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 →
A ransomware infection has wreaked havoc at Romantik Seehotel Jägerwirt, a four-star hotel in the Austrian Alps, on the lip of the Turracher Höhe mountain lake. The incident took placeRead More →
Symantec is currently investigating reports of yet another new attack in the Middle East involving the destructive disk-wiping malware used by the Shamoon group (W32.Disttrack, W32.Disttrack.B). Similar to previous attacks,Read More →
Developers with WordPress fixed three security issues this week, including a cross-site scripting and a SQL injection vulnerability, with the latest version of the CMS. The update, 4.7.2, was pushedRead More →
First observed in July 2014, “Dridex,” a financial banking Trojan, is considered the successor to the “GameOver ZeuS” (GoZ) malware. • Dridex was most active between 2014 and 2015, andRead More →
