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Researchers demonstrate SD memory card hacking
Security researchers Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross have demonstrated that the only way to be absolutely sure that no one will be able to …
4.6M Snapchat users’ info compromised in breach
It took just a week for someone to take advantage of the full disclosure of several (at the time) unpatched Snapchat vulnerabilities, and the result is a published list of 4.6 …
BitTorrent introduces secure, serverless messaging system
Back in September, the company behind the BitTorrent P2P protocol and the BitTorrent and μTorrent file-sharing software announced that they have started working on …
ZeroAccess botnet down for good?
When Microsoft and various law enforcement agencies around the world disrupted the ZeroAccess botnet at the beginning of December, they did not expect to fully eliminate it. …
Fake Adobe “licence key delivery” emails carry malware
A clever malware distribution campaign is currently doing rounds, taking the form of emails purportedly delivering licence keys for a number of Adobe’s software …
Bomb-threatening student caught because he used Tor on school Wi-Fi
20-year-old Harvard student Eldo Kim has been accused of sending fake bomb threats to Harvard University on Monday. What makes this case interesting is that he used the Tor …
MacBook webcam indicator light can be disabled to aid spying
Two researchers from Johns Hopkins University have proved, without a doubt, that it is possible to activate internal iSight webcams included in some legacy Apple machines …
OpenX / Revive Adserver zero-day actively exploited in the wild
A zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to gain back-end access to popular open-source advertising server OpenX Source has been discovered by Florian Sander, founder of …
Obama panel advises big changes to NSA surveillance practices
The “independent” Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies ordered to be created by US president Barack Obama in August has finally delivered …
Target breach affects millions who shopped at their stores
US retail giant Target is investigating a security breach that could turn out to be one of the biggest ever, involving compromised payment card information of millions of its …
India set to escalate Internet surveillance
The Indian government is all but set to launch Netra (Network Traffic Analysis), a surveillance system capable of analysing online communication in near real-time and …
DDoS botnet spreading on Linux and Windows machines
A blended DDoS botnet consisting of both Windows and Linux machines has been detected by researchers working with the Polish CERT. The botnet is exclusively dedicated to …
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