware, despite apparentlyRead More →
A Leeds-based hacker used a notorious piece of malware called BlackShades to spy on people via their webcams. Investigators from the National Crime Agency found images on the computer ofRead More →
Dozens of successful attacks detected that install malicious code on company portals. Attackers are infecting a widely used virtual private network product sold by Cisco Systems to install backdoors thatRead More →
Months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung’s new mobile payment system, LoopPay, a small Massachusetts subsidiary of the South Korean electronics giant, was the target of a sophisticatedRead More →
Researchers warn widely used algorithm should be retired sooner. SHA1, one of the Internet’s most crucial cryptographic algorithms, is so weak to a newly refined attack that it may beRead More →
Transactions were being duplicated in a malleability attack.A Russian man that calls himself “Alister Maclin” has been disrupting the Bitcoin network for over a week, creating duplicate transactions, and annoyingRead More →
The only thing that I really worry about when I drop my phone into a tub of water is if I’ve backed everything up. More specifically, did I back myRead More →
