Malware, Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
August 1, 2018
Via: Dark ReadingAnalysis exposes the lengths malware authors will go to in order to protect their code from disassembly and reverse engineering. A malware sample that had code in all the wrong places piqued Maddie Stone’s curiosity. So she dug into the […]
November 9, 2017
Via: Security WeekBucharest – DefCamp 2017- Intrusion detection system (IDS) signatures can be used as an evasion technique to bypass the IDS itself, a security researcher claims. During a presentation at the DefCamp 2017 security conference in Bucharest, Romania, Kirill Shipulin, a […]
Network security, Vulnerabilities
December 21, 2016
Via: Security WeekIOActive has disclosed several vulnerabilities found in Panasonic Avionics in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems and warned that such security holes could, under certain circumstances, pose a serious risk to an aircraft. Panasonic Avionics is one of the world’s largest suppliers of […]
December 14, 2016
Via: SoftpediaRemote code execution flaws found in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux could allow an attacker to obtain root privileges, and a security researcher says that it’s all possible by simply tricking the app to use malicious update servers. Andrew Fasano […]
Email security, Vulnerabilities
December 12, 2016
Via: Softpediaahoo Mail can hardly be considered a secure email service after the parent company experienced a massive breach exposing 500 million accounts in 2014 but decided to keep it secret, and yet, every new vulnerability is still worrying for its […]
November 22, 2016
Via: Help Net SecurityMalware spreading via Facebook has become a rare occurrence, but it does still occasionally crop up. The latest instance has been noticed by malware researcher Bart Blaze, and takes the form of image files (.svg files, to be exact) that […]
July 5, 2016
Via: Security WeekA researcher has discovered a zero-day firmware vulnerability that can be exploited by malicious hackers to disable security features on Lenovo, HP and likely other PCs. Researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk revealed last week that he had identified a privilege escalation vulnerability […]
September 1, 2015
Via: cyber-crimeA cyber espionage group likely out of #iran turned the tables on a #security #researcher who may have gotten a little too close to its operation: the attackers posed as the researcher in a spear-phishing email. The researcher, from ClearSky, […]
July 13, 2015
Via: vulnerabilitiesIt didn’t take Jordan Wiens very long to find a vulnerability in United Airlines’ network, but the payoff was one million free air miles for about six hours of work. A vulnerability researcher from Florida, Wiens was the first recipient […]
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