Everyone knows about the joint USA and Israeli malware called Stuxnet that was designed to put a halt to the Iranian nuclear program. According to the new Documentary film Zero Days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/ Stuxnet was really called Operation Olympic Games. This was from an Anonymous NSA employee that work in TAO, which […]
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The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton’s private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State’s “completely unsecured” server. “It was like an open orchid on the Internet,” Marcel Lehel Lazar, who uses the devilish handle Guccifer, […]
Millions of services that ought to be restricted are exposed on the open internet, creating a huge risk of hacker attack against databases and more. Infosec firm Rapid7’s researchers took a close look at the millions and millions of individual services that live on the public IP network, one of […]
TeamViewer has announced two new features today aimed at boosting the app’s security after the company’s reputation was smirched this week. It all happened following a DDoS attack that downed its servers, during which many users flocked online to complain about getting hacked. The two new features are called Trusted […]
Laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer and Lenovo all had at least one vulnerability that could result in complete compromise of system, Duo Security report says. Pre-loaded software update tools installed on laptops from five major OEM PC vendors can lead to a full system compromise in less than 10 […]
As you all know, there have been many many many data breach’s lately, you know LinkedIn again recently admitted to having a bigger leak than previously thought in 2012. Well , Troy Hunts service HaveIBeenPwned.com has released an update , to include Fling.com ( NSFW ) MySpace, Tumblr and the […]
Phineas Fisher, the hacker that was behind the Hacking Team and the Gamma International breaches and data leaks, is at it again. His target was (the Catalan police union). He/She totally pwned the server, while he/she was there he/she defaced the union’s website, plundered their web server, published personal information about police […]
In surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. Over the past few weeks, an analyst for ESET had noticed that the developers of TeslaCrypt have been slowly closing their doors, while their previous distributors have been switching over to distributing the CryptXXX ransomware. When the […]
The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman without Apple’s help, ending a court case, the US justice department says. Apple had been resisting a court order issued last month requiring the firm to write new software to allow officials to access Syed Rizwan Farook’s […]
A large Los Angeles hospital chose to pay hackers who were holding its computer network hostage, a move its CEO said was in its best interest and the most efficient way to end the problem. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center showed uncommon transparency in saying Wednesday that it paid the 40 bitcoins […]
I have recently found a vulnerability on my Netgear Managed Switch I use at home. Its an information disclosure vulnerability. Basically the web management application fails to restrict URL access to different application areas. Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit this issue to download the device’s startup-config, which contains administrator credentials in encrypted form. […]
Attackers can bypass controls to distribute malware. eBay has refused to fix a major flaw in its online sales platform that is being used to target Android, iOS and Windows users with malware, according to security firm Check Point. The company today published details of a “severe vulnerability” it said […]
GOOGLE’S SECURITY street gang Project Zero has been kicking sand in the face of Malwarebytes and picking the firm’s protection precautions apart. Malwarebytes usually wears the boot in this kind of thing, but Project Zero has taken a punt in the security firm’s direction and accused it of all sorts […]
Asda, the second largest supermarket in the UK by market share, reportedly failed to patch a vulnerability in its online grocery store that exposed customers’ personal information and payment details for nearly two years. Information security consultant Paul Moore estimates that over 19 million transactions were potentially at risk in […]
Oracle on Wednesday announced specific plans to kill the Java browser plugin and has advised users to start migrating to other technologies. In the old days, advanced Web features were only available in browsers via plugins leveraging the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI), the most popular applications being Java, […]
LG today released a security update for some of its latest smartphones to resolve a severe vulnerability found in the Smart Notice application. Introduced by LG in 2014, along with the flagship LG G3, the Smart Notice application comes pre-loaded on all new LG smartphones, and was designed to display notifications […]
Welcome back to the RedPacket Security website. An important milestone for Offensive Security has come with the first public release of Kali Linux rolling distribution. Kali switched to a rolling release model back when they hit version 2.0 (codename “sana”), however the rolling release was only available via an upgrade from 2.0 […]
A security researcher has claimed that Mikey-Sakke, the security protocol behind the GCHQ-developed Secure Voice encryption standard, has a built-in backdoor that allows the UK spy agency to intercept and snoop on phone calls. The findings come from Dr Steven Murdoch of University College London, who published a […]
So we have all heard about the recent DDoS attack on ProtonMail over the last week or so, but that hasn’t stopped them cracking on with things. I have been with ProtonMail since I heard about them opening it up for a limited amount […]
ProtonMail, the secure encrypted email service in Switzerland have been having bad time recently. ProtonMail, an encrypted email provider, has been coerced into forking over 15 bitcoin (the equivalent of $6000) by hackers who targeted the provider with a sustained DDoS attack that started on Nov. 3. ProtonMail was launched […]
In total 4% of the customer base had personal data compromised. The cyber-attack on TalkTalk was successful on a much smaller scale than the company initially estimated, according to the latest update on the matter. When the story initially broke, it was reported that millions of customers were affected […]