DEF CON plans to show US election hacking is so easy kids can do it
Exploit contest opened for tykes – meanwhile, Republicans kill new funding for election security DEF CON Last year, the hackers at DEF CON showed how shockingly easy it was to crack into voting machine software and hardware. Next week, the 2018 conference’s Vote Hacking Village will let kids…
Reddit Hacked – Emails, Passwords, Private Messages Stolen
Another day, another significant data breach. This time the victim is Reddit… seems someone is really pissed off with Reddit’s account ban policy or bias moderators. Reddit social media network today announced that it suffered a security breach in June that exposed some of its users’ data,…
SamSam Ransomware Attacks Extorted Nearly $6 Million
Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revealed that the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from its victims since December 2015, when the cyber gang behind the ransomware started distributing the malware…
Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers
Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in Europe, admitted that the breach affected around 10 million customers, up from an initial estimate of 1.2 million…
Boys Town Healthcare Data Breach Exposed Personal Details of Patients
Another day, Another data breach! This time-sensitive and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people at Boys Town National Research Hospital have been exposed in what appears to be the largest ever reported breach by a pediatric care provider or children’s hospital. According to…
Security bug in Swann IoT Camera allowed to access video feeds
Security experts have discovered a security glitch in Swann IoT camera that could be exploited by attackers to access video feeds. Security experts from Pen Test Partners (Andrew Tierney, Chris Wade and Ken Munro) along with security researchers Alan Woodward, Scott Helme and Vangelis Stykas have discovered a security glitch in Swann IoT camera that…
Tens of flaws in Samsung SmartThings Hub expose smart home to attack
Cisco Talos researchers found tens of flaws in Samsung SmartThings Hub controller that potentially expose smart home devices to attack Cisco Talos researchers have discovered 20 vulnerabilities in Samsung SmartThings Hub controller that potentially expose any supported third-party smart home devices to cyber attack. “Cisco Talos…
Decade-old Bluetooth flaw lets hackers steal data passing between devices
Serious error in the wireless protocol also lets hackers tamper with data. A large number of device makers is patching a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth specification that allows attackers to intercept and tamper with data exchanged wirelessly. People who use Bluetooth to connect smartphones,…
Leafminer cyber espionage group targets Middle East
Hackers belonging an Iran-linked APT group tracked as ‘Leafminer’ have targeted government and various organizations in the Middle East. An Iran-linked APT group tracked as ‘Leafminer’ has targeted government and businesses in the Middle. According to the experts from Symantec, the Leafminer group has been active at least since early 2017….
Security expert discovered Kernel Level Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Availability Suite Service component of Oracle Solaris 10 and 11.3
Security researchers from Trustwave have discovered a new high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-2892, that affected the Availability Suite Service component in Oracle Solaris 10 and 11.3. The flaw could be exploited by a remote authenticated attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. “A local…
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