Nine arrested in UK investigation of criminal network defrauding bank customers
Detectives investigating an organized criminal network responsible for defrauding bank customers across the UK out of approximately £60 million have arrested nine …
Week in review: Criminals hacked chip-and-PIN system, secret code in printers allows tracking, and insecure WD self-encrypting hard drives
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:Criminals hacked chip-and-PIN system by perfecting researchers’ PoC attackWhen …
CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the …
Data of 4 million TalkTalk customers likely stolen in wake of website attack
TalkTalk, one of UK’s biggest telecoms, has suffered a “significant and sustained cyberattack” on their website, and it’s possible that personal and …
Microsoft wants researchers to find bugs in .NET Core and ASP.NET, will pay
Microsoft has launched another specialized bug bounty that’s set to run until January 20th, 2016.Bug hunters, who can earn between $500 and $15,000 depending on the …
Smart home security and privacy checklist
Today’s homes are being built and retrofitted with smart apps and devices to monitor things like security, temperature and lighting. Homeowners and renters should be cognizant …
12 new malware strains discovered each minute
G DATA researchers discovered a 64.8 percent spike of new malware strains as compared to the first half of 2014. This averages out to 12 new strains per minute. In all, the …
Four things to know about new net neutrality rules
Net neutrality is crucial to the future development of the Internet. It is the principle that all online traffic should be treated equally, regardless of the type of content …
New ransomware delivered via Windows Remote Desktop Services
A new type of ransomware – dubbed LowLevel04 – is hitting users in Greece and Bulgaria. It is apparently delivered on the affected computers manually by the …
Apple pushes out critical security updates for OS X, iOS, watchOS, and other products
Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, …
WikiLeaks publishes documents stolen from CIA director’s email account
CIA Director John Brennan’s private AOL email account has been hacked, apparently by teenage hackers with good social engineering skills.While it seems that the account …
Think twice about Android root
In recent years the practice of Android rooting, that is the process of allowing an Android phone or tablet to bypass restrictions set by carriers, operating systems or …