January 3, 2017
Police mull gathering crime evidence from smart home devices
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
January 3, 2017
If you’re anything like me, you probably make a bunch of lofty resolutions every year that you probably won’t, or even can’t, achieve. (For instance, I’ve been promising to hit the gym a little harder for about 6 years now.) But enough is enough. Here are 5 completely achievable resolutions to help keep you and […]
January 3, 2017
How to remove ransomware from your LG Smart TV
January 3, 2017
Apple sued over fatal FaceTime car crash
January 3, 2017
Deprecation of Insecure Algorithms and Protocols in RHEL 6.9
January 3, 2017
Weekly review – the hot 13 stories of the week
January 3, 2017
Army social media psyops bods struggling to attract fresh blood
January 3, 2017
Better authentication: Go get 'em, FIDO
Only a handful of industry associations accomplish what they set out to do. In the security realm, I’ve always been a huge fan of the Trusted Computing Group. It’s one of the few vendor organizations that truly makes computers more secure in a holistic manner. The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance is another group with lots […]
January 3, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
January 3, 2017
Programmer finds way to liberate ransomware’d Google Smart TVs
January 3, 2017
Libpng library gets fix for truly ancient bug
January 3, 2017
Android tops 2016 vuln list, with 523 bugs
January 3, 2017
Russian ‘grid attack’ turns out to be a damp squib
January 3, 2017
Top Secret -cleared SOCOM staff in 11GB Govt contractor breach
January 3, 2017
security update
January 2, 2017
5 Premium VPN Services To Access HULU Outside The US
January 2, 2017
Philippine Military Website Hacked and Defaced
January 2, 2017
Latest iMessage Hack Crashes iPhone within Minutes
January 2, 2017
A lesson from network outages: Redundancy matters
January 2, 2017
Cyber-savvy New Year’s resolutions you’ll want to keep
Put cyber security at the top of your New Year’s resolution list for 2017, implementing a digital detox and improving your online behaviors. The post Cyber-savvy New Year’s resolutions you’ll want to keep appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
January 1, 2017
Russian Malware Found in Vermont Electricity Department Laptop
December 31, 2016
Anonymous Hacks, Defaces Bilderberg Group Website Against World Crisis
December 31, 2016
security update
December 31, 2016
OurMine Group Hacks Nat Geo Photography’s Twitter Account
December 30, 2016
FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks
December 30, 2016
Pakistan automotive giant PakWheels Hacked, 700k accounts stolen
December 30, 2016
Uber, Apple Maps and location tracking: what’s really going on?
December 30, 2016
Hedge fund turns to AI to navigate through the maze
December 30, 2016
Lithuania says Russian spyware infected government computers
December 30, 2016
Ransomware “Star” Shines on LG Smart TV As ransomware continues to steal the malware stage, its authors have widened their target audience to include smart devices, such as TVs. Since a number of smart TVs use Android® operating systems, they can be susceptible to the same Android malware that usually strikes mobile devices. Recently, […]
December 30, 2016
The 10 biggest security incidents of 2016
In 2016, companies have had their security solutions tested by increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. We look at the year’s biggest security incidents. The post The 10 biggest security incidents of 2016 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 30, 2016
In deep: the internet’s underwater weak links
December 30, 2016
What 2017 has in store for cybersecurity
December 30, 2016
Obama expels 35 Russian spies over election hacking
December 30, 2016
Who helped Russia “hack” the US election? It might have been you…
December 30, 2016
Why wait for news on the next big thing in technology, when you can get a sneak peek at the hottest, up-and-coming consumer tech and innovations at CES 2017? For the last 50 years, the yearly CES event has served as a showcase and springboard for the latest advancements in tech as they enter the […]
December 29, 2016
Anonymous Hacks Thai LA Consulate to Protest Arrests and Cyber Law
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in mod_wsgi could lead to privilege escalation.
December 29, 2016
Retailers! Avoid getting hacked during the holiday season (or any other time of the year)
Tips for cash-strapped retailers looking to avoid getting hacked, during the holiday shopping season, or any other season. The post Retailers! Avoid getting hacked during the holiday season (or any other time of the year) appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 29, 2016
Microsoft May Stop Forcing You to Upgrade to Windows 10
December 29, 2016
Threatpost 2016 Year in Review
December 29, 2016
Your new year’s resolution: get ready for GDPR
December 29, 2016
Meet the Leet DDoS Botnet, Just as Powerful as Mirai
December 29, 2016
Sultry Sextortion Sisters Meet Their Match In Nigerian Oil Billionaire
December 29, 2016
Welcome to America. Now, what’s your Twitter handle?
