Security News

British Hacking Suspect Avoids Extradition
2018-02-06 10:33

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in EnglandLauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the...

British Hacking Suspect Avoids Extradiction
2018-02-05 19:33

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in EnglandLauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the...

AutoSploit: Automated Hacking Tool Set to Wreak Havoc or a Tempest in a Teapot?
2018-02-01 16:00

AutoSploit Automatically Finds Vulnerable Targets via Shodan and Uses Metasploit Exploits to Compromise Hosts read more

North Korea-linked Lazarus Hackers Update Arsenal of Hacking Tools
2018-01-25 15:01

Recent cyberattacks associated with the North Korea-linked Lazarus group have used an evolved backdoor, along with a Remote Controller tool, Trend Micro reports.  read more

Week in review: DoS attacks against hard disk, ethical hacking, and the rise of ransom hacks
2018-01-22 03:31

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Norwegian health authority hacked, patient data of nearly 3 million citizens possibly compromised Hackers have...

Researchers Uncover Government-Sponsored Mobile Hacking Group Operating Since 2012
2018-01-19 10:48

A global mobile espionage campaign collecting a trove of sensitive personal information from victims since at least 2012 has accidentally revealed itself—thanks to an exposed server on the open...

Is ethical hacking more lucrative than software engineering?
2018-01-18 13:45

HackerOne published its 2018 Hacker Report, which examines the geography, demographics, experience, tools used and motivations of nearly 2,000 bug bounty hackers across 100 countries. On average,...

Researchers Earn $100,000 for Hacking Pixel Phone
2018-01-18 06:23

A team of researchers has earned more than $100,000 from Google for an Android exploit chain that can be used to hack the company’s Pixel phone remotely simply by getting the targeted user to...

Flaws Allowed Facebook Account Hacking via Oculus App
2018-01-16 13:54

Facebook recently patched a couple of vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by malicious hackers to hijack accounts by abusing integration with the Oculus virtual reality headset. read more

'Hacking Incident' Impacts Nearly 280,000 Medicaid Patients
2018-01-15 20:33

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Sends Notification LettersA health data breach reported to federal regulators as a "hacking/IT incident" impacting nearly 280,000 Medicaid...