Collaborate Disseminate
An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the… Continue reading App Used by Israel’s Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters
The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans.
In a joint press confere… Continue reading U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Hackers Over Equifax Data Breach
It may sound creepy and unreal, but hackers can also exfiltrate sensitive data from your computer by simply changing the brightness of the screen, new cybersecurity research shared with The Hacker News revealed.
In recent years, several cybersecurity … Continue reading Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Using Screen Brightness
There are over a hundred potential ways hackers can ruin your life by having access to your WiFi network that’s also connected to your computers, smartphones, and other smart devices.
Whether it’s about exploiting operating system and software vulnera… Continue reading Flaw in Philips Smart Light Bulbs Exposes Your WiFi Network to Hackers
A cybersecurity researcher today disclosed technical details of multiple high severity vulnerabilities he discovered in WhatsApp, which, if exploited, could have allowed remote attackers to compromise the security of billions of users in different ways… Continue reading This WhatsApp Bug Could Have Let Attackers Access Files On Your PCs
Joe Vennix of Apple security has found another significant vulnerability in sudo utility that under a specific configuration could allow low privileged users or malicious programs to execute arbitrary commands with administrative (‘root’) privileges on… Continue reading Sudo Bug Lets Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users Run Commands as Root
Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point today disclosed details of two recently patched potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure services that, if exploited, could have allowed hackers to target several businesses that run their web an… Continue reading Microsoft Azure Flaws Could Have Let Hackers Take Over Cloud Servers
Facebook is one of the world’s biggest advertising platforms, and that’s because it knows a lot about you, me, and everyone.
Facebook uses many tools to track people across the Internet, whether they have an account with the social networking site or … Continue reading How to Clear Data Facebook Collects About You from Other Sites and Apps
I finally managed to publish the update to my paper on pentesting, “Using Penetration Testing and Red Teams to Assess and Improve Security”. It has some small tweaks from the previous version, including some additional guidance around Breac… Continue reading From my Gartner Blog – Updated Paper on Penetration Testing and Red Teams
One of the things I like to do is engage in DFIR analysis of CTF and challenge images, just to see what pops out and what new things I can learn. I did just that recently with Dr. Ali Hadi’s challenge #4, described as “launching attacks from alte… Continue reading "Hidden" Prefetch File Analysis and Alternate Data Sources