X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
2015-10-20
THE CHIP-ENABLED CREDIT card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a doubleRead More →
Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It
2015-10-20
A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employeeRead More →
Magento Websites Exploited in Massive Malware Distribution Campaign
2015-10-19
A recently discovered zero-day bug may be at fault.Security researchers from both Sucuri and Malwarebytes have observed a recent massive malware distribution campaign that leverages Magento websites to redirect usersRead More →
Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users’ personal info
2015-10-19
Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policyRead More →
Facebook Will Warn Users When State-Sponsored Groups Are Trying to Hack Their Accounts
2015-10-19
Facebook will now detect when state hackers are trying to hijack accounts, and alert users when it happens Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, has announced a new systemRead More →
Anonymous Shut Down Japanese Airport websites against Dolphin Slaughter
2015-10-19
The online hacktivist Anonymous conducted powerful DDoS attacks on the official websites of two of the Japan‘s busiest airports and forced them to stay down for about 8 hours. TheRead More →
SMTP bug-hunt turns up vuln in LibreSSL
2015-10-19
Code reviewers looking over a mail daemon have turned up a couple of reasonably serious bugs in the Libre SSL code base – and along the way provided a handyRead More →
FinFisher Spyware Becomes More Popular Among Government Agencies
2015-10-19
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at leastRead More →
Yahoo only the latest at “kill the password” altar
2015-10-17
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torchesRead More →
How a few legitimate app developers threaten the entire Android userbase
2015-10-17
There’s a dark side to Android root providers, even when they’re fully disclosed. A handful of app distributors are putting hundreds of millions of Android users at risk by bundlingRead More →
