Two insurance companies are suing a cyber-security firm to recover insurance fees paid to a customer after the security firm failed to detect malware on the client's network for months, an issue that led to one of the biggest security breaches of the 2000s. The security firms say … | Continue reading
A person's fingers leave thermal residue on keyboard keys that a malicious observer could record and later determine the text a user has entered on the keyboard, according to a recently published research paper by three scientists from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). | Continue reading
After a week of rumors, Microsoft has finally unveiled the latest Surface model called the Surface Go. This new version is the smallest version available with a 10" screen and also the cheapest at $399. | Continue reading
Timehop, a mobile app that surfaces old social media posts from the same day but from previous years, has announced a security breach affecting its entire userbase of over 21 million users. | Continue reading
Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17711 (Redstone 5) to insiders in the fast and skip ahead rings. This build adds new features to Microsoft Edge, a new HD Color settings screen, Fluent design changes, and an autocomplete function to the Registry Editor ad … | Continue reading
An old foe and one of the first ransomware strains is still around and making new victims, but this malware is keeping up with the times and has added a cryptocurrency-mining component that it deploys on carefully selected computers. | Continue reading
Today, Microsoft is rolling out a new update for its Android Launcher app that comes with a set of new features. The update advances Microsoft Launcher app to version 4.11 and with this release, the company is adding several new exciting features after previously testing them wit … | Continue reading
Adware, PUPs, and unwanted extensions are being promoted through fake sites that pretend to be adult video sites. When you click play on the video, a fake video player popup will be displayed that states you must download and install an updated media player to see the video. | Continue reading
Google and Mozilla have removed the Stylish browser extension from their respective add-on stores after the publication of a report this week that accused the extension of logging users' browser histories and sending the data to remote servers. | Continue reading
The makers of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online mods have played a cruel prank on GTA gamers this week after they used their mods to show fake GTA 6 launch announcements to online gamers. | Continue reading
Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes on some pretty shoddy reasoning that makes no sense and hints at the police's abuse of power. | Continue reading
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have developed a new type of material that can hide an object's heat signature from infrared sensors. | Continue reading
For the fourth time in as many months, Cisco has removed hardcoded credentials that were left inside one of its products, which an attacker could have exploited to gain access to devices and inherently to customer networks. | Continue reading
The release of Google Chrome 67 has reopened a "download bomb" bug that was exploited by tech support scammers last winter, and which had been fixed with the release of Chrome 65 in March 2018. | Continue reading
An Iranian cyber-espionage group attempted to pose as one of the cyber-security firms that exposed its previous hacking campaigns in an effort to spear-phish people interested in reading reports about it. | Continue reading
In a 747-page document provided to the US House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday, Facebook admitted that it granted special access to users' data to 61 tech companies. | Continue reading
Four academics from the Technical University in Dresden, Germany (TU Dresden) have created an app that detects and masks the hidden dot patterns that laser color printers secretly hide on all printed documents. | Continue reading
The team behind the Trezor wallet service has discovered a phishing attack against some of its users that took place over the weekend. | Continue reading
Microsoft fixed yesterday a faulty Debian package that was messing with users' OS settings during its installation routine. The faulty package that was causing all the problems was Open R v3.5. Open R is an enhanced version of the R programming language maintained by Microsoft. | Continue reading
Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform announced a data breach today after an unknown attacker downloaded a backup file containing sensitive customer information. | Continue reading
A team of academics has published research yesterday that describes three attacks against the mobile communication standard LTE (Long-Term Evolution), also known as 4G. | Continue reading
Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases, according to a report released this week by mobile security firm Appthority. | Continue reading
Exploit broker Zerodium is offering rewards of up to $500,000 for zero-days in UNIX-based operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, but also for Linux distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and Tails. | Continue reading
An unknown hacker has temporarily taken control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embedded malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user files. | Continue reading
