A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available onRead More →
Researchers have found a new strain of document-based macro malware that evades discovery by lying dormant when it detects a security researcher’s test environment. The malware, according to researcher CalebRead More →
Short Bytes: A recent study has suggested that people are inclined towards popping any random USB stick into their computers without a second thought. Interestingly, the Aussie hackers are exploitingRead More →
Following an investigation by Pen Test Partners, British Telecom (BT) has released a firmware upgrade for their popular range of Wi-Fi extenders. The investigation uncovered vulnerabilities within the firmware whenRead More →
Supposedly hacked data surfaced on underground website for sale in August. In August, a dealer in stolen data who goes by the online moniker “Peace”—the person or persons who previously soldRead More →
Malware is infesting a growing number of IoT devices, but their owners may be completely unaware of it. Malware targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age andRead More →
A Check Point report suggests organisations’ security hasn’t kept pace to meet a ninefold rise in malicious software. An exponential rise in malware means employees are at their highest-ever riskRead More →
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet addresses from a EuropeanRead More →
Hacking SQL servers is fun. Early this year, I blogged about hacking SQL servers without a password. I used Ettercap to perform a man-in-the-middle attack between a Microsoft SQL serverRead More →
Terbium Labs’ software can now be used to detect when data belonging to companies is being flogged in the underground. Terbium Labs has announced the release of Dark Web dataRead More →
