Log wipers, timestompers may have helped hackers stay quiet in terabyte raids. Damballa researchers Willis McDonald and Loucif Kharouni say the attackers who flayed Sony Pictures with disk-cleansing malware mayRead More →
We have received a lot of reports about a new ransomware that we are calling CryptInfinite based on the Windows Registry key created by this ransomware. Other sites have also been calling this ransomware DecryptorMaxRead More →
Hacking group remains as focused as one week ago Quite a lot has happened after Anonymous declared cyber-war on ISIS members last weekend, but now, after a week passed fromRead More →
ONLINE AD NETWORKS and search engines love it when you surf around. Everything you do—every page you load, every query you type—helps them build a profile of you, the betterRead More →
VMware has patched an information disclosure vulnerability affecting a number of its products that use Flex BlazeDS. The original vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in August by Matthias Kaiser ofRead More →
Rohit Jawa fools officer into revealing personal details. Police officers investigating an eBay scammer must have been very surprised when the criminal, in a bold act of courage, stole their identitiesRead More →
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc said payment systems at 54 of its hotels in North America had been infected with a malware designed to collect payment card data. ARead More →
Even factory reset cannot smite the foulness that is Shedun. Michael Bentley of security-through-analytics outfit Lookout has found android malware that does not require user permission to install. Bentley, Lookout’sRead More →
Developers at LinkedIn fixed a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability in the social network this week that could have been exploited to spread a worm on the service’s help forums.Read More →
Brazilian whacks Arris for easy-t-o-guess default password, fix promised fast. Security bod Bernardo Rodrigues has found a backdoor-within-a-backdoor affecting some 600,000 Arris cable modems. The broadband kit company said, inRead More →
