Religious beliefs, political leanings, and medical conditions are up for grabs. OAKLAND, Calif.—In the beginning, people hacked phones. In the decades to follow, hackers turned to computers, smartphones, Internet-connected securityRead More →
Thousands of internet-connected printers could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, as well as passwords that could allow further compromise of a network. New research published by academics hasRead More →
An iPhone serial number hack could explain why Apple killed its iCloud Activation Lock checker. Apple’s decision to remove its Activation Lock status checker from iCloud may have been becauseRead More →
Today, at the USENIX Enigma conference, Facebook engineers announced a new mechanism for recovering access to lost online accounts, which relies on the cooperation between different online services. Called DelegatedRead More →
In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling withRead More →
Programming blunders allow miscreants to snatch home gateways’ admin passwords. Researchers are warning of a serious security hole that can be exploited to hijack potentially hundreds of thousands of NetgearRead More →
I have previously recommended a course entitled Software Exploits by Open Security Training, and similarly, a book “called The Shellcoder’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes”. Using some of the examples presented in theRead More →
Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the policeRead More →
SVG has all the makings of a great malware distribution medium, and crooks are bound to migrate to this new file format, now that Google has moved to ban .jsRead More →
A security expert discovered a flaw in a ransomware protection service that opened Uber service, and many others, to cyber attacks. The Russian penetration tester Vladimir Ivanov from the securityRead More →
