An inspired writer, focused on user privacy and malicious software. Enjoys 'Mr. Robot' and fears '1984'.
Australian government proposed a new cybersecurity law that forces web services such as Google and Facebook to lower their encryption systems. According to the motion the companies are required to provide access to law enforcement agencies. Related Story: Australia’s Facial…
Kali Linux is one of the most famous and widely used Linux distributions for security testing, digital forensics and penetration testing. It has grown in popularity so fast that it is now perceived as an essential part of every security…
The Kaspersky Labs security products are now banned for use by the US government agencies according to several reports. The concerns are linked to potential links between the company and the Russian Federation intelligence services. The General Service Administration (GSA)…
BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon are the names of the latest CIA hacking tools unearthed by WikiLeaks and the already legendary Vault7 dump. The tools are in fact implants designed to steal SSH credentials from two operating systems – Windows and Linux.…
AlphaBay market, one of the largest Dark Web markets for illegal inventory like drugs and guns has been down since Tuesday night. The site is often down due to maintenance reasons but this time around things may be different s…
Due to its global dominance on the market, Windows has always been the most targeted operating system out there. However, Microsoft has been struggling to secure its product which has led to a (not that) surprising outcome. It turns out…
Are you a Dell customer? Be alert as Talos researchers have discovered that Dell’s pre-installed software contains vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to disable security programs. The flaws could also lead to escalation of privilege attacks. Related Story: Dell Tech…
Bithumb, the fourth largest Bitcoin and the biggest Ethereum exchange has been just hacked. The unfortunate event has resulted in the loss of over $1 million in cryptocurrencies. As for the hacking itself, it has been done via compromised user…
Are you a Linux user? Make sure to check whether a bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched. Researchers David Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal and Yuval Yarom from various respected…
Just a couple of days ago, Microsoft announced the comeback of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET for short). Also, new vulnerability mitigations are being introduced to Windows in a new feature dubbed Windows Defender Exploit Guard. In short, the…
OutlawCountry is the name of the latest CIA exploit revealed by the WikiLeaks. Unlike ELSA which was designed to target Windows systems to determine the location of a particular user, OutlawCountry targets Linux systems. According to a leaked user manual,…
What were the reasons behind the latest Petya/ NotPetya/ GoldenEye ransomware outbreak? Considering the circumstances surrounding this week’s malware catastrophe, security researchers have been struggling to understand why the campaign happened in the first place. Who was behind it? The…
How do you feel about a decade-old vulnerability in a range of Unix-based operating systems, like Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSF, FreeBSD and Solaris? Unfortunately, this question is not a theoretical one as such a vulnerability (identified as CVE-2017-1000364) has been discovered,…
CVE-2017-9948 is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability recently discovered in Microsoft Skype 7.2, 7.35, and 7.36 before 7.37. The Skype flaw involves MSFTEDIT.DLL mishandling of remote RDP clipboard content within the message box, as explained by researchers. The highly severe…
SamSam ransomware has been around since at least March 2016, but research indicates that it is active once again. This time around, the criminals behind the ransomware are demanding a huge amount of ransom, AlientVault researchers say. Related Story: SamSam…
