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Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D team at Israel’s Ben Gurion University, who previously demonstrated various methods to steal data from an air-gapped computer, has now published new research named “BeatCoin.”
BeatCoin is not a new hacking techn… Continue reading How to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys (Cold Storage) from Air-Gapped PCs
A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant.
According to the post, Facebook is looking f… Continue reading Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices
Global chip-maker Intel on Tuesday announced two new technologies—Threat Detection Technology (TDT) and Security Essentials—that not only offer hardware-based built-in security features across Intel processors but also improve threat detection without … Continue reading Intel Processors Now Allows Antivirus to Use Built-in GPUs for Malware Scanning
Internet-connected technology, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is now part of daily life, with smart assistants like Siri and Alexa to cars, watches, toasters, fridges, thermostats, lights, and the list goes on and on.
But of much greater … Continue reading Casino Gets Hacked Through Its Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer
Spanish Police has arrested the alleged leader of an organised Russian cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks, which stole over a billion euros from banks worldwide since 2013.
In a coordinated operation with law enforcement ag… Continue reading Leader of Hacking Group Who Stole $1 Billion From Banks Arrested In Spain
Chicago-based online travel booking company Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia, reveals that one of its old websites has been hacked, exposing nearly 880,000 payment card numbers of the people who made purchases online.
The data breach incident, which wa… Continue reading Expedia’s Orbitz Says 880,000 Payment Cards Compromised in Security Breach
Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail.
First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug … Continue reading A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac
Two days ago when infosec bods claimed to have uncovered what’s believed to be the first case of a SCADA network (a water utility) infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware, a batch of journalists accused other authors of making fear-mongering headli… Continue reading Russian Scientists Arrested for Using Nuclear Weapon Facility to Mine Bitcoins
Oracle has released a security patch update to address a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability that affects its MICROS point-of-sale (POS) business solutions for the hospitality industry.
The fix has been released as part of Oracle’s January 201… Continue reading Critical Oracle Micros POS Flaw Affects Over 300,000 Payment Systems
Lenovo has recently rolled out security patches for a severe vulnerability in its Fingerprint Manager Pro software that could allow leak sensitive data stored by the users.
Fingerprint Manager Pro is a utility for Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 operat… Continue reading Hard-coded Password Lets Attackers Bypass Lenovo’s Fingerprint Scanner