Self-Driving Cars Are Hackable
2015-09-07
Jonathan Petit, security researcher at Security Innovation, Inc., has revealed he can easily fool the LiDAR sensors on any self-driving car to slow down or abruptly stop by sending itRead More →
Zero-day vulnerabilities reportedly found in Kaspersky and FireEye security products
2015-09-07
Sounds like it’s going to be a busy few days for R&D and PR departments at least two security companies. This weekend, vulnerability researchers have separately disclosed flaws in productsRead More →
Coder pleads guilty to writing Gozi banking trojan
2015-09-07
A man credited with helping to create the infamous Gozi banking malware has pled guilty in a US court. Deniss Calovskis, 30, of Latvia was arrested November 2012 and spentRead More →
Outdated WordPress Sites Used to Deliver Teslacrypt Ransomware
2015-09-07
Heimdal Security researchers have observed a new ransomware campaign that utilizes the Neutrino exploit kit to deliver Teslacrypt ransomware to victims via websites running older version of the WordPress CMS.Read More →
‘UNSW is drunk’: Facebook page gets hacked on university’s Open Day
2015-09-05
UNSW staff had to scramble to contain an embarrassing outbreak of undergraduate humour, after the university’s Facebook page was hacked on its annual open day. As the university prepared to showcaseRead More →
Chrome becomes a bit less of a memory hog with version 45
2015-09-05
Some new Flash refinements will make it use less battery power, too. While the Chrome browser is extremely popular, it has gained something of a reputation. What hippos are toRead More →
Attackers bundle an old version of TeamViewer to exploit vulnerability
2015-09-05
We’re used to seeing malware that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities in software. But in a new twist attackers are bundling an old version of remote access package TeamViewer with their malwareRead More →
Detecting an asymmetric Curve25519 backdoor in RSA key generation algorithms
2015-09-05
While working on some forthcoming research on cryptographic backdoors i came across an interesting asymmetric backdoor designed to subvert RSA key generation algorithms by Ryan Castellucci. The backdoor is particularlyRead More →
Attacker Compromised Mozilla Bug System, Stole Private Vulnerability Data
2015-09-05
Security experts constantly tell users not to reuse passwords on multiple accounts, but the message often falls on deaf ears. Now, officials at Mozilla are finding that advanced users don’t alwaysRead More →
24 Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware
2015-09-04
G DATA security experts published their latest research in which they’ve analyzed top Chinese Android smartphone models and found that a large number of them ship with pre-installed malware andRead More →
