A new research conducted by Digital Shadows reveals that 76 vulnerabilities are being exploited in exploit kit attacks. 27 of them are found in Flash. Despite the popularity of Flash flaws, an IE bug prevails in most attack scenarios and…
It is a fact that even the bravest people on earth think about their mother when they feel confused or scared. It is also a fact that no one is eternal, and we will all die one day. But the…
Security researchers Aamir Lakhani and Joseph Muniz have demonstrated how easy it is to prepare a hack attack at a given company. The researchers have illustrated the main issues when it comes to larger companies and their security. They report…
Source: Sergei Skorobogatov’s report A researcher, named Sergei Skorobogatov at Cambridge University has come up with a solution on how to bypass a protection layer for the very same model iPhones like the one FBI was trying to hack. The…
The intelligence committee of the white house claims that Edward Snowden, the person who revealed that NSA is conducting massive surveillance on citizens, is a criminal, and he should not receive any pardon. They have accused the National Security Agency…
A suspicious app, named Guide for Pokemon Go, pretending to be a guide with professional tips for players of the widely used Pokemon Go app has been detected to install ad-supported applications and even root the devices it affects. The…
A rule has been presented in the U.S. Senate, which is focused on stopping cyber-crime, called “Stopping Mass Hacking Act” was proposed for voting recently. The proposal was not vast and had only several paragraphs but it’s primary focus was…
Several reports by big companies such as Huawei and Cisco have been released where new solutions for interconnected and smart cities are suggested. In general, this is a bright idea because many of the problems in the cities will be…
A device has appeared on YouTube, dubbed USB Kill 2.0. The little flash-drive look alike device is not like your average flash drive. In fact, according to it’s creators at www.usbkill.com it has nothing to do with a flash drive.…
Tim Cook has announced the release of the new iPhone 7. The phone looks great with amazing features and new technology packed into it. Since Apple has not listed many privacy and security features, many are curious as to will…
Google, being the tech giant it is, has decided to significantly boost the security of it’s notebooks running Chrome OS. Amongst the new features, there will soon be a fingerprint scanned and a PIN code used to unlock the device.…
A collaborative operation of Europol, Italian forces and Romanian police has resulted in the successful arrests of 7 men in Italy and Romania. In addition to this, there were also 14 suspects that were detained in the arrests. The forces…
It shouldn’t come to no one’s surprise that no place on the Web is safe – forums of porn sites the least. Still, however, such occurrence shouldn’t become the hackneyed scenario to which everyone has gotten used to. Amidst terrorism…
It’s already been 13 years since the powerful Blaster worm has hit the world. This may have yet been the first malware that attacked computers that were connected to important machines and institutions. Back then, many Windows XP systems were…
Have you been impatiently looking forward to Mr. Robot’s second season? Do you always have questions about the hacks that take place during the show? Are you often pausing to have a closer look at what’s written on that PC…
A man from El Portal, Florida was arrested for gaining unauthorized access to the kernel.org (Linux Kernel) servers. According to the court, the hacker Ryan Austin used credentials to the servers of what appears to be an employee associated with…
Many services we use on a daily basis turn out to be quite buggy. This time our attention was caught by a vulnerability in the Yandex Browser, built on Chromium, which could have allowed attackers to steal users’ browsing history,…
MirrorLink by Connected Car Consortium is the first industry standard for connecting smartphones to in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI). A recent comprehensive research, titled ‘A Security Analysis of an In Vehicle Infotainment and App Platform’ and carried out by Damon McCoy,…
Have you ever clicked on a random link in your inbox or in a Facebook message? Despite knowing the risks? Well, you are not alone! A study by researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, discovered that people still…
Troy Hunt, owner of HaveIBeenPwned, just reported that 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from a Minecraft fan website (minecraftworldmap(.)com). The dumps include email addresses, IP addresses, usernames and passwords associated with that site. The leaked passwords…
