Ruslan Stoyanov was right: what could be history’s most advanced financially-driven malware was the progeny of some 50 jailed hackers known as the Lurk group.…
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Researchers at security firm FireEye may have found the malware responsible for plundering ATMs across Thailand and other parts of South East Asia.…
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A Chinese certificate authority handed out a base certificate for Github and the Univerisity of Central Florida to a mere user in a significant security blunder.…
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Apple has pushed out an emergency security update for iPhones, iPads and iPods after super sophisticated spyware was found exploiting three iOS vulnerabilities.…
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In a shocking development, smart lock manufacturer August has been caught promptly patching security holes discovered in its product.…
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Analysis A team of security researchers tipped off an investment firm about software vulnerabilities in life-preserving medical equipment in order to profit from the fallout.…
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Organisations across the Asia Pacific are terrible at information security, a Mandiant report contests.…
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The third version of the Pwntools exploit showbag has been released, sporting new Android p0wnage functions and a host of additional modules.…
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The perpetrator behind the dumping of tools penned by the probably-the-NSA hacking squad called”Equation Group” appears to be a native English speaker, according to linguistic data researcher Shlomo Argamon.…
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Broadcast On the September 27 2016 at 11am we’re running a live broadcast that will explore the changing game of application security.…
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Clothing chain Eddie Bauer has admitted the payment terminals in more than 350 of its stores have been siphoning customers’ bank card details to criminals.…
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Let’s Encrypt has revised its rate limits to make life easier for large organisations and hosting providers who use its services.…
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Cybercrooks are harnessing the “ransomware-as-a-Service” (RaaS) business model to mount a new scam.…
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China has launched a satellite dubbed “Micius” that bears the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) instrument it will use to test quantum communications between Earth and space.…
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An unspecified IT problem has taken down the online reporting tool for cybercrime victims in the UK.…
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Cybercrooks are touting a new DIY financial crime kit that lets you roll your own ZeuS-like software nasty.…
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When hackers, believed to be a Russian crime gang, broke into Oracle-owned payment terminal biz MICROS, it was assumed the crooks were snooping around other register makers, too.…
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A curious proof-of-work project built on cryptocurrency has emerged that offers a means to prove participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Hilton hotels’ HHonors loyalty program has shipped an email so similar to a phishing email it tricked its own IT shop into advising that it was a scam.…
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The United Kingdom has copped the largest jump in credit card fraud of all European countries with an 18 per cent rise resulting in £88m ($ 114m, A$ 150m) of additional losses.…
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Black Hat Deep Instinct researcher Tom Nipravsky has undermined the ubiquitous security technique of digitally-signed files by baking malicious code into headers without tripping popular security tools.…
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DEF CON Hardcore hackers and the corporate security industry have never really got on that well. Symantec is looking to change that after hiring Tarah Wheeler to act as its cybersecurity czar.…
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DEF CON While some fear the US government is hoarding a vast pool of zero-day security vulnerabilities, the reality is that it probably holds just a few dozen, according to a study by Columbia University.…
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DEF CON A quest to build a smart computer system that finds and patches bugs faster and more efficiently than humans is off to a good start with all the teams in DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge performing very well indeed.…
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Elements of the payment card industry have introduced a new contactless payment card security feature, designed to defend against relay attacks.…
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If we have internet-facing web servers (and other types of server, for that matter) we care about how vulnerable they are to attack. There are loads of services out there that you can use to probe your public-facing systems, and they’ll tell you loads of useful stuff about why they might be vulnerable. But of course they’re only useful if you understand what on Earth the probe service is telling you.…
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Black Hat EndGame vulnerability researchers Cody Pierce, Matt Spisak, and Kenneth Fitch have created a defence framework to protect against deeper modern attacks.…
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Black Hat Neil Wyler and Bart Stump are responsible for managing what is probably the world’s most-attacked wireless network.…
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