Security News

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...

Hacking Fingerprint Readers with Master Prints (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-24 11:44

There's interesting research on using a set of "master" digital fingerprints to fool biometric readers. The work is theoretical at the moment, but they might be able to open about two-thirds of...

Hacking Group Arrested For Infecting Over 1 Million Phones With Banking Trojan (The Hackers News)
2017-05-23 15:33

The Russian Interior Ministry announced on Monday the arrest of 20 individuals from a major cybercriminal gang that had stolen nearly $900,000 from bank accounts after infecting over one million...