Privacy Advocates Launch Anonymous Calling App
2015-10-24
For those who seek privacy while working online, you now have a solution in “Warble,” an Anonymous calling app for Android, iOS and Windows OS. Warble is an app developedRead More →
Data of 4 million TalkTalk customers likely stolen in wake of website attack
2015-10-24
TalkTalk, one of UK’s biggest telecoms, has suffered a “significant and sustained cyberattack” on their website, and it’s possible that personal and financial information of some 4 million of theRead More →
Sony pays up to $8m over employees’ hacked data
2015-10-23
Sony has agreed to pay up to $8m over employees’ personal data lost in the 2014 hacking scandal surrounding the release of The Interview. Hackers had broken into the company’sRead More →
Novel NTP Attacks Roll Back Time
2015-10-23
Sharon Goldberg remembers the cold February day when her Boston University PhD candidate Aanchal Malhotra was studying routing security, in particular, attacks against the resource public key infrastructure (RPKI)—and keptRead More →
Apple pushes out critical security updates for OS X, iOS, watchOS, and other products
2015-10-23
Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, iOS, iTunes, Xcode, andRead More →
Fitbit trackers can easily be infected with malware, and spread it on
2015-10-23
Security researcher Axelle Apvrille has managed to deliver malware to a FitBit Flex fitness tracker, and to spread the infection to any computer that the device is subsequently connected to.Read More →
Linux Kernel 4.2.4 Is Now Available for Download, Has Hundreds of Changes
2015-10-23
All users of the Linux 4.2 kernel must upgrade It looks like it’s still October 22 in some countries, so Greg Kroah-Hartman announced just a few minutes ago the immediateRead More →
New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos
2015-10-22
Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages. Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encryptedRead More →
How to root Xiaomi smartphones effectively
2015-10-22
My new Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone arrived yesterday after an interlude with a German customs agent and several days of delay. I first thought that I had to fight myRead More →
Oracle Quarterly Security Update Patches 154 Vulnerabilities
2015-10-22
Oracle on Tuesday patched 154 vulnerabilities in 54 different products as part of its regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update. More than half of the patches, 84 to be exact, addressRead More →
