South Korea's spy agency said Tuesday that North Korea had hacked into smartphones belonging to a number of key government officials, part of a series of cyber-attacks launched after its fourth nuclear test.
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Facebook Password Reset Flaw Earns Researcher $15,000
A researcher says he has earned $15,000 for informing Facebook of a vulnerability that could have been exploited to reset the password of any user account.
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WhatHat’s Jeremiah Grossman Leaving Security Firm
Jeremiah Grossman Leaving WhiteHat Security After 15 Years
WhiteHat Security founder Jeremiah Grossman announced on Monday that he will be leaving the application security firm he started nearly 15 years ago.
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Pawn Storm Group Targets Turkey
Pawn Storm, the cyber espionage group linked by some researchers to Russia, has recently started targeting government and news organizations in Turkey, Trend Micro reported on Monday.
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Seagate Employee Tax Forms Stolen in Phishing Attack
The W-2 tax documents of several thousand current and former employees of data storage company Seagate ended up in the hands of fraudsters after an employee fell victim to a phishing attack.
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Continue readingMultiple Passcode Bypass Vulnerabilities Discovered in iOS 9
Apple’s iOS 9.0, 9.1, and most recent 9.2.1 releases contain multiple connected passcode protection bypass vulnerabilities that affect both iPhone and iPad devices, researchers at Vulnerability Lab warn.
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Backdoor in WordPress Plugin Steals Admin Credentials
Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM), a WordPress plugin with over 10,000 active installations, recently turned rogue and started stealing admin credentials via a backdoor, researchers at Sucuri discovered.
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New OS X Ransomware Delivered via BitTorrent Client
A piece of ransomware designed to target OS X systems has been delivered to users via the official installer for the BitTorrent client Transmission.
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Don’t Shop Hungry for Security
Don’t Rush to Satisfy That Hunger Until You Can be Sure of What You Need…
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Amazon Changes Stance on Encryption for Fire Tablets
After killing support for full disk encryption on its Kindle Fire devices and quietly removing it from Fire HD and Fire HDX 8.9 devices with the release of Fire OS 5 in February, Amazon has had a change of heart.
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