First major automaker (aside from Tesla) to issue guidelines promising not to sue researchers. On January 5, General Motors quietly flipped the switch on Detroit’s first public security vulnerability disclosureRead More →
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 →
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 →
Romanian police have acted to end a series of malware ATM attacks carried out in Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Romania. Alleged members of an international criminal group responsibleRead More →
With the year-end shopping season over, many consumers now have new various smart gadgets in their homes. One particularly popular usage of this so-called Internet of Things (IoT) are smart TVs. TheseRead More →
A new malware campaign is aiming specifically at businesses and consumers using the WhatsApp mobile messaging service. Uncovered by researchers at Comodo Labs the campaign uses emails masquerading as WhatsAppRead More →
Short Bytes: Last year, the FBI engaged in the largest ever law enforcement hacking campaign to shut down “the largest remaining known child pornography hidden service in the world.” TheRead More →
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 →
Short Bytes: Ghost Squad Hackers group has taken down multiple .gov websites in Ethiopia. The collective has blamed the government for killing “students for opposing the ‘master plan’ to expandRead More →
A number of weeks back, security researcher Parvez Anwar posted a number of DLL hijacking vulnerabilities within Microsoft Office on Twitter [1]. The following week, Microsoft released MS15-132, which addressedRead More →
