Security News

Hackers Sell Celebrity Info Obtained in Instagram Hack (Security Week)
2017-09-05 12:29

Hackers claim to have obtained the personal details of millions of Instagram users, including celebrities, after exploiting a vulnerability in the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service. read more

AngelFire: CIA Malware Infects System Boot Sector to Hack Windows PCs (The Hackers News)
2017-08-31 05:33

A team of hackers at the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, allegedly used a Windows hacking tool against its targets to gain persistent remote access. As part of its Vault 7 leaks, WikiLeaks...

A repair shop could completely hack your phone—and you wouldn’t know it (ArsTechnica)
2017-08-18 12:27

Booby-trapped touchscreens can log passwords, install malicious apps, and more.

Fresh Vehicle Hack Disables Airbags, Anti-lock Brakes (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-17 13:48

Findings Mean the CAN Bus Protocol Needs a RewriteThe 30-year-old protocol used by motor vehicle sensors to communicate may have to be rewritten following a proof-of-concept "error flooding"...

Fresh Vehicle Hack Disables Airbags, Antilock Brakes (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-17 10:48

Findings Mean the CAN Bus Protocol Needs a RewriteThe 30-year-old protocol used by motor vehicle sensors to communicate may have to be rewritten following a proof-of-concept "error flooding"...

Unnamed Firm Offers $250,000 for VM Hacks (Security Week)
2017-08-10 14:31

An unnamed company is prepared to offer up to $250,000 for virtual machine (VM) hacks as part of a “secret” bug bounty program, crowdsourced security testing platform Bugcrowd announced this week....

Malware Encoded Into DNA Hacks the Computer that Reads It (The Hackers News)
2017-08-10 01:01

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years? Even in March this year, a team of researchers successfully stored digital data — an entire operating system,...

Dash invites researchers to hack their blockchain (Help Net Security)
2017-08-07 12:00

Thousands of security researchers will be incentivized to identify critical software vulnerabilities within Dash’s code and present them to the Dash Core Team for remediation. Commencing in...

'Game of Thrones' Script Leaked After HBO Hack (Security Week)
2017-07-31 19:53

HBO said Monday its network was victimized by a cyberattack, and media reports said the hack resulted in the leak of a script of the popular series "Games of Thrones" and content from other...

Researchers remotely hack Tesla Model X (Help Net Security)
2017-07-31 16:39

Security researchers from Tencent’s Keen Security Lab have done it again: they’ve found vulnerabilities in one of Tesla’s cars and demonstrated that they can be exploited remotely to do things...