Security News

Researchers may have found a way to trace serial IP hijackers
2019-10-14 05:00

Hijacking IP addresses is an increasingly popular form of cyberattack. This is done for a range of reasons, from sending spam and malware to stealing Bitcoin. It’s estimated that in 2017 alone,...

How MIT researchers use machine learning to detect IP hijackings before it occurs
2019-10-08 16:25

The goal is to predict incidents in advance by tracing it back to the actual hijackers.

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...