Security News

No ‘Silver Bullet’ Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks
2019-10-22 17:13

Karsten Nohl, who was behind this week's research that outlined new eavesdropping hacks for Alexa and Google Home, says that privacy for smart home assistants still has a ways to go.

Public, Election Officials May Be Kept in the Dark on Hacks
2019-10-21 10:34

If the FBI discovers that foreign hackers have infiltrated the networks of your county election office, you may not find out about it until after voting is over. And your governor and other state...

Review: The Great Hack
2019-10-18 04:00

Data is the most valuable asset/resource on Earth. Still, we have little or no control over who is exploiting ours without our consent. That is what the authors, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer,...

Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site
2019-10-17 10:06

They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can't be abused.

Hollywood hack job: How cybersecurity consultant for hit TV show "Mr. Robot" brought authenticity to actor Rami Malek's character
2019-10-15 15:52

James Plouffe, cybersecurity consultant for "Mr. Robot" reveals how he helped make hacking a reality on the USA-Network drama series starring Rami Malek and Christian Slater.

“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards
2019-10-15 11:05

"BriansClub," a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly's likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub...

Soldering spy chips inside firewalls is now a cheap hack, shows researcher
2019-10-14 12:01

The tiny ATtiny85 chip doesn’t look like the next big cyberthreat facing the world, but sneaking one on to a firewall motherboard would be bad news for security were it to happen.

If you have a security alert I feel bad for you son, you got 99 problems but a hack ain't one
2019-10-08 19:55

Nearly all admin warnings are false alarms, says Kaspersky, and that's not a bad thing Just one per cent of all Indicator of Attack (IOA) warnings are actually caused by network attacks.…

Iran tried to hack hundreds of politicians, journalists email accounts last month, warns Microsoft
2019-10-04 18:33

No confirmation from Trump yet whether he asked them to do it The Iranian government has attempted to hack into hundreds of Office 365 email accounts belonging to politicians, government officials...

Hack Breaks PDF Encryption, Opens Content to Attackers
2019-10-02 10:21

PDFex can bypass encryption and password protection in most PDF readers and online validation services