The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was hit with a ransomware attack on Friday, causing fare station terminals to carry the message, “You Hacked. ALL Data Encrypted.” Turns out, theRead More →
Short Bytes: The Tor Project has released Tor Phone–a privacy-focused and secure version of Android mobile OS. It’s based on Copperhead OS, a hardened Android distribution. Tor Phone also usesRead More →
Our researchers have demonstrated that because of lack of security in the Tesla smartphone app, cyber criminals could take control of the company’s vehicles, to the point where they canRead More →
An ongoing spam campaign is using boobytrapped image files to download and infect users with the Locky ransomware, Israeli security firm Check Point reports. aMalware authors are spreading malicious imageRead More →
Admittedly, that’s somewhat of a click-bait blog post title but bear with us, it’s for a good reason. Lots of work goes on behind the scenes of Kali Linux: toolsRead More →
Will Dormann, a Vulnerability Analyst for the US-CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), is advising Microsoft to continue developing EMET because Windows 10 does not provide the same protection measures, in spiteRead More →
This article will focus on teaching analysts on analysing malicious JavaScript code within the HWP files and a walkthrough of how we can analyse .HWP files that was used toRead More →
Stampado is one of the many new ransomware strains we have seen in 2016. Stampado was first seen in the wild in July 2016, as one of the cheapest piecesRead More →
Scriptless exploit bypasses state-of-the-art protections baked into the OS. Recently released exploit code makes people running fully patched versions of Fedora and other Linux distributions vulnerable to drive-by attacks thatRead More →
Israeli hacker Amihai Neiderman needed three days to hack into Tel Aviv’s free public Wi-Fi. He only worked during the evenings, after he came home from his full-time job asRead More →
