A ransomware infection that took root on late Tuesday night, January 31, affected several services provided by the local Licking County (Ohio) government infrastructure. The Linking County Commissioner’s Office acknowledgedRead More →
Twitter is now the target of a phishing attack that uses methods to trick brand managers and social influencers into fake account verification. Security firm Proofpoint discovered the phishing attack,Read More →
Thousands of internet-connected printers could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, as well as passwords that could allow further compromise of a network. New research published by academics hasRead More →
An iPhone serial number hack could explain why Apple killed its iCloud Activation Lock checker. Apple’s decision to remove its Activation Lock status checker from iCloud may have been becauseRead More →
Symantec is currently investigating reports of yet another new attack in the Middle East involving the destructive disk-wiping malware used by the Shamoon group (W32.Disttrack, W32.Disttrack.B). Similar to previous attacks,Read More →
Security researchers have uncovered a new trojan that targets Linux devices that is capable of transforming infected machines into proxy servers and relay malicious traffic, hiding the true origin ofRead More →
Security researcher Sebastian Krahmer has recently discovered that a previously known security flaw in the systemd project can be used for more than crashing a Linux distro but also toRead More →
Facebook has fixed a serious security bug that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video shared by anyone on their wall. A new bug was discovered inRead More →
Publicly known “magic string” lets any site run malicious code, no questions asked. The Chrome browser extension for Cisco Systems WebEx communications and collaboration service was just updated to fixRead More →
The first generation of Furby, the owlish electronic toy made by Hasbro, was met with enormous consumer demand when it hit shelves in November 1998. Thanks to their novel communicationRead More →
