Mobile Cybersecurity Firm Cirotta Launches Anti-Hacking Phone Cases

By Deeba Ahmed Israeli Mobile Cybersecurity Startup Cirotta has launched smartphone cases that the company claims to provide complete protection while… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mobile Cybersecurity Firm Cirotta Launches Anti-Hacking Phone Cases...

The FBI’s Director Compares Ransomware Threat to 9/11

Plus, a Supreme Court decision on a controversial anti-hacking law, a WhatsApp walk-back, and more of the week’s top security news...

The Legal Risks of Security Research

Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert have published "A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research." From a summary: Such risk extends beyond anti-hacking laws, implicating copyright law and anti-circumvention provisions DMCA §1201, electronic privacy law ECPA, and cryptography export...

CVE-2017-13108

CVE-2017-13108 : DFNDR Security Antivirus, Anti-hacking & Cleaner (Android, version 5.0.9, 2017-11-01) uses a hard-coded encryption key. Data encrypted with this key can be decrypted by anyone who obtains the key, exposing potentially sensitive user data. The connected documents confirm this Andr...

ISIS Calls Anonymous "IDIOTS" and Issues 5 Lame Tips for its Members to Avoid Getting Hacked

The Anonymous Hacking group on Sunday declared Total War against the ISIS, the Islamic State terror organization that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks on Friday that killed 129 people and hundreds more injured. In a sinister video posted on YouTube, the Cyber Hacktivists said they wil...