It’s still not clear if Harold Martin was connected to the “Shadow Brokers” NSA dump. In a new Thursday court filing, federal prosecutors expanded their accusations against a former National SecurityRead More →
Malicious actors are abusing a free VoIP service for gamers to distribute remote access Trojans, as well as infostealers and downloaders. Discord, a free VoIP service designed for gaming communities,Read More →
Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually all versions of the LinuxRead More →
Bit.ly-based phishing links targeted former Sec. of State, Clinton campaign chair. The breach of personal e-mail accounts for Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta and former Secretary of State Colin Powell haveRead More →
Yesterday, GData malware analyst Karsten Hahn discovered an in-development ransomware disguised as a click me game. When executed the ransomware will launch a screen that contains a Click Me button that a userRead More →
Adult website Adult FriendFinder may have been compromised by a hacker who said he has gained access to the site’s backend servers and posted allegedly compromised data to his Twitter feed. TheRead More →
“Common sense” is an oft-prescribed remedy for email-based malware threats: Don’t click on unknown links, don’t enable macros in documents from unknown senders, don’t even read emails from unknown senders.Read More →
Information Security experts have discovered an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability in Joomla component ja-k2-filter-and-search. Information Security Researchers Dimitrios Roussis and Evangelos Apostoloudis have discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in componentRead More →
Russian man drove luxury car, then collapsed after being apprehended, police say. An alleged Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic following an FBI-coordinated tip-off is suspected of taking part in aRead More →
“Side channel” in Haswell CPUs lets researchers bypass protection known as ASLR. Researchers have devised a technique that bypasses a key security protection built into just about every operating system. IfRead More →
