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Critical vulnerabilities are often leveraged in attack scenarios, varying from denial-of-service to malware infiltration cases. A serious vulnerability was recently patched, the kind that would allow attackers to carry out denial-of-service attacks via the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) exploits.…
How much does the security industry make? According to the New IDC Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide, the global revenue for security technology is expected to surpass $100 Billion in 2020. IDC forecasts that the revenue for security technologies (hardware,…
Just a few days ago a new systemd vulnerability was discovered in Linux by Andrew Ayer, Linux administrator and founder of SSLMate certificate company. As reported, the bug has the potential to kill a number of critical commands, in the…
Four previously unknown vulnerabilities were found in the Dell SonicWALL Email Security virtual appliance app by researchers at Digital Defense Inc. The researchers detected the flaws while developing new audit modules for its patented vulnerability scanning technology. The flaws should…
A new banking Trojan has been spotted targeting financial institutions on a global level. Dubbed Ordinaff, the banker is deployed in campaigns on networks of compromised organizations. Security researchers report that the Trojan has been active since January 2016, and…
AI is evolving every day, and every day we wake up to the next innovation which should ease our lives. Take Melody, the chatbot powered by artificial intelligence that resides within the Baidu Doctor app for both Android and iOS.…
Being a cyber security blog, we are used to mentioning MITRE mainly when it comes to disclosure of vulnerabilities (CVEs). However, the not-for-profit company “operates multiple federally funded research and development centers” and has now launched a competition with the…
Stealing from Dark Web users may seem ridiculous but it’s a crime that can get you charges! This is what happened to Michael Richo, a 30-something-year-old man from Connecticut who was caught stealing Bitcoin via fake login pages from users…
Scams over the phone continue to be quite profitable, as evident by three call centers in Thane district of Mumbai which brought a profit of over $75 million to the scammers. The call centers are already shut down by the…
Facebook is often targeted by spammers and scammers, scenarios which often lead to malware infiltration. Unfortunately, some of these campaigns may turn out to be more persistent than expected. Such a Facebook spam campaign, recently detected in France has caused…
Security researcher Stacey Jury at IntaForesincs has shared some concerns in terms of iOS 10’s privacy, in particular Apple Safari’s private browsing mode. Apparently, Apple has changed some things in the private mode in Safari and it is now less…
If you are a Spotify Free user, perhaps you should be more careful since users have spotted malicious behavior, SCMagazine reports. According to several users of the free version of the service, ads are serving malware through the advertiser network.…
According to a new report by Applied Risk conducted by security researcher Alexandru Ariciu, “multiple vulnerabilities were found in MOXA E1242 Ethernet remote I/O series used in factory automation.” The vulnerabilities can trigger code injection in the web application, and…
According to a research carried out by Symantec, Turkey has taken the leading position in terms of highest botnet population in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), with Istanbul and Ankara having the highest and second highest botnet controlled…
Password and credential security and respectively theft is a dangerous element of an infection chain. Luckily, security researchers at the University of Washington may have found a solution to prevent malicious hackers from intercepting passwords and keys, a rather unusual…
Apple and Microsoft have been competitors ever since their inception. Nonetheless, it’s not unseen for companies to adopt similar politics for one reason or another. According to Apple commentator Jim Dalrymple, Apple is about to engulf a behavior that is…
A decade or two ago, augmented reality (AR) may have been something more abstract than real but not anymore. Standing on the thin line between virtual reality and our own world, augmented reality is here to reshape our thinking. AR…
You can buy or sell pretty much anything on the Darknet, Office 365 accounts inclusive. Security firm SenseCy recently came across a new advert promoting a new hidden service – Open Hacking Lab (OHL). Among the hacking arsenal usually offered…
It’s a secret to no one (in the infosec world) that the exploit kit market has been rearranged to meet the current needs of malware distributors. Just several weeks ago, there was a notable malvertising incident on the popular website…
There’s a serious uptake in DDoS attacks, and as in many cyber threats, a DDoS can be carried out for political reasons. The Newsweek website just reported a heavy DDoS, and its timing is definitely not a coincidence. The website…
