Hungarian police arrested a young hacker because he discovered and exploited serious vulnerabilities in the systems of the Magyar Telekom Which are the risks for a hacker that decide to publicly disclose a vulnerability? The case I’m going to discuss shows us legal implication for this conduct. Last year, Hungarian law enforcement arrested a young […]
IBM’s security researchers demonstrated that the Siri Shortcuts introduced in the Apple iOS 12 can be abused by attackers. Apple implemented Siri Shortcuts in the iOS 12 to allow users to rapidly access to applications and features, they can automate common tasks and can be integrated by third-party developers in their software. Researchers at IBM […]
The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. Houzz has over 40 million monthly unique users, at the time is not clear how many individuals are affected. […]
On Friday, Apple announced that the FaceTime issue recently discovered has been partially fixed, the company plans to release a complete update next week. This week, Apple issued a partial fix for the FaceTime issue recently discovered, the tech giant plans to release a complete update next week. Apple experts implemented a server-side patch, but the […]
Palo Alto Networks discovered a piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that is targeting browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites.. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that steals browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites along with other sensitive data. […]
The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach that exposed some employees’ data. The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers broke into the company “Commercial Aircraft business” information systems and gained access to some of its employees’ personal information. “Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) […]
Security researchers at the security firm Capsule8 have published exploit code for the vulnerabilities in Linux systemD disclosed in January.Security researchers at the security firm Capsule8 have published exploit code for the vulnerabilities in Linux systemD disclosed in January. Early this month, security firm Qualys disclosed three flaws (CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866 ) in a […]
Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi,discovered a way to spread CSV malware via Google Sheets … but Big G says it is anIntended behavior A .CSV file could be a malware carrier and if interpreted by Microsoft Excel it could become a malware executor ! When I personally saw this technique back in […]
Imperva mitigated a SYN flood DDoS attack against one of its clients that exceeded 500 million packets per second, this is the largest ever. Earlier this month, the cyber security software and services company Imperva mitigated an attack against one of its clients that exceeded 500 million packets per second. This attack was a SYN […]
The popular travel search website Skyscanner is going to launch a bug bounty program, the company will pay up to $2,000 per vulnerability. The travel search website Skyscanner announced a public bug bounty program that will pay up to $2,000 per vulnerability. Skyscanner has been running a private bug bounty program that according to the […]