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Privacy Shield
European privacy advisor wants encryption without backdoors

“The confidentiality of online communications by individuals and businesses is essential for the functioning of modern societies and economies. The EU rules designed to …

Dell
Dell SonicWALL GMS comes with hidden default account

While developing new audit modules for the company’s vulnerability scanning technology, Digital Defense researchers found six vulnerabilities in Dell’s SonicWALL …

Apple
Keydnap malware opens backdoor, goes after passwords in OS X keychain

ESET researchers have revealed the existence of another new piece of malware aimed at Mac machines and users: Keydnap. Keydnap has the ability to steal passwords and keys …

Apple
New Mac OS X backdoor disguised as document converter app

Bitdefender researchers have discovered and analyzed a new, highly dangerous piece of malware targeting Mac systems and users. The malware, dubbed “Eleanor,” opens …

signal
Ubiquiti routers hit by backdoor-generating worm

A worm targeting wireless network equipment developed by US-based Ubiquiti Networks has already managed to compromise thousands of routers across the world. To spread it, …

Tor project
Tor Project exploring ways to keep its software and users safe

In view of the recent legal battle between the FBI and Apple regarding phone encryption, and this article revealing that there have been many instances where the US Department …

criminal
Carbanak cyber-thieves’ newest attacks exposed

The infamous Carbanak group is again doing what it does best: attacks and compromises financial institutions, and tries to steal as much money as possible from them by taking …

WordPress
Popular WordPress plugin opens backdoor, steals user credentials

If you are one of the 10,000+ users of the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) WordPress plugin, consider your site to be compromised and proceed to clean your installation up, …

backdoor
Most infosec pros consider government-mandated encryption backdoors a bad idea

Apple and the FBI have been engaged in a legal battle over the federal government’s right to require built-in smartphone encryption software that could aid law enforcement …

Linux Mint
Linux Mint hack: Backdoored ISOs, stolen forums database

The web properties of the project developing Linux Mint have been compromised, and the attacker managed to put up a backdoored version of the distro for download for a little …

Government-mandated crypto backdoors are pointless, says report

If you needed another confirmation that government-mandated backdoors in US encryption products would only serve to damage US companies’ competitiveness without actually …

Skype
T9000 backdoor steals documents, records Skype conversations, victims’ actions

A new backdoor Trojan with spyware capabilities is being used in targeted attacks against organizations based in the United States. It has been dubbed T9000, since it’s …

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