At the fifth annual European Security Blogger Awards at Infosecurity Europe in London SecurityAffairs was awarded as Best European Personal Security Blog Yesterday, during the fifth annual European Security Blogger Awards at Infosecurity Europe in London SecurityAffairs received the award as Best European Personal Security Blog. The awards were assigned through a public vote and votes assigned […]
A hacker is offering for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials with plans to sell the account details on the Dark Web. Recent news of massive data breaches suffered by IT giants LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com shocked the security industry. Millions of login credentials are available for sale in the principal black markets, […]
Global Intelligence Insight, working with SecurityAffairs and SecurityMediaPublishing deliver a weekly report on issues in Syria and Iraq as well as extremist related global terrorism. GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT Global Intelligence Insight, working with SecurityAffairs and SecurityMediaPublishing will deliver a weekly report on issues in Syria and Iraq as well as extremist related global terrorism. Data […]
A security expert discovered that a crafted PDF document that includes an embedded JPG2000 image can trigger a buffer overflow in the Chrome PDF reader. The security expert Aleksandar Nikolic from the Cisco Talos group has discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability (CVE-2016-1681) in PDFium, which is the PDF reader component installed by default in Google Chrome […]
New research conducted by Citrix indicates that some businesses are stockpiling Bitcoins so they can pay cybercriminals fast in case of ransomware attacks. New research conducted by Citrix, a corporate networking company, indicates that some businesses are stockpiling Bitcoins so they can pay cybercriminals fast, if their data is held ransom by malicious software. Ransomware […]
The ÎŒTorrent team announced its community ÎŒTorrent forum has been hacked. Hundreds of thousand records belonging its users have been exposed. Are you a Torrent user? Are you one of the users of the popular ΌTorrent Forum? You might be in trouble because the ÎŒTorrent Forum was hacked. ÎŒTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients, […]
The potential of IoT devices connected over cloud networks is breathtaking, opening opportunities that will forever change societal culture. Itâs a buzzword that has been around the past decade and has often been portrayed in futuristic visions of a society where man and technology has integrated into one. The potential of IoT devices connected over cloud […]
A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden and analyzed by The Intercept reveals that MI5 collected significantly more data than it can use. A lot of documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the British Security service MI5 confirmed it was collecting “significantly more than it is able to exploit fully.” The facts date back to 2010, […]
The FTCâs chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked, she shared her experience of a victim of such kind of Id Theft. The incident that I’m going to tell you is worrisome, the US Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist Lorrie Cranor gets her phone number hijacked. The FTC’s chief technologist was hacked by someone posing […]
Boffins released a paper describing how computer processors can be programmed to give elevated privileges to hackers and run fabrication-time attacks. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan recently released a paper describing how computer processors can be programmed to give elevated privileges to hackers. The paper titled, âA2: Analog Malicious Hardware,â describes […]