STEAL YOUR WI-FI KEY FROM YOUR DOORBELL? IOT WTF!
2016-01-14
The Ring is a Wi-Fi doorbell that connects to your home Wi-Fi. It’s a really cool device that allows you to answer callers from your mobile phone, even when you’reRead More →
In Silk Road Appeal, Ross Ulbricht’s Defense Focuses on Corrupt Feds
2016-01-13
IT’S BEEN NEARLY a year since a jury determined that Ross Ulbricht had created and run the anonymous black market for drugs known as the Silk Road, a conviction thatRead More →
Black Hat SEO Campaign Leverages SQL Injections to Boost Search Rankings
2016-01-13
A new type of black hat SEO campaign has been uncovered in the last few months by Akamai’s experts, who have observed that an attacker is using SQL injection flawsRead More →
SSH Backdoor Identified in Fortinet Firewalls
2016-01-13
Fortinet’s FortiOS operating system, deployed on the company’s FortiGate firewall networking equipment includes an SSH backdoor on versions from the 4.x series up to and including 4.3.16, and the 5.xRead More →
Trochilus RAT Evades Antivirus Detection, Used for Cyber-Espionage in South-East Asia
2016-01-12
A new type of RAT (Remote Access Trojan) has been discovered in use against governments and civil society organizations in South-East Asia, the Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT)Read More →
Smartwatches Can Be Used to Spy on Your Card’s PIN Code
2016-01-12
Wearable devices can be used as motion-based keyloggers. French student and software engineer, Tony Beltramelli, has published his master thesis called Deep-Spying: Spying using Smartwatch and Deep Learning, in which heRead More →
Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations
2016-01-11
Researchers contradict Juniper claim that Dual_EC_DRBG weakness couldn’t be exploited. Juniper Networks, which last month made the startling announcement its NetScreen line of firewalls contained unauthorized code that can surreptitiouslyRead More →
Apple, Google, Microsoft attack government hacking plans
2016-01-09
Tech industry hits back at plans to create legal framework for hacking by spies, military and police. Tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook have criticized plans by theRead More →
ProPublica Launches the Dark Web’s First Major News Site
2016-01-08
THE SO-CALLED DARK web, for all its notoriety as a haven for criminals and drug dealers, is slowly starting to look more and more like a more privacy-preserving mirror ofRead More →
Authors digitally signed Spymel Trojan to evade detection
2016-01-08
Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that uses stolen certificates to evade detection. In late December, security experts at Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that usesRead More →
