Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has opened an account on the social network website Twitter. His opening tweet was: “Can you hear me now?” In his profile, Mr SnowdenRead More →
Pirate Bay is online and playing a game of cat and mouse with IP regulators. Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was released from a Swedish prison Saturday, three years afterRead More →
VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications and is a programming language developed by Microsoft to help programmers create Windows applications using an easy-to-understand coding syntax. According to a researchRead More →
A malicious advertising campaign has targeted top adult sites like Pornhub and YouPorn. Several of the world’s most popular pornographic websites were struck by cyberattacks in the past week, accordingRead More →
Technique allows full recovery of 2048-bit RSA key stored in Amazon’s EC2 service. Piercing a key selling point of commercial cloud computing services, computer scientists have devised a hack thatRead More →
A trojan strand targeting Android devices has been found coming pre-installed inside the firmware of some Android smartphones by Dr.Web, a Russian-based antivirus vendor. The trojan, detected as Android.Backdoor.114.origin, wasRead More →
Researchers have found that smartphone browsers can deliver a powerful flooding attack. Researchers suspect a mobile advertising network has been used to point hundreds of thousands of smartphone browsers atRead More →
The Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, short EMET, is an optional download for all supported client and server versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system that adds exploit mitigation to theRead More →
Yesterday’s update of the encryption software VeraCyrpt fixed two vulnerabilities that security researcher James Forshaw discovered in TrueCrypt’s source code. TrueCrypt, which has been abandoned by its developers, is stillRead More →
Tool to check malware in Twitter URLs to be tested during European Football Championships next summer. An intelligent system has been created by computer scientists to identify malicious links disguised inRead More →
Yesterday at the Maker Faire in New York, we had a chance to check out the Rephone, a clever little project that comprises a bunch of modules that let youRead More →
Largest Chat app for Smartphones is now at Risk whatsapp hack that allow user to steal conversation, Israeli security firm Check Point discovered a critical vulnerability of WhatsApp Web that mightRead More →
Simple e-mail exploit lets microconsole play dozens more games. When we gave our impressions of Sony’s Vita-based PlayStation TV microconsole last year, our biggest complaint was with the tiny unit’sRead More →
Compromised WordPress websites are delivering spyware and PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) to users via fake Flash update messages and fake browser plugins. Zscaler researchers have uncovered a covert spyware distributionRead More →
Yahoo’s developers have open-sourced Gryffin, a security scanner for Web content, specifically designed to cut down the number of false positives and also work at very large scales. Yahoo hasRead More →
In case didn’t know or need a reminder, browser cookies aren’t exactly impervious to attack. The DHS-sponsored CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University this week droppedRead More →
Once again, fully patched iPhone lock screens can be bypassed with a few keystrokes. iPhone users have yet another screenlock bypass vulnerability to watch out for, according to a newRead More →
Security firm Malwarebytes says a campaign of malware hidden inside online ads which hit search engine Yahoo earlier this year has now also appeared on adult websites. The advertising, apparentlyRead More →
Symantec’s researchers have discovered a new version of the Kovter trojan, which now mimics the Poweliks malware and is able to live on your computer’s registry, without needing to beRead More →
The GreenDispenser malware displays an error on the infected ATMs so that only criminals can use them. Security researchers have discovered a new malware program that infects automated teller machinesRead More →
