Security News

Satellite phone communications can be decrypted in near real-time (Help Net Security)
2017-07-07 16:35

Satellite phone communications encrypted with the GMR-2 cipher can be decrypted in mere fractions of a second, two Chinese researchers have proved. The vulnerable cipher The GMR-2 is a stream...

25-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to Hacking U.S. Military Satellite Phone System (The Hackers News)
2017-06-16 01:43

A British computer hacker who allegedly hacked a United States Department of Defense satellite system in 2014 and accessed the personal information of hundreds of military personnel has pleaded...

All Android Phones Vulnerable to Extremely Dangerous Full Device Takeover Attack (The Hackers News)
2017-05-25 09:52

Researchers have discovered a new attack, dubbed 'Cloak and Dagger', that works against all versions of Android, up to version 7.1.2. Cloak and Dagger attack allows hackers to silently take full...

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...

Dutch Police Seize Another Company that Sells PGP-Encrypted Blackberry Phones (The Hackers News)
2017-05-11 02:31

The Dutch police arrested four suspects on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals. The Dutch National...