Week in review: The life of a social engineer, and the end of TeslaCrypt
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: The life of a social engineer: Hacking the human A clean-cut guy with rimmed glasses …
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, …
Phineas Fisher records, publishes latest attack
Phineas Fisher, the hacker behing the Gamma International and Hacking Team breaches and data leaks, is at it again. This time his target was Sindicat de Mossos …
Blockchain technologies: A key tool for data management?
Blockchain technologies (the technical foundation for Bitcoin) hold great potential to solve government’s long-term challenge of establishing clear rules about who has …
Making the financial sector more resilient to cyber attack
Firms across the financial and related professional services industry need to take urgent action on cyber risk, according to a new report from TheCityUK and Marsh. There were …
The changing economics of the digital ecosystem
The GSMA published a new report examining the structure, economic drivers and financial performance of the global Internet economy and its respective segments. The research …
The gravest dangers for CMS-based websites
Over a third of all websites on the Internet are powered by one of these four key open source platforms: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and Magento. This makes the life of …
Google Allo messaging app offers end-to-end crypto, but not as default
On Wednesday, at its annual developer-focused conference, Google introduced two new cross-platform apps: Allo and Duo. Google Allo is a messaging app, and Duo is a video …
The end of TeslaCrypt: Master decryption key released
The operators of TeslaCrypt ransomware have decided to close up shop and have published a master key that decrypts the files encrypted by the malware. They also wrote that the …
The life of a social engineer: Hacking the human
A clean-cut guy with rimmed glasses and a warm smile, Jayson E. Street looks nothing like the stereotypical hacker regularly portrayed in movies (i.e. pale, grim and …
LinkedIn users’ data on sale on the dark web
A hacker has put up a batch of info about 167 million LinkedIn accounts for sale on dark web marketplace The Real Deal. Of these, some 117 million records contain email …
You are what you click: Online search security risks
When it comes to the desire for the ideal body, people may be willing to sacrifice their online security if it takes them a step closer to achieving desired results, according …
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