August 8, 2016
Bitfinex asks users to share losses of bitcoin theft
August 8, 2016
PCs’ PCs pwned: Irish cops probe mystery malware attack
August 8, 2016
iOS 9.3.4 Patches Critical Code Execution Flaw
August 8, 2016
Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens
August 8, 2016
Eye of Sauron-themed trojan targets Russia, Sweden
August 8, 2016
How to spear-phish Twitter users with greater success
August 8, 2016
Broken BitBank Bitfinex shaves 36% from all accounts
August 8, 2016
Video surveillance recorders riddled with zero-days
August 7, 2016
Andreas Cord-Landwehr discovered that kde4libs, the core libraries for all KDE 4 applications, do not properly handle the extraction of archives with “../” in the file paths. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite files outside of the extraction folder, if a user is tricked into extracting a specially crafted archive. […]
August 7, 2016
24 Funny, Upsetting and Shocking Hacked Traffic Signs
August 7, 2016
Kazakhstan accused of hacking journos, activists by EFF
August 6, 2016
Phisherfolk phlock to Rio for the Olympics
August 6, 2016
Ubuntu: 3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability Posted by Anthony Pell LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if itopened a specially crafted file. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3046-1 August 04, 2016 libreoffice vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: LibreOffice […]
August 6, 2016
Never Trust a Found USB Drive, Black Hat Demo Shows Why
August 6, 2016
Debian: 3641-1: openjdk-7: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3641-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff August 04, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : openjdk-7 CVE ID : CVE-2016-3458 CVE-2016-3500 CVE-2016-3508 CVE-2016-3550 CVE-2016-3606 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in […]
August 6, 2016
Apple Launches Bug Bounty with Maximum $200,000 Reward
August 6, 2016
Risk management: Picking the right tool for the job
August 6, 2016
Lack of Encryption Leads to Large Scale Cookie Exposure
August 6, 2016
Red Hat: 2016:1573-01: squid: Moderate Advisory Posted by Anthony Pell An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: […]
August 6, 2016
Black Hat 2016 wrap-up: Same stuff, different year?
August 6, 2016
How Bugs Lead to a Better Android
August 6, 2016
Miller, Valasek Deliver Final Car Hacking Talk
August 6, 2016
Hacking Hotel Keys and Point of Sale Systems at DEFCON
August 6, 2016
Debian: 3640-1: firefox-esr: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3640-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff August 03, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : firefox-esr CVE ID : CVE-2016-2830 CVE-2016-2836 CVE-2016-2837 CVE-2016-2838 CVE-2016-5252 CVE-2016-5254 CVE-2016-5258 CVE-2016-5259 CVE-2016-5262 CVE-2016-5263 CVE-2016-5264 CVE-2016-5265 Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla […]
August 6, 2016
Apple’s bug bounty program favors quality over quantity
August 6, 2016
The advanced security techniques of criminal hackers
August 6, 2016
Never Trust a Found USB Drive, Black Hat Demo Shows Why
August 6, 2016
Why some risk assessments fail
August 6, 2016
Discovered: August 4, 2016 Updated: August 5, 2016 3:38:31 PM Type: Trojan, Virus Infection Length: Varies Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP SONAR.BC.CryptDrop!g4 is a heuristic detection to detect suspicious programs that might drop known […]
August 6, 2016
Social engineering tricks and why CEO fraud emails work
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Joshua Drake on Android Security Post-Stagefright
August 6, 2016
Debian: 3639-1: wordpress: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3639-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso August 03, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : wordpress CVE ID : CVE-2015-8834 CVE-2016-5832 CVE-2016-5834 CVE-2016-5835 CVE-2016-5837 CVE-2016-5838 CVE-2016-5839 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote […]
August 6, 2016
How to wade through the flood of security buzzwords and hype
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam
August 6, 2016
Researchers Bypass Chip-and-Pin Protections at Black Hat
August 6, 2016
The changing economics of cybercrime
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Researchers Bypass Chip-and-Pin Protections at Black Hat
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Debian: 3638-1: curl: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3638-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Alessandro Ghedini August 03, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : curl CVE ID : CVE-2016-5419 CVE-2016-5420 CVE-2016-5421 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2016-5419 Bru Rom discovered that libcurl would attempt […]
August 6, 2016
Afraid someone is misusing your webcam?
