FBI Warning Of Car Hacks A Good Start, Say Security Experts

Security researchers are applauding the FBI and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for warning the auto industry that cars and trucks are vulnerable to internet-based attacks. But, they argue, more needs to be done by the government and car makers to protect drivers. Last week, in...

Safari, Flash Fall at Pwn2Own 2016 Day One

Apple Safari and Adobe Flash have proved to be Pwn2Own 2016’s biggest punching bags so far—hackers took down both, earning $282,500 in prizes at the first day of the annual hacking challenge in Vancouver on Wednesday. There were four successful attempts, one partial, and one failed attempt at the...

Chris Valasek Talks Car Hacking, IoT, at RSA

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Valasek, Security Lead, Uber ATC, about the talk he and Charlie Miller gave at RSA, hacking cars, the challenges around getting manufacturers to patch vulnerabilities in vehicles, IoT, and more...

Patrick Wardle on OS X Malware With a Potential Hacking Team Connection

Threatpost Editor Mike Mimoso talks to Synack director of research and well-known OS X hacker Patrick Wardle about the discovery of an OS X malware dropper that likely was developed by the Hacking Team...

'Guccifer,' who Hacked former President, to be extradited to the US

Upon the request of US authorities, Marcel Lazar Lehel, well known as Guccifer, has finally been approved to extradite to the United States to face Computer Intrusion and Identity Theft Charges for 18 months. Guccifer is an infamous Romanian hacker who was arrested in Romania for hacking into the...

Proofpoint Warns Of New MSIL/Crimson Tied To Cyber Espionage

Diplomats and military personnel in India have been victimized in targeted espionage attacks that use a number of means of infection including phishing and watering hole sites. Researchers at Proofpoint this week published a report on Operation Transparent Tribe, which was ongoing as of Feb. 11...

Recapping RSA 2016, FBI vs. Apple, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA 2016, including how pervasive the FBI vs. Apple debate has been around the conference, OpenSSL two years after Heartbleed, and why hacking back is always a bad idea. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch42016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

With the Edge of the user's attention! WinRT PDF the presence of vulnerabilities or hacking-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Use the Edge browser users to pay attention to the browser before the date is considered to exist a certain security risk, may be exploited by hackers jeopardize computer security. IBM X-Force Advanced research team of security experts Mark Vincent Yason said, Win10 in the WinRT PDF the presence...

Angler Exploit Kit Attacks Silverlight Vulnerability

Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcher Kafeine said he was able to get independent confirmation from researchers at Kaspersky Lab that the exploit...

Dewan Chowdhury on Hacking Power Grids

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Dewan Chowdhury, the founder and CEO of MalCrawler, about hacking power grids and a honeypot they built to mimic an energy management system...

NSA Data Center Experiencing 300 Million Hacking Attempts Per Day

Utah State computer systems are experiencing a massive cyber attack on up to 300 Million Hacking attempts per day due to National Security Agency’s NSA data center in the state. Yes, 300,000,000 hacking attempts in a day! According to the statistical survey, it is evident that the computer system...

15-year-old Teenage Hacker Arrested Over FBI Computer Hack

Another 15-year-old teenager got arrested from the land of cakes, Scotland, by British Police for breaking into the FBI Systems on 16th February. Under the Britain’s anti-hacking law, Computer Misuse Act 1990, the boy has been arrested for his role in hacking and unauthorized access to the digita...

British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ is LEGAL, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT ruled. So, the UK is giving clean chit to its intelligence agency to spy on its people as well as people living...

Here's the Facebook Hacking Tool that Can Really Hack Accounts, But...

Yes, you heard me right. A newly discovered Facebook hacking tool actually has the capability to hack Facebook account, but YOURS, and not the one you desire to hack. How to Hack Facebook account? How to Hack my Girlfriends Facebook account? My boyfriend is cheating on me, How do I hack his...

Russian Hackers Manipulate Ruble-Dollar Exchange Rate with Malware

Russian Group of Hackers reportedly cracked into the Kazan-based Energobank and messed up with the Ruble-Dollar exchange rates. In Feb 2015, a hacking group, known by the name METEL, successfully breached into the Russian Regional Bank for just 14 minutes and caused the exchange rate to fluctuate...

2 0 1 5 Microsoft Windows vulnerability report-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! This article is mainly for 2 0 1 5 year Microsoft, Google, etc. the company corresponding products of the newsecuritymechanism or security feature for analysis. In fact the previous year, namely 2 0 1 4 year of report Windows exploitation in 2 0 1 4, We also mentioned a current network attack t...

VirusTotal Firmware Malware Implant Scanning

Successful attacks against firmware are rare but provide hackers with one thing they covet most: persistence. Advanced attack groups have already accelerated their capabilities in finding ways to burrow into the BIOS and EFI as noted by the Snowden leaks’ description of the NSA’s attempts to...

Kaspersky Lab found that the Silverlight zero-day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, Kaspersky Lab found in the Silverlight application in the presence of a dangerous zero-day vulnerabilities, millions of users pose a security risk. On Wednesday, in a blog post, the network security company Kaspersky said the vulnerability would allow an attacker to gain access to the...

US Intelligence Chief Hacked by the Teen Who Hacked CIA Director

Nation's Top Spy Chief Got Hacked! The same teenage hacker who broke into the AOL email inbox of CIA Director John Brennan last October has now claimed to have broken into personal email and phone accounts of the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper was targeted by the...

Simple Yet Effective eBay Bug Allows Hackers to Steal Passwords

A simple, yet effective flaw discovered on eBay's website exposed hundreds of millions of its customers to an advance Phishing Attack. An Independent Security Researcher reported a critical vulnerability to eBay last month that had the capability to allow hackers to host a fake login page, i.e...