Beware! Fireball Malware Infects Nearly 250 Million Computers Worldwide

Security researchers have discovered a massive malware campaign that has already infected more than 250 million computers across the world, including Windows and Mac OS. Dubbed Fireball, the malware is an adware package that takes complete control of victim's web browsers and turns them into...

Post-Quantum RSA

Interesting research on a version of RSA that is secure against a quantum computer: Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou, and Luke Valenta Abstract: This paper proposes RSA parameters for which 1 key generation, encryption, decryption, signing, and verification are...

Inmates Secretly Build and Network Computers while in Prison

This is kind of amazing: Inmates at a medium-security Ohio prison secretly assembled two functioning computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the Marion Correctional Institution's network. The hard drives were loaded with pornography, a Windows proxy server, VPN, VOIP and...

clickbank.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.clickbank.com/product-category/computers-internet/?viewport=%22%3E%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/;%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed...

Wanna Cry Again? NSA’s Windows 'EsteemAudit' RDP Exploit Remains Unpatched

Brace yourselves for a possible 'second wave' of massive global cyber attack, as SMB Server Message Block was not the only network protocol whose zero-day exploits created by NSA were exposed in the Shadow Brokers dump last month. Although Microsoft released patches for SMB flaws for supported...

Keylogger Found in HP Laptop Audio Drivers

This is a weird story: researchers have discovered that an audio driver installed in some HP laptops includes a keylogger, which records all keystrokes to a local file. There seems to be nothing malicious about this, but it's a vivid illustration of how hard it is to secure a modern computer. The...

WannaCry Ransomware That's Hitting World Right Now Uses NSA Windows Exploit

Update — After reading this article, if you want to know, what has happened so far in past 4 days and how to protect your computers from WannaCry, read our latest article "WannaCry Ransomware: Everything You Need To Know Immediately." Earlier today, a massive ransomware campaign hit computer...

Police Arrest Man Potentially Linked to Group Threatening to Wipe Millions Of iPhones

The British authority has reportedly arrested a 20-years-old young man – potentially one of the member of a cyber criminal gang 'Turkish Crime Family' who threatened Apple last week to remotely wipe data from millions of iOS devices unless Apple pays a ransom of $75,000. The UK's National Crime...

Apple iOS/Mac Information Disclosure Vulnerability

iOS is an operating system developed by Apple for mobile devices, and supported devices include iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV. Information leakage vulnerability exists in several Apple products, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

IRS Releases Tax-Time Guide

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released tax-time advice intended to help the public protect their personal and financial data and computers. Recommendations include using strong passwords, backing up files, and using robust security software to help block malware and viruses. Users and...

ngrcomputers.co.za XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/import.php?query=k400%27"--!confirmOPENBUGBOUNTY%3C/script /K/=0 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 331095 VIP website...

Raspberry Pi launches PIXEL OS for Mac and PCs

Here's the Raspberry Pi's Christmas treat for tech community! The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an experimental version of its lightweight Linux-based Debian operating system called PIXEL OS that can run on most standard desktop computers ships with Windows and Mac OS X without the need of...

NIST Calls Development of Quantum-Proof Encryption Algorithms

Quantum Computers – Boon or Bane? Quantum computers can perform operations much more quickly and efficiently even with the use of less energy than conventional computers, but that's bad news for encryption — a process which scrambles data according to a massively complex mathematical code. In...

Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining tool turns Computers into Zcash Mining Machines

Since its launch over a month ago, new virtual currency Zcash ZEC has become a significant way for cybercrooks to make money by infecting computers with software mining program. Launched in late October, Zcash ZEC is a new cryptocurrency currency that claims to be more anonymous than Bitcoin, as...

Security researchers found that attack kits favorite Flash Player security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

By RecordedFuture a new study suggests that, due to its vulnerability, Flash Player will continue to the global computer at risk, cybercriminals are still looking for the Adobe solutions among the security flaws to the invasion of the computer. This year the exploit kit used by the top 10...

FBI Hacked into 8,000 Computers in 120 Countries Using A Single Warrant

The FBI hacked into more than 8,000 computers in 120 different countries with just a single warrant during an investigation into a dark web child pornography website, according to a newly published court filings. This FBI's mass hacking campaign is related to the high-profile child pornography...

High Precision WiFi Indoor Positioning Framework: FIND

High Precision WiFi Indoor Positioning Framework The Framework for Internal Navigation and Discovery FIND allows you to use your Android smartphone or WiFi-enabled computer laptop or Raspberry Pi or etc. to determine your position within your home or office. You can easily use this system in plac...

This Malware Can Transfer Data via USB Emissions from Air-Gapped Computers

Air-gapped computers that are isolated from the Internet or other networks and believed to be the most secure computers on the planet have become a regular target in recent years. A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Israel has discovered a way to extract sensitive information from...

How to Leak Data From Air Gapped Computers With USB Devices

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of Negev have found a way to take a run-of-the-mill USB device and use it to leak data from an air-gapped computers via RF signals. Academics with the school’s Cyber Security Research Labs division claim they’ve come up with software, dubbed USBee, that can...

Academics Devise New Way to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers

Stealing data from air-gapped computers is one of the great exercises in computer security: advanced attackers covet what’s stored on these isolated machines, while researchers try to figure out the novel ways adversaries could jump those gaps. The latest effort doesn’t involve USBs, heat,...