Intel Confirms Its Much-Loathed ME Feature Has A Kill Switch

Researchers at Positive Technologies forced Intel’s hand at revealing that a previously undocumented kill switch exists for its oft-criticized Intel Management Engine, a remote management component of Intel CPUs. Initially, Positive Technologies set out to disable the feature that some security...

Hidden Kill Switch Identified in Controversial Intel ME controller chip

By Uzair Amir Europe’s leading cyber-security firm Positive Technologies’ security researchers have a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hidden Kill Switch Identified in Controversial Intel ME controller chip...

Private Internet Access – Get a Secure VPN to Protect Your Online Privacy

Since most of us rely upon the Internet for day-to-day activities today, hacking and spying have become a prime concern, and so have online security and privacy. The Internet has become a digital universe with websites collecting your sensitive information and selling them to advertisers, hackers...

FBI Arrests Researcher Who Found 'Kill-Switch' to Stop Wannacry Ransomware

The 22-year-old British security researcher who gained fame for discovering the "kill switch" that stopped the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware—has been reportedly arrested in the United States after attending the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas. Marcus Hutchins, operates under the ali...

Petya Is Not Ransomware, It's a 'Wiper'

The outbreak of the ExPetr malware isn’t a ransomware attack, but more precisely, it’s a wiper attack that sabotaged PCs globally, overwriting their Master Boot Record forever. That’s the analysis of security experts from Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies who shared their latest research on th...

The Latest on WannaCry, UIWIX, EternalRocks and ShadowBrokers

Ransomware has gained global attention over the course of the last two weeks due to the huge spread of WannaCry. Following the initial attacks, we’ve seen UIWIX, Adylkuzz and now EternalRocks come onto the scene leveraging the same core set of vulnerabilities. The common thread between the three...

Digging Into WannaCry Details: Answers to Your Burning Questions

Jimmy Graham, Director of Product Management, Qualys Threat Protection & AssetView The WannaCry ransomware attack spread so quickly and has been so disruptive that IT departments can’t get enough information about what caused it, how it can be remediated and what can be done to protect their...

Using Threat Intelligence to Mitigate Wanna Decryptor (WannaCry)

Basics of Cyber Threat Intelligence Cyber Threat Intelligence is analyzed information about the opportunities, capabilities, and intent of cyber adversaries. The goal of cyber threat intelligence is to help people make decisions about how to prevent, detect, and respond to threats against their...

WannaCry: What We Know

On Friday, May 12, news agencies around the world reported that a new ransomware threat was spreading rapidly. Akamai's incident response teams and researchers worked quickly to understand this new threat and how to mitigate it. This blog post is a summary of what Akamai knows at this point...

Slack Discloses Breach of its User Profile Database

Enterprise and small business collaboration provider Slack today disclosed that a database storing user profile information has been compromised. The company said in a notice posted on its site that the unauthorized access has been blocked, and that it has implemented two-factor authentication...

7 Things About Android Lollipop 5.0 You Need To Know

After offering chocolate Kit-Kat, now Google is ready to serve you Lollipops. Google on Wednesday finally revealed the official name of its next version Android L — Android 5.0 Lollipop. The newly released Android 5.0 Lollipop ships with the latest Motorola-made Nexus 6 smartphone and Nexus 9...

Intel Developing RFID Tracking and Remote Controlled 'Kill Switch' for Laptops

Kill Switch - the ability to render devices non-operational to prevent theft - has become a hot topic nowadays. The ability to remotely destroy data of the device lost or stolen has been available for quite some time now, but Kill switch not only remotely destroy the devices’ data but also the...

Google, Microsoft to Implement Mobile 'Kill Switch'

Google and Microsoft will incorporate remote kill switch features into the default builds of their respective mobile operating systems for the first time. Oddly enough, the announcement comes in a joint press release issued by New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, and San Francisco Distri...

NASDAQ Patches Reported XSS Vulnerability

A NASDAQ representative confirmed this morning that a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the exchange’s website discovered by an ethical hacker has been patched. The issue was reported on Sept. 2 by Ilia Kolochenko, chief executive of High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss penetration testing company...

Syria suffers nationwide communications outage

The Syrian situation is getting worse day by day, the regime is attacking dissident mercilessly meanwhile the world wide community is standing by and watch helplessly stopped by prohibition of military intervention imposed by Russia and China, historical allies of Damascus. Syria regime is fierce...

Amid Protests, Egypt Severs Ties to Internet

Amidst growing popular protests, Egypt has been severed from the Internet, according to reports from Intenet monitors and reporters within the country. The Associated Press and Reuters both confirmed reports of widespread outtages within Egypt affecting customers of all of the country’s main ISPs...

New Intel Chips Support SMS Kill Switch

HED: New Intel Chips Support SMS Kill Switch DEK: Anti Theft 3 Chips Can be disabled via 3G Networks New computer processors from Intel Corp, due out in 2011, can be disabled using an SMS “poison pill” message sent over any 3G cellular network, according to Intel documentation. The new anti-theft...

Alex Howard on Compliance, Breach Notification and the Rockefeller Bill

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Howard, associate editor of Searchcompliance.com, about the burden compliance places on security staffs, the growing tide of breach notification laws and the misunderstandings surrounding the Rockefeller bill and the Internet kill switch. Download Subscribe to the...

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