Lost info includes names, addresses, numbers and security codes. Acer’s insecure customer database spilled people’s personal information – including full payment card numbers – into hackers’ hands for more than aRead More →
Selfrando is an alternative to ASLR memory randomization. At the start of June, the Tor Project released version 6.5a1 of the Tor Browser, but compared to previous releases, this one alsoRead More →
DAO had just raised $150 million in record crowdfunding effort. A futuristic technology experiment appears to have fallen prey to a common technological risk, as operators of a new investment fundRead More →
Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos thanRead More →
The Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde says ‘Bullying is the new Black’ after being fined $395,000 in damages to media companies The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has been orderedRead More →
How do companies regardless of size and industry prepare for ransomware attacks? A recent study revealed that businesses are considering saving up Bitcoins, just in case they get hit by theseRead More →
A new EDA2 ransomware was discovered by Michael Gillespie called Ded Cryptor. This ransomware has been around for quite a while and targets both Russian and English speaking victims. When installed, the victimsRead More →
Python’s built-in URL library (“urllib2” in 2.x and “urllib” in 3.x) is vulnerable to protocol stream injection attacks (a.k.a. “smuggling” attacks) via the http scheme. If an attacker could convinceRead More →
Users of the TeamViewer remote-access service have beencomplaining in recent weeks about how their systems have been hacked into, unauthorized purchases made on their cards, their bank accounts emptied. Initially itRead More →
Intel x86 CPUs Come with a Secret Backdoor That Nobody Can Touch or Disable. Hardware security expert Damien Zammit says that recent Intel x86 CPUs come with a secret subsystemRead More →