Imagine a situation where you are working on your laptop and all of the sudden the green light next to your built-in webcam blinks for a second and immediately goes dark again. Would you just ignore it? Or would you start digging around to find out if it was something more serious? If you want […]
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
August 6, 2016
Big spike in card fraud in Europe
There was a notable spike in card fraud in Europe last year, with the UK the worst hit, according to new data from FICO. The tech company revealed that the UK experienced an 18% rise in card fraud over a 12-month period, resulting in losses worth approximately $118 million. The UK is clearly a big […]
August 6, 2016
Earn up to $200,000 as Apple *finally* launches a bug bounty
August 6, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
August 6, 2016
Fake Prisma apps found on Google Play
Before the release of the Android version of Prisma, a popular photo transformation app, fake Prisma apps flooded the Google Play Store. ESET researchers discovered fake Prisma apps of different types, including several dangerous trojan downloaders. The Google Play security team removed them from the official Android store at ESET’s notice. Prior to that point, […]
August 6, 2016
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scriping, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 45.3.0esr-1~deb8u1. For the […]
August 6, 2016
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1551-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
August 6, 2016
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scriping, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 45.3.0esr-1~deb8u1. For the […]
August 6, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote attackers to compromise a site via cross-site scripting, bypass restrictions, obtain sensitive revision-history information, or mount a denial of service. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u9. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.
August 6, 2016
Yahoo looks into major data breach claims
Yahoo is looking into claims that it has become the latest high-profile victim of a major data breach. It is thought up to 200 million accounts are affected. If found to be true, it is thought to be connected to an unknown individual who refers to himself as Peace. He has already claimed responsibility for […]
August 6, 2016
Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck’s Accelerator and Brakes
August 6, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote attackers to compromise a site via cross-site scripting, bypass restrictions, obtain sensitive revision-history information, or mount a denial of service. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u9. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.
August 6, 2016
An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: ntp security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1552-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1552.html Issue date: 2016-08-03 CVE […]
August 6, 2016
200 million Yahoo passwords being sold on the dark web?
August 6, 2016
Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams
August 6, 2016
Car hacking at speed – where vulnerabilities turn from critical to fatal
There’s a fundamental difference between criminal hackers and white hat vulnerability researchers. When a white hat finds a vulnerability they may explore it, and write an interesting presentation about what can be achieved through the flaw, but once they’ve described the security weakness to the appropriate party and the hole is closed – that’s it. […]
August 6, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2016-5419 Bru Rom discovered that libcurl would attempt to resume a TLS session even if the client certificate had changed. CVE-2016-5420 It was discovered that libcurl did not consider client certificates when reusing TLS connections. CVE-2016-5421 Marcelo Echeverria and Fernando Muñoz discovered that libcurl was […]
August 6, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2016-5419 Bru Rom discovered that libcurl would attempt to resume a TLS session even if the client certificate had changed. CVE-2016-5420 It was discovered that libcurl did not consider client certificates when reusing TLS connections. CVE-2016-5421 Marcelo Echeverria and Fernando Muñoz discovered that libcurl was […]
August 6, 2016
2016 Rio Olympic Games: The safe way to obtain tickets online
This year is the year of sporting fans. Over the past few months especially, they have had the opportunity to move from one big sporting event to the next with few gaps in-between. First, just before the summer break, sports fans enjoyed a full month of football with the European Championship in France, followed by […]
August 6, 2016
Red Hat: 2016:1541-03: kernel-rt: Important Advisory Posted by Anthony Pell An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: […]
August 6, 2016
Profiles in cryptographic courage
I recently finished reading “Hedy’s Folly” by the scholar Richard Rhodes. In it he discusses the “most beautiful woman in the world,” 1930s and ‘40s superstar Hedy Lamarr. With her composer friend George Antheil, she invented frequency hopping. Frequency hopping (or spread spectrum) is a technology that underlies the communication transport and security of almost […]
August 6, 2016
Android users to receive notifications when new devices added to account
Android users will receive push notifications on their smartphone, alerting them to a new device being added to their account, Google has announced. It said that this feature is a key component of security, complementing other features like two-step verification and single sign-on. In particular, all of these features ensure that Android users are safe […]
August 6, 2016
Advertisers could be tracking you via your battery status
August 6, 2016
Red Hat: 2016:1538-01: golang: Moderate Advisory Posted by Anthony Pell An update for golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: […]
August 6, 2016
Barclays launches voice recognition technology for telephone banking
When it comes to telephone banking, Barclays is looking to lead the way by enabling voice recognition technology for all of its customers. This means that when it comes to the usual security process for this particular service, instead of typing in a password, customers will instead be verified by their voice. While the bank […]
August 6, 2016