Security News

Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
2019-10-07 10:36

Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage.

Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Squirts Researcher
2019-10-04 21:23

Cute video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....

Researcher Shows How Adversaries Can Gather Intel on U.S. Critical Infrastructure
2019-10-03 15:46

A researcher has used a free tool that he created and open source intelligence (OSINT) to demonstrate how easy it is for adversaries to gather intelligence on critical infrastructure in the United...

Researchers Find New Hack to Read Content Of Password Protected PDF Files
2019-10-01 17:49

Looking for ways to unlock and read the content of an encrypted PDF without knowing the password? Well, that's now possible, sort of—thanks to a novel set of attacking techniques that could allow...

Researchers Disclose Another SIM Card Attack Possibly Impacting Millions
2019-09-27 11:33

A new variant of a recently disclosed SIM card attack method could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking, researchers have warned. read more

Researchers analyzed 16.4 billion requests to see how bots affect e-commerce
2019-09-20 04:30

The sophistication level of bots attacking e-commerce sites is on the rise, with nearly four-fifths (79.2 percent) classified as moderate or sophisticated, up from 75.8 percent in 2018, according...

Researchers find 737 million medical images exposed on the internet
2019-09-19 12:45

Of the 2,300 archiving systems looked at, 590 were accessible from the internet, exposing 24 million medical records from 52 countries.

Warning: Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions
2019-09-18 09:33

A cybersecurity researcher recently published details and proof-of-concept for an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL and...

Researchers: Emotet Botnet Is Active Again
2019-09-17 21:33

New Surge in Activity Spotted After Four-Month AbsenceEmotet, one of the most powerful malware-spreading botnets, is active again after a four-month absence, according to several security...

Researchers uncover 125 vulnerabilities across 13 routers and NAS devices
2019-09-17 03:45

In a cybersecurity study of network attached storage (NAS) systems and routers, Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) found 125 vulnerabilities in 13 IoT devices, reaffirming an industrywide...