When researcher Joshua Drake published details in August about critical Android vulnerabilities in the Stagefright media playback engine, he promised there would be more issues that he and others wouldRead More →
the security research community has proven like never before that cars are vulnerable to hackers—via cellular Internet connections, intercepted smartphone signals, and even insurance dongles plugged into dashboards. Now anRead More →
Hackers with links to Russia tried to infiltrate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home e-mail server at least five times — even as other e-mails show her making cavalier jokes about ChineseRead More →
Dark-web deadbeats may not be as anonymous as they think. A bloke in the US was charged on Friday after FBI spyware caught him downloading child sex abuse material. LuisRead More →
Cyber-crime syndicate tried to intimidate antivirus vendor. In some cases, cyber-security work can turn really dangerous, and even deadly, if you manage to disrupt the revenue stream of international crime syndicates.Read More →
Gatekeeper is Mac OS X’s guardian against rogue applications and malware sneaking into Apple’s famous walled garden. It’s also been a favorite target of researchers and advanced attackers desperate toRead More →
Vulnerability allowed hackers to hijack active user sessions.Microsoft Exchange Server has been recently patched to fix an important security vulnerability which would have allowed attackers to gain access to activeRead More →
Threat actors are using a previously discovered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tool dubbed XOR DDoS to launch upwards of 20 DoS attacks a day against targets in Asia and otherRead More →
SAP patched a dozen holes in its in-memory management system, HANA, that could have led to SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS) errors, and memory corruption vulnerabilities. Many of theRead More →
WinRAR, the popular file compression and decompression utility, has a security vulnerability that allows attackers to remotely execute code on the user’s computer when opening an SFX (Self-extracting archive) file.Read More →
