Security News

Black Hat 2018: Voice Authentication is Broken, Researchers Say
2018-08-10 14:58

Researchers crack voice authentication systems by recreating any voice using under ten minutes of sample audio.

Crowdfense platform to allow researchers to safely submit, discuss and sell 0day exploits
2018-08-10 07:44

Crowdfense announced the launch of their Vulnerability Research Platform (VRP). This web-based collaboration platform allows vulnerability researchers to safely submit, discuss and quickly sell...

Researchers Say Code Reuse Links North Korea's Malware
2018-08-09 19:34

Following trails of reused code, security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have uncovered new links between malware families attributed to North Korean threat groups and tracked most of the...

Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware
2018-08-09 14:33

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization. However, the same...

Researchers Find Flaws in WPA2's 4-way Handshake Implementations
2018-08-09 14:13

Researchers have discovered several security vulnerabilities in implementations of Wi-Fi Protected Access two (WPA2)’s 4-way handshake, which is used by nearly all protected Wi-Fi networks. read more

Bugcrowd University to provide hands-on training for security researchers
2018-08-09 08:47

Bugcrowd announced the launch of Bugcrowd University to educate and empower the crowd with the latest skills and methodologies. The first advanced program of its kind, Bugcrowd University provides...

Researchers Find Flaw in WhatsApp
2018-08-08 13:40

Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm CheckPoint said Wednesday they had found a flaw in WhatsApp that could allow hackers to modify and send fake messages in the popular social messaging app....

Bank on it: It's either legal to port-scan someone without consent or it's not, fumes researcher
2018-08-07 11:27

Halifax issue could clarify one rule for banks, another for us, says white hat Halifax Bank scans the machines of surfers that land on its login page whether or not they are customers, it has emerged.…

Researchers to release open source tools to identify Twitter bots at scale
2018-08-06 19:48

Duo Security published technical research and methodology detailing how to identify automated Twitter accounts, known as bots, at a mass scale. Using machine learning algorithms to identify bot...

Mozilla to Researchers: Stay Away From User Data and We Won’t Sue
2018-08-06 16:52

Security researchers looking to find bugs in Firefox should not worry about Mozilla suing them, the Internet organization says. That is, of course, as long as they don’t mess with user data. read more