A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’sRead More →
The comeback was 16 years in the making, but macro malware is once again on security professionals’ radars in a big way impacting at least 100,000 people since it began its resurgenceRead More →
Trojan works by injecting fake logins into legitimate apps.A new Android banking trojan, named SlemBunk, has been uncovered by FireEye’s security team, one that targets users utilizing mobile banking appsRead More →
In an attack aping the work of the infamous Lizard Squad hacking group, the similarly titled Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft’s Xbox Live service.Read More →
We believe the payload belongs to a new iOS Trojan family that we’re calling “TinyV”. In December 2015, Chinese users reported they were infected by this malware. After further research,Read More →
Facebook doesn’t appreciate the effort, threatens to sue. Wesley Wineberg, an independent security researcher, participating in Facebook’s bug bounty program, managed to crack his way through Instagram defenses and almost getRead More →
IN AN AGE when hackers hire themselves out to organized crime schemes and sell secret intrusion techniques to spy agencies, Samy Kamkar takes a more fun-loving approach to dropping zero-dayRead More →
Fixed by Microsoft’s latest patches, bug could be “enterprise killer,” says researcher. One of a heaping collection of critical bug fixes pushed out by Microsoft on December 8 as partRead More →
Backdoor in NetScreen firewalls gives attackers admin access, VPN decrypt ability. An operating system used to manage firewalls sold by Juniper Networks contains unauthorized code that surreptitiously decrypts traffic sentRead More →
Grub Vulnerability : You can Hack into a Linux PC/laptop just by pressing ‘Backspace’ 28 times Most of us swear by Linux as a super secure operating system but twoRead More →
