“Hi, I’m from IT” call yielded access to customer records, lulz; Cox fined $596k. What’s the cost of giving up customers’ information because of weak information security practices? For CoxRead More →
Rafael Salema Marques is a Brazilian cyber-security researcher and, above all, a devoted Mac user. Today, Mr. Marques published a LinkedIn blog post and proof-of-concept video on YouTube, detailing aRead More →
We’re your servants, says general counsel unconvincingly After spending months pressuring tech companies to add backdoors into their encryption software, the FBI says it has given up on the idea.Read More →
Fake jQuery injections have been popular among hackers since jQuery itself went mainstream and became one of the most widely adopted JavaScript libraries. Every now and then we write aboutRead More →
Follow-on attacks show capabilities “commonly possessed by state-sponsored actors.” A provider of end-to-end encrypted e-mail said it paid a ransom of almost $6,000 to stop highly advanced denial-of-service attacks thatRead More →
Cyber-security vendors are revealing their statistics for the third quarter (Q3) of 2015, and a popular topic is DDoS attacks, a tactic widely used to mask more serious intrusions, toRead More →
IPB The encryption bothering parts of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill have left IT security experts flabbergasted. Introducing the draft internet surveillance law in the House of Commons on Wednesday,Read More →
A cybersecurity expert once told me something I’ll never forget: “don’t underestimate what bored teenagers can do.” A group teenagers that call themselves “Crackas With Attitude” reminded me of thoseRead More →
Customers of Russia’s biggest banks are under attack.Dell SecureWorks has detected an ongoing campaign that is targeting users of several Russian banks and payment service providers. The cyber-criminals behind thisRead More →
20,000 samples found impersonating apps from Twitter, Facebook, and others. Researchers have uncovered a new type of Android adware that’s virtually impossible to uninstall, exposes phones to potentially dangerous rootRead More →
