Security News

Facing limits of remote hacking, Army cybers up the battlefield (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-13 10:45

Army prepares for a less friendly electronic battlespace, embeds cyber in units.

Al-Jazeera reportedly hit by systematic hacking attempts (Help Net Security)
2017-06-09 16:07

Al-Jazeera, the Doha-based broadcaster owned by the ruling family of Qatar, says the websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network, its parent company, “are undergoing systematic and...

Hard-coded Passwords Make Hacking Foscam ‘IP Cameras’ Much Easier (The Hackers News)
2017-06-08 00:54

Security researchers have discovered over a dozen of vulnerabilities in tens of thousands of web-connected cameras that can not be protected just by changing their default credentials....

Leaked Documents Show US Vote Hacking Risks (Security Week)
2017-06-06 20:01

Security experts have warned for years that hackers could penetrate electronic voting systems, and now, leaked national security documents suggest a concerted effort to do just that in the 2016 US...

Russian Outsourcing Provides Plausible Deniability for State-Sponsored Hacking (Security Week)
2017-06-06 12:07

Last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently conceded that patriotic Russian hackers may have been involved in the DNC hacks last year. "If they are patriotically minded, they start...

NSA Contractor Charged With Leaking Russia Hacking Report (Security Week)
2017-06-06 07:49

A federal contractor has been charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday. read more

FBI Helping Qatar in 'Hacking' Probe: Source (Security Week)
2017-06-05 01:42

The FBI is helping Qatar investigate the source of an alleged "hack" of state media which sparked diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, a source with knowledge of the probe said Friday. read more

CIA Implants This Windows Hacking Tool to Silently Hack Computers Over Network (The Hackers News)
2017-06-02 01:06

WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing an alleged CIA project that allowed the agency to turn Windows file servers into covert attack machines that...

Week in review: Hacking through subtitles, new class of attacks against Android (Help Net Security)
2017-05-29 02:23

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: How to build a better SOC team There’s no scarcity of discussion around the reasons for the infosec skills shortage or...

Hacking the Galaxy S8's Iris Biometric (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-26 17:50

It was easy: The hackers took a medium range photo of their subject with a digital camera's night mode, and printed the infrared image. Then, presumably to give the image some depth, the hackers...