You have around 20 minutes to contain a Russian APT attack
Governments and private organisations have around 20 minutes to detect and contain a hack from Russian nation-state actors. New statistics...
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PrivateVPN Thoughts
PrivateVPN Does PrivateVPN keep any logs? The FAQ is emphatic: "No, we NEVER produce logs of any data traffic. The only things...
Locky ransomware back with a new bag of tricks
Locky ransomware is back, again... It's delivered with the help of new tricks to fool users and anti-malware defences. Delivered...
AI is key to speeding up threat detection and response
Time is the most important factor in detecting network breaches and, consequently, in containing cyber incidents and mitigating the cost of...
Hackers Mock Cybersecurity Firm FireEye with Second Data Dump
The dump is relatively small, containing around 3MB of files. https://pastebin.com/L48e49AK At the end of July, anonymous hackers published documents stolen from...
Fines of £17m for unprotected UK firms
The UK Government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that firms could face fines of up...
Spaghetti – Web Application Security Scanner
Description Spaghetti is a web application security scanner tool. It is designed to find various default and insecure files, configurations...
PasswordStats – A cool new password reporting tool
Have you ever done a domain password audit? Well yes the cracking of the passwords can be fun depending on...
Malboxes: a Tool to Build Malware Analysis Virtual Machines
Malware analysis is like defusing bombs. The objective is to disassemble and understand a program that was built to do...
Windows SMB Zero-Day Exploit Released in the Wild after Microsoft delayed the Patch
Last weekend a security researcher publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Server editions after Microsoft...
An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web
Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you...
Cisco Prime Home: Hackers in your network?
As we connect more and more devices to the internet, we create more and more potential security vulnerabilities. While we’re...
Three Mobile Data Breach
Customer information from more than 130,000 users of the Three mobile network has been compromised in a cyber security breach,...
UK Snoopers Charter 2 passed
Well that's not good, not good at all. The new bill will force internet companies to store their users’ browsing data...
BlackHat Europe 2016: Day 2 of 2
Day 2 at Blackhat EU 2016 and had a great day. This talk Breaking Big Data: Evading Analysis of the...
BlackHat Europe 2016: Day 1 of 2
Today was day 1 of 2 for me at BlackHat Europe 2016, one of my highlights was the tool Bloodhound ...
Shadow Brokers leak list of hacked NSA Servers
The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked a portion of the NSA’s hacking...
Well thanks anna-senpai for the Mirai source code release
Yeah, thanks a lot.... in-case you can't tell its my sarcasm kicking in. After doing heavy damage to KrebsOnSecurity and...
Testing for the dirty cow CVE-2016-5195?
On october 19 2016, the Dirty Cow vulnerability went public (which is kernel privilege escalation vulnerability) . From what I...
Potential Ransomware Hits Linux Servers
Linux running web servers appear to be at risk of a new strain of ransomware called FairWare. Three Linux administrators,...
Kelihos Botnet now dishing out Ransomware
Kelihos is one of the oldest botnets, first spotted way back in 2008, but it has managed to survive a...
NSA potentially hacked by The Shadow Brokers
It seems that the NSA has been hacked. This is being speculated after a group of hackers going by the...
BBC sniffing Wi-Fi packets to detect BBC iPlayer users without TV Licence.
From September 1, you'll need a TV licence if you stream catch-up or on-demand TV from the BBC's iPlayer service, regardless...
Stuxnet : Operation Olympic Games NSA Codename
Everyone knows about the joint USA and Israeli malware called Stuxnet that was designed to put a halt to the...
