Dutch Police Seize Two VPN Servers, But Without Explaining... Why?

Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to built encryption backdoors in their secure messaging services. However, another neighborhood country, Netherlands, is proactively taking down cyber...

Hackers still use the old Office vulnerability for cyber-attacks-vulnerabilities-warning-the black bar safety net

! Recently, the Microsoft company said hackers in many network attacks, is still in use with one to 4 years ago, found that the Office software vulnerabilities. Hackers exploit Office software in the presence of this vulnerability, the use of the production of a good document to spread malware...

Most Post-Intrusion Cyber Attacks Involve Everyday Admin Tools

Think hackers use advanced malware and mysterious tools once they have infiltrated a network? According to security startup LightCyber, most attackers use the same mainstream security tools the good guys use, only for lateral movement, network mapping and remote control of endpoints. Of course,...

Trains, Planes, Autos Increasingly in Cybercriminal's Bullseye

The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals who see the sprawling multi-billion dollar industry as ripe for financially motivated attacks. According to IBM’s X-Force security team, the systems behind planes, trains and automobiles have now become bigger paydays f...

IoT Botnet — 25,000 CCTV Cameras Hacked to launch DDoS Attack

The Internet of Things IoTs or Internet-connected devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are threats to them. Due to the insecure implementation, these Internet-connected embedded devices, including Smart TVs, Refrigerators, Microwaves, Set-top boxes, Security Cameras and printers, are...

Google Trust API plans to replace your Passwords with Trust Score

The importance of increasing online security around personal information has risen due to the increase in cyber attacks and data breaches over recent years. I find it hilarious people are still choosing terrible passwords to protect their online accounts. The massive LinkedIn hack is the latest i...

British Hacker Wins Legal Battle Over Encryption Keys

In Brief Britain's top crime fighting force has failed in a legal attempt to force alleged hacker Lauri Love to hand over his hard disk's encryption keys. In a landmark case, District Judge Nina Tempia said the investigative agency should have used the normal police powers rather than a civil...

Top 4 Data Breaches reported in last 24 Hours

There is no doubt that data breaches are on the rise. Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. According to the latest ‘Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2016’ report published by UK government, two-thirds of the biggest firm in the UK have experienced at least a cyber...

A Cyber Revolution: Advanced Attacks Increasing in EMEA Reflect Political Tension

Financial, geopolitical and economical changes made 2015 a very busy year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA region, particularly in the cyber realm. FireEye has been monitoring these shifting cyber trends and has identified considerable evolutions to the EMEA threat landscape when...

Unskilled Pro-ISIS Hackers A Growing Threat

Hackers sympathetic to ISIS may lack the funding and talent of government-sponsored hackers, but they merit attention because of their promotion of physical violence and ability to incite others via social media to target individuals or groups. A report today by security company Flashpoint points...

​DARPA Wants To Build Ultra Secure Messaging App for US Military

Just last month, DARPA launched a project dubbed "Improv," inviting hackers to transform simple household appliances into deadly weapons. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is finding someone in the private sector to develop a hacker-proof "secure messaging and transaction platfor...

MIT builds Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85% of Cyber Attacks

In Brief What if we could Predict when a cyber attack is going to occur before it actually happens and prevent it? Isn't it revolutionary idea for Internet Security? Security researchers at MIT have developed a new Artificial Intelligence-based cyber security platform, called 'AI2,' which has the...

The 7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam. On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice DoJ charged seven Iranian hackers with a slew of computer hacking...

MiCollab 7.0 - SQL Injection

MiCollab 7.0 - SQL Injection ================ Exploit Title: SQL Injection Vulnerability in MiCollab v7.0 Date: 3-22-2016 Vendor Homepage: http://www.mitel.com Vendor: Mitel Software: MiCollab End User Portal Version: v7.0 Advisory:...

MiCollab 7.0 - SQL Injection

================ Exploit Title: SQL Injection Vulnerability in MiCollab v7.0 Date: 3-22-2016 Vendor Homepage: http://www.mitel.com Vendor: Mitel Software: MiCollab End User Portal Version: v7.0 Advisory: http://www.mitel.com/security-advisories/mitel-product-security-advisory-16-0001 CVSS: 7.5...

Hospital Security Fail: Report Outlines Dangerous Shortcomings

Hospitals are risking patient lives by failing to protect critical computer systems that can be manipulated by attackers. In a scathing report that looks at the current state of hospital security, researchers say everything from bedside patient monitoring systems, automated drug dispensing machin...

Smod - MODBUS Penetration Testing Framework

smod is a modular framework with every kind of diagnostic and offensive feature you could need in order to pentest modbus protocol. It is a full Modbus protocol implementation using Python and Scapy. This software could be run on Linux/OSX under python 2.7.x. Feel free to make pull requests, if...

You Wouldn't Believe that Too Many People Still Use Terrible Passwords

Some things online can never change like -- Terrible Passwords by Humans. When it's about various security measures to be taken in order to protect your Internet security, like installing a good anti-virus or running Linux on your system doesn’t mean that your work gets over here, and you are saf...

602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of th...

Sandworm Team and the Ukrainian Power Authority Attacks

Update 1.11.16 - SANS ICS Team Connects Dots Updating the blog entry to bring attention to the recent analysis published by Mike Assante from the SANS ICS team. "After analyzing the information that has been made available by affected power companies, researchers, and the media it is clear that...