Security News

Most organizations were victims of business email compromise in 2016 (Help Net Security)
2017-04-06 13:00

Nearly three quarters of corporate treasury and finance professionals said their companies were victims of payments fraud last year, according to the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP)....

Lessons From Top-to-Bottom Compromise of Brazilian Bank (Threatpost)
2017-04-04 19:50

Hackers pulled off a stunning compromise of a Brazilian bank’s operations, gaining control of each of the bank’s 36 domains, corporate email and DNS.

Critical Moodle Vulnerability Could Lead to Server Compromise (Threatpost)
2017-03-21 18:48

A critical vulnerability in Moodle, an open source system deployed across hundreds of thousands of universities, could expose the server to compromise.

Unpatched flaw opens Ubiquiti Networks devices to compromise (Help Net Security)
2017-03-17 20:45

A critical vulnerability in many of Ubiquiti Networks’ networking devices can be exploited by attackers to take over control of the device and, if that device acts as a router or firewall, to take...

Malvertising campaign compromises routers instead of computers (Help Net Security)
2016-12-16 13:15

The DNSChanger exploit kit is back and more effective than ever, and is being used in a widespread malvertising attack whose goal is to compromise small/home office routers. According to...

AirDroid app opens millions of Android users to device compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 15:28

Tens of millions of users of AirDroid, a remote management tool for Android, are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that could lead to data theft and their devices being compromised through...

Week in review: PoisonTap compromises locked computers, how hackers will exploit IoT in 2017 (Help Net Security)
2016-11-20 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, reviews and articles: Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack A group of researchers has come up...

Low-cost PoisonTap tool can compromise locked computers (Help Net Security)
2016-11-17 18:40

A new attack tool devised by security researcher Samy Kamkar will leave you wishing you could take your computer with you everywhere you go. Dubbed PoisonTap, the tool consists of a Raspberry Pi...