December 29, 2016
Guest post: Whose genes are they anyway?
December 29, 2016
5 signs we’re finally getting our act together on security
December 29, 2016
5 key technologies to double down on now
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: New python packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…]
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…]
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.2.4 with backport for XSS vulnerability.
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to latest jquery1 stable, with backport fix for XSS vulnerability.)
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: This update adds security sandboxing to tracker-extract.
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to latest jquery1 stable, with backport fix for XSS vulnerability.)
December 29, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: fix for “TLS SecurityMode.required bypass via StripTLS attack”(rhbz#1406703,1406704)
December 29, 2016
security update
December 29, 2016
LG Smart TV Screen Bricked After Android Ransomware Infection
December 28, 2016
How to Choose the Perfect Laptop for Online Study
December 28, 2016
Someone DDoSed ExtraTorrent Domain while ThePirateBay suffered downtime
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: * Mon Dec 12 2016 Norvald H. Ryeng – 5.7.17-1 -Update to MySQL 5.7.17, for various fixes described athttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-17.html – Add newplugin: connnection_control.so – Add MySQL Group Replication:group_replication.so – Add numactl-devel to buildreq and enable NUMA support (ifavailable) – Simplify boost path – Build compat-openssl10 in rawhide for now -Reqs. in -devel packages was […]
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated to 2.1.4
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: This update contains a **SECURITY** fix for an issue with potentially seriousconsequences but very limited scope. If an administrator of a wiki you talked tousing python-wikitcms were malicious, they could cause arbitrary code executionas the user running wikitcms. No-one besides a wiki administrator could do this,as it requires crafting the wiki’s response to an […]
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated to 2.1.4
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: This update contains a **SECURITY** fix for an issue with potentially seriousconsequences but very limited scope. If an administrator of a wiki you talked tousing python-wikitcms were malicious, they could cause arbitrary code executionas the user running wikitcms. No-one besides a wiki administrator could do this,as it requires crafting the wiki’s response to an […]
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.2.4 with backport for XSS vulnerability.
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-4330, CVE-2016-4331, CVE-2016-4332, CVE-2016-4333
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: two security flaws (#1406840) x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts[XSA-202, CVE-2016-10024] x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation[XSA-203, CVE-2016-10025] x86: Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep duringemulation [XSA-204, CVE-2016-10013] (#1406260)
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: * Mon Dec 12 2016 Norvald H. Ryeng – 5.7.17-1 -Update to MySQL 5.7.17, for various fixes described athttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-17.html – Add newplugin: connnection_control.so – Add MySQL Group Replication:group_replication.so – Add numactl-devel to buildreq and enable NUMA support (ifavailable) – Simplify boost path – Build compat-openssl10 in rawhide for now -Reqs. in -devel packages was […]
December 28, 2016
LinuxSecurity.com: – fix floating point buffer overflow issues (CVE-2016-9586)
December 28, 2016
Three Chinese Hackers Made Millions by Hacking American Law Firms
December 28, 2016
Mixing biology with technology: what could possibly go wrong?
December 28, 2016
‘Meltdown’ over international cybersecurity agreement
December 28, 2016
Thai Police Arrest 9 Suspects Behind Cyber Attacks on Gov’t Sites
December 28, 2016
Four New Normals for 2017
December 28, 2016
Weekly review – the hot 28 stories of the past week
December 28, 2016
Trio charged with $4m insider trading by hacking merger lawyers
December 28, 2016
How Microsoft will drive enterprise IT in 2017
December 28, 2016
Encryption in 2016: Small victories add up
December 28, 2016
Android Trojan Switcher Infects Routers via DNS Hijacking
December 28, 2016
What is encryption and how does it work?
It has become one of the most topical and discussed topics in information security in recent times. In this video we outline some of the key aspects of encryption. The post What is encryption and how does it work? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 28, 2016
security update
December 27, 2016
PHPMailer Bug Leaves Millions of Websites Open to Attack
December 27, 2016