Collaborate Disseminate
An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories.
It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a “loud” … Continue reading Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked
A while back, I sent a signed copy of IWS to someone who was willing to write a review, and they’ve gone about trying to post their review with some difficulty, albeit not for a lack of trying on their part. I greatly appreciate the effort, not j… Continue reading IWS Review
Mozilla has finally introduced a mechanism to let Firefox browser automatically fix certain TLS errors, often triggered when antivirus software installed on a system tries to intercept secure HTTPS connections.
Most Antivirus software offers web secur… Continue reading Firefox to Automatically Trust OS-Installed CA Certificates to Prevent TLS Errors
The German police yesterday raided the house of the developer of OmniRAT and seized his laptop, computer and mobile phones probably as part of an investigation into a recent cyber attack, a source told The Hacker News.
OmniRAT made headlines in Novemb… Continue reading Exclusive: German Police Raid OmniRAT Developer and Seize Digital Assets
In the last two weeks, Florida has paid more than $1.1 million in bitcoin to cybercriminals to recover encrypted files from two separate ransomware attacks—one against Riviera Beach and the other against Lake City.
Lake City, a city in northern Florid… Continue reading Two Florida Cities Paid $1.1 Million to Ransomware Hackers This Month
A popular gaming platform used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide has been found vulnerable to multiple security flaws that could have allowed remote hackers to takeover players’ accounts and steal sensitive data.
The vulnerabilities in quest… Continue reading Account Takeover Vulnerability Found in Popular EA Games Origin Platform
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about an ongoing Android malware campaign that has been active since 2016 and was first publicly reported in August 2018.
Dubbed “ViceLeaker” by researchers at Kaspersky, the campaign has recently been found targe… Continue reading ‘Legit Apps Turned into Spyware’ Targeting Android Users in Middle East
Cybersecurity researchers from Intego are warning about possible active exploitation of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Gatekeeper security feature details and PoC for which were publicly disclosed late last month.
Intego team las… Continue reading New Mac Malware Exploits GateKeeper Bypass Bug that Apple Left Unpatched
In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown.
Have you ever noticed they all had at least one … Continue reading OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks
Okay, folks, it’s time to update your Firefox web browser once again—yes, for the second time this week.
After patching a critical actively-exploited vulnerability in Firefox 67.0.3 earlier this week, Mozilla is now warning millions of its users about… Continue reading Firefox 67.0.4 Released — Mozilla Patches Second 0-Day Flaw This Week