A new research has found out that numerous parking applications available in the smartphone market contain strong vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to attack the user and gain illegal access to the smartphone. NCC Group, the renowned information assurance firm tested six common Android parking applications with up to one million active users of which […]
Sony’s Play Station 4 is one of the world’s most popular and most selling gaming consoles with more than 10 million users. In a recent press release, Sony showed its figures. In two years, Sony has shipped more than 30 million consoles which are nearly double the sale figure of their competitor Microsoft’s Xbox One. Almost […]
NSA’s one of the known snooping tactics is installing a malware into hard drive’s firmware which makes the deletion of the malware nearly impossible even the malware can avoid formatting of the hard drive. Nemesis is a malware that can be used for similar purposes as it can avoid clean-up software and can even avoid […]
Linux is considered as one of the most secure operating systems — However, there’s a trojan attacking specifically those on Linux. Linux users could be in danger of getting attacked by a powerful and picky Trojan as a Russian anti-virus maker, Dr.Web, has found a Trojan which is aimed towards Linux users known as Rekoobe. […]
Hidden analytics code tracks everything users do, EVERYTHING Analytics code deeply hidden in popular Google Chrome extensions is being used to track users across the Web, in different browser tabs, and without user consent. Swedish company Detectify Labs made this discovery, and its researchers are pointing the finger at popular extensions like HooverZoom, SpeakIt, ProxFlow, […]
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 may have stayed hidden using newly-uncovered anti-forensics tools. The pair found the updated weaponry in the latest version of the Destover malware, best known as the […]
A Facebook bug is not a surprising thing to know about but Zuckerberg quitting his job as the Facebook’s CEO is not only surprising but also shocking. Yes, Facebook Bug makes Mark Zuckerberg Quit his Job from Facebook. This is not a technical flaw it’s just a bug discovered by a Nepal-based security researcher Sachin Thakuri. The […]
CARNEGIE MELLON’S researchers pulled their talk on cracking the protections of the anonymity software Tor from the schedule of the Black Hat security conference in 2014, the university has been nearly silent about rumors that their technique ended up in the FBI’s hands. Now the university has finally spoken up—to deny the Tor Project’s claim […]
Al-Hayat, an agency that spreads all the content relevant to ISIS on different online platforms has announced the ISIS intentions on moving their operations to Dark web. There are a number of blogs and forums the agency posts regarding ISIS activities. Most significant of them are the Ansar Khilafah blog and the Shamikh forums. In […]
Point of sale malware has gotten more sophisticated as we inch closer to the two-year anniversary of the Target data breach. Now, two weeks from the biggest shopping day of the year, two new and different strains of point of sale malware have come to light, including one that’s gone largely undetected for the past […]
A group of researchers from Checkpoint Security firm claimed that they have breached phishing servers that were used by the Rocket Kitten. Rocket Kitten is a group of hackers who are believed to be working in cahoots with the Iranian government. Rocket Kitten came into the spotlight in April 2014 and were unmasked in May […]
Denis Andzakovic, a security researcher for Security Assessment, has created a tool that can fool the KeePass password manager into exporting its internal passwords database as a CSV file, showing user account credentials in cleartext. The tool, which he ironically named KeeFarce, is available on GitHub, and despite its powerful attributes, it only works if […]
Short Bytes: A security researchers from the Pen Testers Partners has revealed that the smart iKettles in your homes are very “insecure.” This device could be used to leak your home’s private WiFi password and take over your digital life. The IoT security is much-debated topic that needs more attention in near future. It might […]
Unbelievable Breaking News: IoT kettles are insecure. Security researchers at Pen Test Partners have found a security vulnerability in the iKettle Wi-Fi Electric Kettle that allows attackers to crack the password of the WiFi network to which the kettle is connected. iKettle is one of the new-era electronic devices that manufacturers are taunting as IoT (Internet […]
Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policy forbidding the gathering of e-mail addresses, installed apps, serial numbers, and other personally identifying information that can be used to track users. The apps, which […]
Putrid Piper picked apart a packet for just $15. KU Leuven Phd student Mathy Vanhoef has smashed conventional wireless security thought by creating continual, targeted and virtually indefensible stealth jamming of WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee networks, and tampering with encrypted traffic, with little more than a $15 dongle. The wireless security boffin presented his work […]
Researcher finds reflected XSS bug in Drupal 8.Drupal 8 isn’t even out yet but security experts have been hard at work auditing the code and reporting security bugs, helping the open source community strengthen one of its most beloved Content Management Systems (CMSs). Sandeep Kamble, a security researchers for SecureLayer7, has uncovered an XSS (cross-site […]
Researchers recently discovered a smattering of vulnerabilities in web applications and mobile applications belonging to companies like Yahoo, PayPal, Magento, and Shopify that could have led to account theft, session hijacking, and phishing, among other consequences. Hadji Samir, Ebrahim Hegazy, Ayoub Ait Elmokhtar, and Benjamin Kunz Mejri, researchers with Vulnerability Lab, found the bugs earlier this […]
Short Bytes: According to a new research, your BitTorrent client and BitTorrent Sync can be targeted and successfully exploited for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Attackers can use BitTorrent protocols to amplify and reflect traffic using the fellow torrent users using the original bandwidth. The paper named “P2P File-sharing in Hell: Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to […]
A video demonstration by the University of California researchers how a simple text message can control your car. The months of July and August have been bad for the automotive industry, thanks to the hackers who found out how easy it is to hack Jeep Cherokee leaving 470,000 vehicles vulnerable. As if that wasn’t enough when another hacker demonstrated […]
Facial recognition software is cropping up everywhere, so it was only a matter of time before anti facial recognition tech started to catch up. Naturally, Japan is leading the way in R&D. That’s right; Japan’s National Institute of Informatics is now developing ‘privacy glasses’ that make human faces unreadable to machines. An earlier (less flattering and […]