Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say...

Amazon Kindle Vulnerable to Malicious EBooks

A security flaw in Amazon’s Kindle e-reader made it vulnerable to malicious eBooks, opening the door to turning the devices into bots, compromising personal information and more. That’s according to Check Point researcher Slava Makkaeveev, who released the findings Friday. Check Point disclosed t...

World Of Warcraft recruitment: a command line can hijack your game with the hijacking code and video-bug warning-the black bar safety net

! Recently there has been a relates to the social worker, the technology, the new game attack of the Scam, the attacker uses the world of Warcraft World of Warcraft, WoW game plug-in a hidden function. New attacks Imagine this Scene: the game one looks like a well-known Guild members of a role,...

Home Depot Hacked!

Looks like The Home Depot needs to turn their own ‘Doing Dials’ up a notch: the website of the home improvement retailer was compromised by a piece of hidden code that redirected browsers to a site infected with malware. By running the Google search for “home depot stair spindles,” Mark Baldwin o...

Java WebStart allows hidden code privilege escalation

Java Web Start JWS and Java Plug-in with Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.4.218 and earlier allows remote attackers to make unauthorized network connections and hijack HTTP sessions via a crafted file that validates as both a GIF an...