Starting yesterday, there have been numerous reports of people being infected with something called "All-Radio 4.27 Portable". After researching this heavily today, it has been determined that seeing this program is a symptom of a much bigger problem on your computer. | Continue reading
The number of satellites transmitting GPS locations, cellphone signals and other sensitive information has been rapidly increasing, which has resulted in the creation of favorable circumstances for hackers. Even with all the advances in satellite technology, much of the US milita … | Continue reading
For the past two days, secure email provider ProtonMail has been fighting off DDoS attacks that have visibly affected the company's services, causing short but frequent outages at regular intervals. | Continue reading
Hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco software to crash and/or retrieve information from affected devices. Cisco is aware of the issue and has warned customers last week, Friday, June 22. | Continue reading
Microsoft just released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 (Redstone 5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast and Skip Ahead Rings. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 comes with a huge amount of improvements and new features that include ones for Microsoft Edge, new Skype exper … | Continue reading
An infosec researcher who uses the online pseudonym of Capt. Meelo has modified an NSA hacking tool known as DoublePulsar to work on the Windows IoT operating system (formerly known as Windows Embedded). | Continue reading
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted today to advance bill H.R. 3776, the Cyber Diplomacy Act. This bill outlines the restoration of the State Department's Cyber Office under the new name of Office of Cyberspace and the Digital Economy and the reinstatement of a head of c … | Continue reading
Security researchers from RIPS disclosed today details about an unpatched security flaw impacting WordPress, the Internet's most popular content management system (CMS). | Continue reading
A new file type format added in Windows 10 can be abused for running malicious code on users' computers, according to Matt Nelson, a security researcher for SpecterOps. | Continue reading
The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, if not more, have been stolen this month by an unknown attacker, Bleeping Computer has learned. | Continue reading
On Monday, the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that manages Wi-Fi technologies, announced the official release of WPA3. WPA3 is the latest version of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), a user authentication technology for Wi-Fi connections. | Continue reading
Mozilla will release Firefox 61 later today. The new browser version includes new features, bugfixes, security fixes, and modifications to the Firefox UI. | Continue reading
Security researchers have found, on average, five security flaws in each cryptocurrency ICO (Initial Coin Offering) held last year. Only one ICO held in 2017 did not contain any critical flaws. | Continue reading
Upcoming additions to the WebAssembly standard may render useless some of the mitigations put up at the browser level against Meltdown and Spectre attacks, according to John Bergbom, a security researcher at Forcepoint. | Continue reading
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's s central banking authority, told local banks to update all ATMs still running Windows XP to a newer operating system by June 2019, or face regulatory sanctions. | Continue reading
Many brands of webcams, security cameras, pet and baby monitors, use a woefully insecure cloud-based remote control system that can allow hackers to take over devices by performing Internet scans, modifying the device ID parameter, and using a default password to gain control ove … | Continue reading
An Iowa man will go to prison for the next 20 years after he attempted to hijack an Internet domain at gunpoint, tased and shot the victim, and got shot back himself. | Continue reading
Cybercriminals are currently developing a new strain of malware targeting Android devices which blends the features of a banking trojan, keylogger, and mobile ransomware. | Continue reading
New versions of the SamSam ransomware will not execute unless the person running the malware's payload enters a special password via the command-line. | Continue reading
A weird Edge bug that was fixed earlier this month, allows a malicious website to retrieve content from other sites by playing audio files in a malformed manner that produces unintended consequences. | Continue reading
Apple's macOS surreptitiously creates and caches thumbnails for images and other file types stored on password-protected / encrypted containers (hard drives, partitions), according to Wojciech Reguła and Patrick Wardle, two macOS security experts. | Continue reading
Security researchers from Romania-based antivirus vendor Bitdefender say they've discovered a new adware strain named Zacinlo that uses a rootkit component to gain persistence across OS reinstalls, a rootkit component that's even effective against Windows 10 installations. | Continue reading
An expert in Android security is warning users that some developers of crappy Android apps have come up with a new trick for fooling users into installing their apps. | Continue reading