Zeljka Zorz
Sophisticated Mokes backdoor targets Mac users
A new malware targeting Macs has been discovered: the Mokes backdoor. Capable of making screenshots, recording keystrokes, capturing audio, and rifling through Office …
Flaws in Network Management Systems open enterprise networks to attacks
For quite a while now, Rapid7 researchers Tod Beardsley and Deral Heiland have been looking for vulnerabilities in various Network Management Systems (NMSs). With the help of …
German Federal Intelligence Service violates laws, dodges supervision
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been illegally collecting data through mass surveillance tools, storing it in databases that should not exist, and has …
Yelp makes its bug bounty program public
After two years of keeping their bug bounty program private and relatively secret, Yelp is opening it up and has invited bug hunters to probe its sites, apps, and …
Review: Protecting Patient Information
About the author Paul Cerrato has more than 30 years of experience working in healthcare and has written extensively on patient care, electronic health records, protected …
Mirai Linux Trojan corrals IoT devices into DDoS botnets
Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently …
Nearly 800,000 Brazzers users’ credentials exposed
Account login credentials of nearly 800,000 Brazzers porn site users have been stolen in 2012, but the breach has only now come to light, after the data dump was obtained by …
Too many Cisco ASA boxes still open to an EXTRABACON attack
Among the Equation Group exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers, the one named EXTRABACON that targets Cisco ASA devices got the most attention from security researchers and …
Rambler.ru hack: Passwords of nearly 100 million users exposed
A new data leak – confirmed to be legitimate by LeakedSource and added to its searchable online database – affects nearly 100 million users of Rambler.ru, one of …
How a security researcher is tackling IoT security testing
“A common misconception people in the industry have regarding my work as a security researcher is that I am sharing information that puts businesses at risk. And also, …
Betabot steals passwords, downloads ransomware
The infamous and ever-changing Betabot information-stealing Trojan is back again, and has been observed downloading another well-known threat – the Cerber ransomware. Of …
London economy hit hard by security breaches
A new report by the Conservative members on the London Assembly, which help scrutinise the work of the Mayor of London, estimates that in 2015 in London 329,515 organizations …
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