ThreatList: 4.1B Records Exposed in Breaches in First Half of 2019

This year is on track to be the worst year on record for data breach activity, according to a recent analysis. Within the first six months of this year, there have been 3,813 incidents publicly reported, according to Risk Based Security’s 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report. That’s up 54...

Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787

Boeing left its software unprotected, and researchers have analyzed it for vulnerabilities: At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings, including the details of multiple serious security flaws in the...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – Karagany Malware

Secureworks recently reported in regards to an update of Karagany malware last month. The malware is used by the IRON LIBERTY threat group also known as DragonFly2.0 and Energetic Bear, targeting energy companies and organizations. Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU provides the product rules ...

Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware...

Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking

Eavesdropping, reprogramming, talking to strangers: Welcome to the harmless and not-so-harmless fun of hacking elevator call boxes...

DEF CON 2019: Researchers Demo Hacking Google Home for RCE

LAS VEGAS – The Tencent Blade Team of researchers demonstrated several ways they have developed to hack and run remote code on Google Home smart speakers. The hacks center around what is known as a Magellan vulnerability, which can be used to exploit the massively popular SQLite database engine...

PTP at DEF CON 27

Here's the lowdown on our 14 DEF CON 27 talks, workshops, and panel sessions: Main Stage Track 3 Paris: Saturday 13:00 Chris Wade presents Tag-side attacks against NFC Track 2 Paris: Saturday 15:00 G Richter presents Reverse-Engineering 4g Hotspots for Fun, Bugs and Net Financial Loss Villages...

Internet connected cars can be hacked to gridlock major cities

By Sudais Hacking Internet Connected Cars - a near possibility for cybercriminals to cause major havoc. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Internet connected cars can be hacked to gridlock major cities...

Black Hat USA 2019 Preview

Las Vegas – Despite bizarre reports of a grasshopper infestation, Black Hat USA 2019 and DEF CON are set to kick off next week in Las Vegas, bringing on a wave of sessions, keynotes and security-themed villages. The Threatpost team, which will be on the frontlines of next week’s shows, discuss wh...

DHS Warns Small Airplanes Vulnerable to Flight Data Manipulation Attacks

What could be more horrifying than knowing that a hacker can trick the plane's electronic systems into displaying false flight data to the pilot, which could eventually result in loss of control? Of course, the attacker would never wish to be on the same flight, so in this article, we are going t...

WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Won't Go to Jail for Old Hacking Crimes

Russian election hacks, Amazon's police partnerships, and more security news this week...

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Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch — 2019 Training Bundle

The world of cybersecurity is fast-paced and ever-changing. New attacks are unleashed every day, and companies around the world lose millions of dollars as a result. The only thing standing in the way of cybercrime is a small army of ethical hackers. These cybersecurity experts are employed to fi...

Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch — 2019 Training Bundle

The world of cybersecurity is fast-paced and ever-changing. New attacks are unleashed every day, and companies around the world lose millions of dollars as a result. The only thing standing in the way of cybercrime is a small army of ethical hackers. These cybersecurity experts are employed to fi...

Hackers steal 7.5TB of data from Russian Intel Agency FSB’s contractor

By Uzair Amir The hackers stole the data and shared it with another hacking group who was involved in the hacking of another FSB contractor. On Saturday, 13 July 2019, a group of hackers going by the online handle of 0v1ru$ hacked and defaced the official website of SyTech, a high-profile...

Heather Mills Gets An Apology and 'Substantial' Settlement in Spyware Case

The 2010-2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal – in which it was revealed that the tabloid dropped malware on celebrity targets’ phones in order to gather dirt for news stories – is still playing out in court. The latest is a settlement for a “substantial” sum paid to Heather Mills and her...

Hacked Hair Straighteners Can Threaten Homes

Researchers have found a way to successfully hack connected hair straighteners to turn them on and increase the heating element up to its maximum temperature—causing a serious fire hazard for unsuspecting owners. Pen Test Partners decided to put the Glamoriser hair straightener through its securi...

Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks

Reuters has a long article on the Chinese government APT attack called Cloud Hopper. It was much bigger than originally reported. The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud...

A week in security (June 24 – 30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we peeled back the mystery on an elusive malware campaign that relied on blank JavaScript injections, detailed for readers our latest telemetry on the tricky GreenFlash Sundown exploit, and looked at one of the top campaigns directing traffic toward scareware pages...

BackBox Linux 6.0 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox Linux is a penetration testing and security assessment oriented Linux distribution providing a network and systems analysis toolkit. It includes some of the most commonly known/used security and analysis tools, aiming for a wide spread of goals, ranging from web application analysis to...