Breach comes a year after a previous hack compromised 300,000 people. The US Internal Revenue Service was the target of a malware attack that netted electronic tax-return credentials for 101,000 socialRead More →
A password reset flaw allowed hacker to hijack numerous Twitter accounts from their original owners. Twitter followers of @god, @emoji, and @vagina were in for surprise today when their favourite TwitterRead More →
Home routers with little to no security are far too common. They’re dangerous from a number of perspectives: as peeping holes for spying on people’s daily web use, for filtering stolen files and forRead More →
Oxford, Miss. (TLV)—Sunday, Feb 7, The Oxford School District was attacked by an “unknown hacker” using “crypto-ransomware.” OSD has shut down all servers and is currently working to resume regularRead More →
Short Bytes: An attack by a hacker has just revealed the sensitive information of about 20,000 FBI employees. Besides this personal contact information of the FBI employees, the hacker alsoRead More →
Banking malware is using techniques once reserved for state-sponsored hacking gangs. To appreciate how malware targeting banks and other financial institutions is adopting sophisticated techniques once reserved for state-sponsored spiesRead More →
A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the dataRead More →
Oracle patches Java installer against DLL hijacking issue. Oracle has released new Java installers to fix a well-known security issue (CVE-2016-0603) that also affects o plethora of other applications, from WebRead More →
Experts at the SANS Technology Institute spotted an OS X scareware campaign that leverages fake Adobe Flash Player installers. Johannes Ullrich, security expert at the SANS Technology Institute, spotted anRead More →
Another antivirus maker decides to mess around with Chromium default security features and gets it totally wrong. Just two days after Comodo’s Chromodo browser was publicly shamed by Google ProjectRead More →
