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 →
Repository’s own account data not breached, affected passwords reset. On June 14, someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach ofRead More →
Sysadmins should disable OLE object execution. Malware coders have found a macro-like infection method that abuses the Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) system to trick users into running malicious scripts.Read More →
