The experts at BleepingComputer reported a new strain of CTB-Locker for Websites, a new ransomware that mainly targets WordPress sites. Ransomware continues to threaten users worldwide, today we discussed German Hospitals paralyzed by the malware. TeslaCrypt, Cryptowall and Locky are the names of the most popular ransomware that already infected millions machines worldwide. The experts at BleepingComputer reported a new […]
Securing Hospitals is a report issued by Independent Security Evaluators that demonstrates how hackers can hack hospitals putting lives in danger. A group of experts from the Independent Security Evaluators research team have tested the security of hospital networks, demonstrating how it is possible to gain access to critical medical equipment in attacks they say could put lives in danger. […]
2015 Gemalto Breach Level Index report confirmed the increased interest of threat actors in Government and healthcare data. As per the security firm Gemalto, Government and healthcare have overwhelmed the retail area as most-focused for information breaks. An aggregate of 1,673 information ruptures prompted 707 million information records being traded off worldwide amid 2015, as […]
New ransomware infections hit Germany hospitals, at least two structures were infected by the dreaded malware. New ransomware infections hit hospitals in Germany, at least two of them were infected by the dreaded malware. According to local reports, the systems at two German hospitals were infected by a ransomware, in a similar way occurred recently at the US Hollywood […]
The NSA tapped world leaders for US Geopolitical Interests, including a conversation between Netanyahu-Berlusconi over the U.S.-Israel Relations. A couple of days ago the non-profit journalistic organisation WikiLeaks published a collection of highly classified documents that reveals the NSA targeted world leaders for US Geopolitical Interests. Some of the intercepts are classified TOP-SECRET COMINT-GAMMA, these are most […]
Apple has patched more than 60 vulnerabilities affecting the Apple TV, including flaws that can lead to arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. IoT devices are enlarging our attack surface, we are surrounded by devices that manage a huge quantity of information and that could be abused by hackers. Apple has patched more than 60 […]
Cisco has released security updates for the products CISCO ACE 4710 appliance to fix a high severity command injection vulnerability. This week CISCO published a security advisory related a Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2016-1297) affecting its product Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine Command. The vulnerability was reported to the company by Jan Kadijk, an expert at Warpnet BV. The […]
A judge has confirmed that US Departement of Defense funded the Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on the Tor hacking. In November 2015, the researchers at the Tor Project publicly accused the FBI of paying the experts at the Carnegie Mellon University to deanonymize Tor users. The experts at the Tor Project collected information about the […]
Apple has begun developing security features for the new iPhone to make it impossible for the law enforcement agencies to break into a locked iPhone The news related to the request made by the FBI to Apple of unlocking the iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters has raised the debate on the efficiency of […]
The security researcher Kafeine confirmed that the authors of the Angler EK have integrated the exploit for a recently patched Microsoft Silverlight vulnerability. Ransomware is becoming one of the most dreaded cyber threats for netizens, security experts noticed a surge in the number of cyber attacks aimed to spread malware like Cryptowall and TeslaCrypt. Exploit kits like the Nuclear EK […]