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Short Bytes: The TOR Project has expressed its commitment to researching and developing new ways to mitigate the threats of security failure. Meanwhile, if TOR developers are asked to deploy some backdoor in the software, they would rather resign than honor the request. The Apple vs FBI case has polarised the tech community and government […]
Though the FBI has already hacked into the iPhone of suspected San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, there’s something missing — Mr. Kokumai, President of Mnemonic Security, Inc explains the reality of backdoor in our smartphones It appears that something crucial is overlooked in the heated debates about the backdoor on smartphones, which is the focus point of […]
The FBI has hacked into the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook and it didn’t even require for Apple’s help The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims that it has finally managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino suspected shooter without Apple‘s assistance — The hack also proves ex-NSA’s spy Edward Snowden right when he called the […]
The ongoing FBI vs. Apple war is certainly not over yet. The fight has proved that there is much more to it than meets the eye. New court filings by the government against Apple and a potentially ensuing battle with WhatsApp, most popular texting media, will probably mean secure communications might just be illegal in […]
The Government wants backdoor access to our devices so that it can protect us from terrorists and defend matters of national security. Even if its intentions are good, there are people out there that would abuse such a feature, security professionals attending the RSA conference agree. Endpoint protection and response, security and compliance solutions company […]
A group of researchers that analyzed security of a number of smart watches discovered a $17 smartwatch is sold with a backdoor in the pairing app. Be careful of cheap smartwatch offered on the web, security researchers at Mobile Iron have found that the U8 Smartwatch available on eBay for sale is offered with an Android or iOS app […]
Apple = 1 — U.S. Department of Justice = 0 On Monday, a federal judge went against the Justice Department and surprisingly sided with Apple Inc. The matter was related to forcing the iPhone maker firm to let investigators access data from a locked iPhone. This phone was seized during a drug investigation. The ruling […]
Short Bytes: When you read the headlines like “FBI is forcing Apple to create a backdoor in their products”, what you are really reading is that the FBI is forcing iPhone-maker to use the “pre-existing software update backdoor” present in iPhones. Surprisingly, a backdoor already exists in most software in the form of system updates and […]
The survey shows Americans are actually supporting FBI on the iPhone encryption issue. We all know about the heated debate going on between Apple and the FBI regarding weakening of security measures on the iPhone of alleged terrorists involved in the San Bernardino attack so that the agency could access data. We also know that […]
Hackers Compromise the Download Link for Linux Mint Deemed to be a “modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use”, Linux Mint is a community driven distribution system that uses Ubuntu as its codebase. It has garnered a lot of attention as an alternative Operating System and is has been downloaded, installed […]
The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday, intruders were able to compromise it and serve malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday 20th, February, intruders were able to compromise the website serving malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The disconcerting announcement was made […]
Short Bytes: The Cupertino-based company was asked by the US court to unlock the Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5C which the FBI wasn’t able the crack since the last two months. As a response, CEO Tim Cook wrote a customer letter expressing his denial to the court order. WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum and Google’s CEO […]
IoT security experts from Pen Test Partners have confirmed the presence of a backdoor in the firmware used by some DVR devices commonly deployed with CCTV surveillance systems. Security researchers from Pen Test Partners have a regular habit of picking up random IoT equipment and testing it for security vulnerabilities. In their most recent round […]
This smart building was hacked by IBM researchers to show hacking risks associated with Internet of Things. IBM security researchers are warning that building automation systems used to power so-called “smart buildings” pose a security risk to companies. According to Gartner, devices in smart homes and smart commercial buildings represented 45 percent of total connected […]
Security experts at Kaspersky have spotted in the wild a new variant of AlienSpy RAT Family openly offered with a model of malware-as-a-service. Today we will speak about a case of malware-as-a-service, in the specific case the threat is a remote access trojan, aka RAT, that could be used to gain control over multiple platforms, including […]
T9000 can also steal files from your hard drives. A new backdoor trojan is making the rounds, coming equipped with features that allow it to steal files, take screengrabs, and record Skype conversations. The trojan, named T9000, is an evolution of an older backdoor called T5000, spotted in the wild in 2013 and 2014 targeting human […]
Backdoor code was committed by a former Oracle employee. Developers of Socat, a *NIX-based networking utility, have discovered and patched a security bug affecting its encryption capabilities and that weakened the tool enough to allow attackers to downgrade and break encrypted data streams. Socat is a command-line utility for *NIX-based operating systems that enables developers to […]
MediaTek may not be on the short list of SoC companies whose chips you seek out when buying a new phone, but the company’s latest components have delivered some solid performance for their price, and it’s felt like the company’s status has been on the rise. Unfortunately, a new discovery casts a shadow over all […]
Scans for Fortinet devices have intensified. An unknown group has been scanning the Internet for old Fortinet equipment that includes a secret SSH backdoor account that can be exploited to take over the devices. Ten days ago, an anonymous user posted a full disclosure regarding a hidden account that was included in Fortinet’s FortiOS, on versions […]
Highly privileged account could be used to hack customers’ networks, researchers warn. A company that supplies audio-visual and building control equipment to the US Army, the White House, and other security-conscious organizations built a deliberately concealed backdoor into dozens of its products that could possibly be used to hack or spy on users, security researchers […]
This is how a $30 D-Link webcam can be converted into a backdoor. Researchers at US security firm Vectra Networks have hacked a ‘tiny’ D-Link web camera and demonstrated how it can be abused by cybercriminals and turned into a medium to steal data or for sending additional commands. In other words, they have shown how the […]