Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), handed her resignation to President Obama after the data of 21.5 million people was compromised in the largest data breach in the U.S. government’s history. The leaked information contained social security numbers, fingerprints, login credentials and background investigation records. According […]
When members of the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) met with the Italian surveillance company Hacking Team in Ottawa in 2011, they weren’t just interested in the company’s remote spy software—they also inquired about Hacking Team’s collection of software vulnerabilities, exploits, and network hacking tools. Oh, and they invited […]
Adobe Systems Inc. says its plans to issue a patch on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is reportedly being exploited in active attacks. The flaw was disclosed publicly over the weekend after hackers broke into and posted online hundreds of gigabytes of data from […]
These days, every company knows that having its website appear at the top of Google’s results for relevant keyword searches makes a big difference in traffic and helps the business. Numerous search engine optimization (SEO) techniques have existed for years and provided marketers with ways to climb up the PageRank […]
The Team behind Kali Linux have been awfully quiet lately, which usually means something is brewing below the surface. In the past few months they have been working feverishly on the next generation of Kali Linux and it’s looking as if they are really happy with how it’s looking so far. There’s a lot […]
Hacking Team documentation accompanying the Flash exploit said it targeted “the most beautiful Flash bug for the last four years,” according to a blog post published Wednesday by researchers from antivirus provider Trend Micro. The use-after-free flaw resides in a Flash Bytearray object. Researchers at competing AV company Symantec have […]
“Oh, you’re the pentester? Yeah, you should know… I’ve got a CEH…” “Really? Is that why you’ve got a dozen servers that were last updated before iPhones were invented?” Not even joking…
Former Kaspersky Japan boss Hendrik Adrian is warning of a boom of ZeusVM botnets, after the Trojan source code was leaked online. Version two of the builder and panel source code leaked last month, and spotted by the French malware researcher known as Xylitol Adrian, who uses the online handle […]
Ad fraud malware is one of the more profitable specialities in the cyber crime world, and the attackers who use it often have to adapt their tactics in order to keep the money rolling in. One of the tactics that they have adopted in recent months is that of […]
SO MANY HACKS, so few days in the week to write alarming stories about every one. Here’s our roundup of what you have may missed this week. First, some news: a shocking revelation that the GCHQ, England’s spy organization, has been spying on Amnesty International. This is ironic, considering the […]