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Search for vulnerable servers unearths weak, thousands-times repeated RSA keys

A group of researchers from the Information Security Group from Royal Holloway, University of London, wanted to see how many TLS servers still supported the weak, export-grade …

D-Link patches critical flaws in wireless range extender, Wi-Fi cameras firmware

D-Link has released new firmware for its DAP-1320 wireless range extender and the DCS-93xL family of Wi-Fi cameras in order to patch two critical vulnerabilities that can lead …

Deanonymizing Tor users with Raptor attacks

A group of researchers from Princeton University and ETH Zurich have found yet another way to deanonymize Tor users. “There are essentially two ways for an adversary to …

The Andromeda botnet is ballooning once again

Cybercriminals are, once again, trying to swell the number of computers compromised by the Andromeda backdoor. This will allow them to control the machines and download …

How Snowden’s revelations affected Americans’ communication habits and online activities

Nearly two years after news outlets started reporting on previously publicly unknown surveillance and data collection practices by the US NSA and its counterparts around the …

Exploit kits in 2015: What can we expect?

Since 2006, when the earliest exploit kit (WebAttacker) was made available in the crimeware market, these hack toolkits have become one of the preferred ways for cybercrooks …

Yahoo announces email encryption plugin, password-free logins

Yahoo email users will soon be able to encrypt the emails they send out by simply clicking on a button. In addition to this, users will be able to effectively forget their …

Students create open source, cross-platform memory scanning tool

Mozilla has unveiled the result of a successful project executed by a group of Computer Science students from Argentina: it’s called Masche, and it’s an open …

Facebook worm spreads by leveraging cloud services

Facebook users are in danger of having their computers turned in a bot by a worm that spreads via the social network. The worm, identified as belonging to the Kilim malware …

Critical hole in popular WordPress SEO plugin allows SQLi, site hijacking

Another highly popular WordPress plugin has been found sporting a cross-site request forgery flaw that can be exploited to mount a blind SQL injection attack, and could also …

Huge IT Slider WordPress plugin opens SQL injection hole

The 50,000+ active users of the Huge IT Slider WordPress plugin are advised to update to the latest version, as it closes a vulnerability that can be exploited by website …

New crypto-ransomware encrypts video games files

A new piece of ransomware that (mis)uses the Cryptolocker “brand” has been analyzed by Bromium researchers, and they discovered that aside from the usual …

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