Collaborate Disseminate
A story has been making the rounds on the Internet since yesterday about a cyber attack on an Indian nuclear power plant.
Due to some experts commentary on social media even after lack of information about the event and overreactions by many, the inci… Continue reading Hackers Target Indian Nuclear Power Plant – Everything We Know So Far
UniCredit, an Italian global banking and financial services company, announced today that it suffered a security incident that leaked some personal information belonging to at least 3 million of its domestic customers.
Officially founded in 1870, UniC… Continue reading UniCredit Bank Suffers ‘Data Incident’ Exposing 3 Million Italian Customer Records
I wanted to put something scary together in time for Halloween; I was gonna go with a mullet wig, a la Joe Dirt, or maybe pass out cards with truly scary cards for those of us who are adulting, full time, such as, “…your septic field just rose and fl… Continue reading Return of the LNK Files…
If you’re running any PHP based website on NGINX server and have PHP-FPM feature enabled for better performance, then beware of a newly disclosed vulnerability that could allow unauthorized attackers to hack your website server remotely.
The vulnerabi… Continue reading New PHP Flaw Could Let Attackers Hack Sites Running On Nginx Servers
After a huge delay I can finally announce that the new version of our Vulnerability Management Guidance Framework is out! Although it is a refresh of a document that has gone through many updates (even before my Gartner time), this one has some very ni… Continue reading From my Gartner Blog – The New Vulnerability Management Guidance Framework
Mobile carriers in the United States will finally offer a universal cross-carrier communication standard for the next-generation RCS messaging service that is meant to replace SMS and has the potential to change the way consumers interact with brands f… Continue reading Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile to replace SMS with RCS Messaging in 2020
First of all, if you have any of the below-listed apps installed on your Android device, you are advised to uninstall it immediately.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified 42 apps on the Google Play Store with a total of more than 8 million downlo… Continue reading 42 Adware Apps with 8 Million Downloads Traced Back to Vietnamese Student
Something I’ve observed over the years is that analysis of the Windows Registry is still a largely misunderstood, misinterpreted, and under-appreciated aspect of analysis of Windows systems.What is “Registry analysis”? Registry analysis is the ob… Continue reading Registry Analysis
Fair elections are the lifelines of democracy, but in recent years election hacking has become a hot topic worldwide.
Whether it’s American voting machines during the 2016 presidential election or India’s EVMs during 2014 general elections, the integr… Continue reading Microsoft to Reward Hackers for Finding Bugs in Open Source Election Software
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent … Continue reading Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers