Collaborate Disseminate
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
Following a series of security mishaps and data abuse through its social media platform, Facebook today expanding its bug bounty program in a very unique way to beef up the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform.
La… Continue reading Facebook Now Pays Hackers for Reporting Security Bugs in 3rd-Party Apps
Attention Linux Users!
A new vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo—one of the most important, powerful, and commonly used utilities that comes as a core command installed on almost every UNIX and Linux-based operating system.
The vulnerability in… Continue reading Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They’re Restricted
A 39-year-old password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers…. Continue reading UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
Watch out Windows users!
The cybercriminal group behind BitPaymer and iEncrypt ransomware attacks has been found exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting a little-known component that comes bundled with Apple’s iTunes and iCloud software for Wind… Continue reading Apple iTunes and iCloud for Windows 0-Day Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in iTerm2 macOS terminal emulator app—one of the most popular open source replacements for Mac’s built-in terminal app.
Tracked as CVE-2019-9535, the vulnerability in iTerm2… Continue reading 7-Year-Old Critical RCE Flaw Found in Popular iTerm2 macOS Terminal App
Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, Android.
What’s more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild… Continue reading New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild