Apple is traditionally mum on some details of its devices’ hardware, preferring to talk about how “B is X times faster than A” than raw numbers. It’s partly a smartRead More →
Answers on a postcard from Syria, please. GCHQ has declined to comment on a report in the Daily Telegraph this weekend, which claimed that UK cabinet ministers’ emails had beenRead More →
Networking process crashed by crafted packets. One of the world’s major suppliers of industrial networking kit, Japanese company Yokogawa, has alerted the world to a vulnerability in 21 of itsRead More →
Hackers linked to known North Korean attack points and methods exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Hangul Word Processor (HWP), widely deployed in the offices of the South Korean government.Read More →
Apple will release iOS 9 next week, and some iOS 8 users who rely on unofficial apps installed on their iPhones and iPads after jailbreaking them are worried about upgrading.Read More →
Since Edward Snowden exposed the extent of online surveillance by the US government, there has been a surge of initiatives to protect users’ privacy. But it hasn’t taken long for oneRead More →
Webmasters should regularly check the list of verified owners for their websites in the Google Search Console. Hackers who compromise websites are also increasingly verifying themselves as the owners ofRead More →
Researchers recently discovered a smattering of vulnerabilities in web applications and mobile applications belonging to companies like Yahoo, PayPal, Magento, and Shopify that could have led to account theft, session hijacking,Read More →
It didn’t take long for hackers to take advantage of the malware’s bolt-on structure and transform it into something dangerous. The modular CoreBot malware has risen in sophistication almost overnightRead More →
Windows 10 is here. Well… it’s sort of been here for some time, but it’s fully rolled out now and soon we will begin to see enterprise adoption. I, likeRead More →
Between 2010 and 2014, the US Department of Energy (DoE) was attacked by unknown parties 159 times, as USA Today is reporting based on edited documents obtained through the FreedomRead More →
That padlock on your bag? Easy to open by anyone now. The integrity of more than 300 million travel locks has been compromised after 3D printing files for a rangeRead More →
Miscreants infiltrated network in 2013 … discovered last month. Health insurance company Excellus said hackers broke into its servers and may have made off with the personal details of 10.5Read More →
Infected owners must choose between paying $500 and performing factory reset. Malicious apps that disable Android phones until owners pay a hefty ransom are growing increasingly malevolent and sophisticated asRead More →
Researchers have peeled back the layers on a new campaign that spans multiple years and involves a new variant of the ubiquitous Gh0st remote access tool (RAT). The campaign, now believed toRead More →
Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack. When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents belonging to the onlineRead More →
Joshua Drake, the researcher who found the so-called Stagefright vulnerability in Android, today released exploit code to the public, which he hopes will be used to test systems’ exposure toRead More →
A group of hackers that goes under the name of DD4BC, first spotted in September 2014, has recently intensified its activity, launching over 141 DDOS attacks in the past year.Read More →
Poorly secured satellite-based Internet links are being abused by nation-state hackers, most notably by the Turla APT group, to hide command-and-control operations, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today. Active forRead More →
The L8NT could help law enforcement track and find Wi-Fi enabled gadgets. On Tuesday, local media reported that David Schwindt, a 14-year veteran from Iowa City, has designed software whichRead More →
