Beware of fake invites for WhatsApp’s Free Voice Calling feature!
Fake WhatsApp invites are actively luring users to sites where they are urged to fill out surveys and download unknown applications, warns The Hacker News’ Mohit Kumar. …
Apple issued update for FREAK flaw in OS X and iOS
Apple has released security updates for OS X and iOS which, among other things, fix the FREAK flaw that may allow an attacker to decrypt secure communications between …
Hacking Nest Thermostat
TrapX confirmed the design flaws discovered in the Nest Learning Thermostat. They validated the attack vector presented at the Black Hat 2014 conference by compromising the …
Active campaigns deliver old and new ransomware families
Cyber crooks’ love for ransomware continues unabated, and user are warned about several active campaigns trying to deliver the malware on target computers. The campaigns …
The Pentagon is looking to hire 3,000 infosec pros
The US Department of Defense has gotten permission and is aiming to hire 3,000 infosec professionals to work at the US Cyber Command by the end of this year, and is set to …
μTorrent comes bundled with crypto-miner, users are furious
BitTorrent, the company responsible for the development of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol as well as that of μTorrent, a widely used torrent client, has been …
Three indicted for breaching Email Service Providers, monetizing stolen data
Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu, both citizens of Vietnam who resided for a period of time in the Netherlands, have been indicted on Friday for their role in a massive …
Data classification ranks in top 3 security controls
Bloor Research surveyed 200 senior IT security executives in the UK and the US, all with organizations that have more than 1,000 employees. More than half (54%) of …
Seagate acknowledges NAS 0-day, announces patch
After security researcher OJ Reeves publicly revealed the existence of a remote code execution zero-day flaw affecting Seagate’s Business Storage 2-Bay NAS line of …
UK: 57 arrested for cyber crime, including US DoD hacker
Last week was a busy one for UK law enforcement, as agents from the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) of the National Crime Agency (NCA) spearheaded a nationwide cyber crime …
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Week in review: FREAK flaw, a new PoS malware family, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: A threat assessment of 7 million iOS and Android apps Android malware is …