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The curious case of a WordPress plugin, a rival site spammed with traffic, a war of words, and legal threats
2019-04-02 07:04

Devs strip code from toolkit amid blogger dramarama A British web-dev outfit has denied allegations it deliberately hid code inside its WordPress plugins that, among other things, spammed a...

What was that P word? Ah. Privacy. Yes, we'll think about privacy, says FCC mulling cellphone location data overhaul
2019-03-15 20:57

Commissioners still doing their best to ignore bounty hunter stalking scandal Analysis America's comms regulator has finally pinky-promised to at least consider people's privacy when it looks into...

You. Shall. Not. Pass... word: Soon, you may be logging into websites using your phone, face, fingerprint or token
2019-03-05 21:37

Just don't lose your hardware keys RSA At 2004's RSA Conference, then Microsoft chairman Bill Gates predicted the death of the password because passwords have problems and people are bad at...

GandCrab ransomware and Ursnif virus spreading via MS Word macros
2019-01-25 11:33

Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and the GandCrab ransomware in the wild, whereas the second one is...

A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads
2019-01-24 23:56

Apple fans lured into installing malware via crafty JavaScript A strain of malware has been clocked using steganography to run malicious JavaScript on Macs via images in online banner ads, it was...

Stalk my pals on social media and you'll know that the next words out of my mouth will be banana hammock
2019-01-22 14:30

Boffins reckon they can predict what you'll say based on your friends' activity online The phenomenon of "prescient Facebook advertising", so beloved of conspiracy theorists who think social...

Fancy Bear hacker crew Putin dirty RATs in Word documents emailed to govt orgs – report
2018-11-21 11:55

Disguised as files about recent Lion Air crash, no less Russian state-backed hacking crew Fancy Bear (aka APT28) is distributing malware-riddled files with a suggested link to the recent Lion Air...

3 New Code Execution Flaws Discovered in Atlantis Word Processor
2018-11-20 16:33

This is why you should always think twice before opening innocent looking email attachments, especially word and pdf files. Cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos have once again discovered...

Unpatched MS Word Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Infect Your Computer
2018-10-30 10:18

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed an unpatched logical flaw in Microsoft Office 2016 and older versions that could allow an attacker to embed malicious code inside a document file, tricking...

Word documents seemingly carrying videos can deliver malicious code instead
2018-10-29 16:45

A feature that allows anyone to embed a video directly in a Word document can be easily misused to trick target users into downloading and running malware, Cymulate researchers have demonstrated....