Secure (and Simple) SharePoint Remote Access

SharePoint, Microsoft's 16-year-old flagship file storage and collaboration product, is used by over 200 million worldwide users. Likened to a Swiss Army knife, SharePoint performs so many functions that it has become an integral part of most enterprise IT fabrics. Of course, it is not perfect - ...

Google to Block .js Attachments in Gmail

Spammers and cybercriminals have revived email-based attacks in the last year, giving new life to macro-based malware hidden in Word documents, and with greater intensity of late, .js files that run JavaScript on infected clients, largely to download malware from an attacker’s site. Google...

InfraPower PPS-02-S Q213V1 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

InfraPower PPS-02-S Q213V1 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities InfraPower PPS-02-S Q213V1 Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities Vendor: Austin Hughes Electronics Ltd. Product web page: http://www.austin-hughes.com Affected version: Q213V1 Firmware: V2395S Fixed version: Q216V3 Firmware:...

Iran Bans Pokémon GO — It's My Way or the Highway!

Pokémon GO has become the world’s most popular mobile game since its launch in July, but not everyone loves it. Pokémon GO has officially been banned in Iran. The Iranian High Council of Virtual Spaces – the country's official body that oversees online activity – has prohibited the use of the...

Microsoft Quietly Kills Controversial Wi-Fi Sense Feature

From its introduction, Microsoft’s Windows 10 feature Wi-Fi Sense has faced a massive amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Now those losing sleep over the feature can get some rest; Microsoft quietly announced last week it’s snuffing out the feature. Later this summer, when Microsoft rolls out ...

لاسلكي الشرطة - Dynamic Code Loading, External URLs, Suspicious files vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application لاسلكي الشرطة published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Connected Cars' Cybersecurity Falls Short

As automakers rush to market connected cars to feed drivers hungry for collision avoidance systems and self-parking features, security experts are urging the industry to pump its brakes and prioritize the their cars’ cyber defenses. In a report released Tuesday by IDC and the security firm...

Comodo's so-called 'Secure Internet Browser' Comes with Disabled Security Features

Beware Comodo Users! Have you Safeguarded your PC with a Comodo Antivirus? Then you need to inspect your system for privacy and security concerns. First of all, make sure whether your default browser had been changed to "Chromodo" -- a free browser offered by Comodo Antivirus. If your head nod is...

Google SHA-1 Deprecation

Google has announced its timeline for deprecating SHA-1 certificates, despite concerns expressed recently that sunsetting the broken encryption hashing algorithm will disconnect millions from the Internet. SHA-1’s demise has been accelerated in recent months since researchers published a paper...

Pro PoS Malware Simple, But Less Sophisticated Than Initially Thought

A strain of point-of-sale malware that began making the rounds on underground markets late last month is easy to use, but less sophisticated than initial reports suggested. According to researchers at Talos, Cisco’s research division, Pro PoS is mostly built on Alina, another type of POS malware...

Microsoft Considers Earlier SHA-1 Deprecation Deadline

Tech companies continue to back away from SHA-1 like it’s an infectious disease. Microsoft, which already had plans to deprecate the crusty cryptographic algorithm by the start of 2017, decided this week to move up that deadline six months. The company said it’s considering whether it will start...

Caution! Hackers Can Easily Hijack Popular Baby Monitors to Watch Your Kids

Several video baby monitors from six different manufacturers were under scrutiny for in-depth security testing, and the outcome was negative. Yes, they lacked in serving basic security through their devices. At the High Technology Crime Investigation Association HTCIA conference on September 2,...

Hackers Can Remotely Steal Fingerprints From Android Phones

Over a year ago I wrote an article on The Hacker News that warned of serious security concerns created by the iPhone and Android’s Fingerprint authentication. Till now hackers were impersonated simply by lifting prints off the side of a phone and gaining unauthorized access to user's phone and th...

How to Crack RC4 Encryption in WPA-TKIP and TLS

Security researchers have developed a more practical and feasible attack technique against the RC4 cryptographic algorithm that is still widely used to encrypt communications on the Internet. Despite being very old, RC4 Rivest Cipher 4 is still the most widely used cryptographic cipher implemente...

Virginia Voting Machines Exposed to Low-Level, Election Altering Hacks Since 2004

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency VITA is calling on the board of elections in that commonwealth to immediately discontinue use of its electronic voting devices after an examination revealed the systems lack strong credentials and encryption and are utterly vulnerable to vote...

Lenovo Website has been Hacked

Lenovo.com, the official website of world's largest PC maker has been hacked. At the time of writing, users visiting Lenovo.com website saw a teenager's slideshow and hacker also added song "Breaking Free" from High School Musical movie to the page background. It appears that Lizard Squad hacking...

Whatsapp Banned Users For Using WhatsApp PLUS App

Are you one of those victims whose WhatsApp app has recently been banned?? Then you must have installed a 3rd-party version of WhatsApp client, like WhatsAppMD or Whatsapp PLUS in your mobile phone for sure. Reportedly after 12 AM IST on 21st January 2015, WhatsApp, the widely popular messaging...

More Celebrity Photos Leaked — Kim Kardashian and Others Targeted

So far people have not forgotten about the recent celebrity iCloud hacking scandal, a new wave of photographs of celebrities have been leaked in what appears to be the second edition of the massive leak related to the celebrities intimate-images on Internet earlier this month. Among the victims o...

Apple Extends Two-Factor Authentication to iCloud

Apple finally has enabled two-factor authentication for its iCloud storage service, more than a year and a half after the company first turned the protective measure on for iTunes purchases and Apple ID. The extension of 2FA–which Apple calls two-step verification–to iCloud comes two weeks after...

CVE-2014-2227

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2014-07-23 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39268...