Security
FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
- The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot…
Bug on T-Mobile's website left customer data unprotected
- For the second time this week, a company has been found to have accidentally exposed customer data…
New speculative-execution vulnerability strikes AMD, ARM, and Intel
- L33tdawg: Sounds a bit like this talk that's up for voting at HITBGSEC in Singapore
A new attack…
How to Create a Fake PDF Trojan with AppleScript
- While hackers have taken advantage of numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe's products to deliver…
Website leaked real-time location of most US cell phones to almost anyone
- A little-known service has been leaking the real-time locations of US cell phone users to anyone…
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Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted e-mails. Uninstall now
- The Internet’s two most widely used methods for encrypting e-mail--PGP and S/Mime--are vulnerable… -
Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers
- Sierra Wireless has patched two critical vulnerabilities for its range of wireless gateways that… -
May Patch Tuesday Fixes Two Bugs Under Active Attack
- Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday fixes include two critical remote code-execution vulnerabilities,…
Microsoft
May Patch Tuesday Fixes Two Bugs Under Active Attack
- Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday fixes include two critical remote code-execution vulnerabilities,…
Bad guys have something new to play with! Microsoft Excel adds support for JavaScript
- Microsoft has launched some new features in its Excel spreadsheet software that will boost its…
How to force Windows 10 to download the April 2018 Update
- Microsoft today started to push out the free Windows 10 April 2018 Update. As always, this will be…
The promised Cortana-Alexa integration is getting closer
- Since Microsoft and Amazon announced plans to integrate their respective personal digital…
Even Windows revenue is up in Microsoft’s $26.8 billion 3Q18
- Microsoft has posted the results of the third quarter of its 2018 financial year, running up until…
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Microsoft makes more AI programming interfaces available to developers
- Microsoft is continuing to roll out more application programming interfaces (APIs), which enable… -
Google's Project Zero discloses 'important' security vulnerability in Windows 10
- Google's Project Zero team has disclosed another Windows 10 security flaw after Microsoft failed to… -
Hacker investigating Windows 10 for ARM for the Lumia 950
- The project to run Windows 8 RT on the Lumia 640 XL has been progressing really well, but in many…
HITB
Industry CMO on the Downstream Risks of "Logo Disclosures"
- Jennifer Leggio, chief marketing officer at Flashpoint, is an executive with more than a decade's…
How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You
- Google has long struggled with how best to get dozens of Android smartphone manufacturers—and…
JPMorgan’s Blockchain Chief Amber Baldet Steps Down for Her Own Project
- L33tdawg: Excited to see Amber's closing keynote at #HITB2018AMS next week!
As soon as the episode…
Establishing covert communication channels by abusing GSM AT commands
- Security research often starts as a hobby project, and Alfonso Muñoz’s and Jorge Cuadrado’s probe…
#HITB2018AMS Ethereum-taal Solidity: toegankelijk maar complex
- In een presentatie op Hack in the Box in Amsterdam demonstreert beveiligingsonderzoekers Bernhard…
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New attack against intelligent buildings that use KNX and Zigbee networks on show at #HITB2018AMS
- A great many of us are living, staying or working in “smart” buildings, relying on automated… -
Hacking Intelligent Buildings and a Journey into a Modern Private Hospital at #HITB2018AMS
- Amsterdam – 24 March 2018: The Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) is at the forefront of smart… -
Applying AI to User Behavior Security Analytics & Threat Intelligence at #HITB2018AMS
- Amsterdam – 19 March 2018: User behavior analytics (UBA) solutions typically applies machine…
Apple
Court docs show Apple knew about the bendiness of the iPhone 6, 6 Plus
- Newly released court documents reveal just how much Apple apparently knew about the iPhone 6's and…
Apple to live stream WWDC 2018 keynote on June 4
- Announced in an update to its official WWDC 2018 webpage on Tuesday, the livestream is slated begin…
How to Create a Fake PDF Trojan with AppleScript
- While hackers have taken advantage of numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe's products to deliver…
IPv6 growth is slowing and no one knows why
- Stop us if you've heard this one before: the rollout of IPv6 is going slower than expected.
In fact…
Apple cracks down on CallKit-enabled apps in China’s App Store
- A new group of apps in China's App Store is facing scrutiny from Apple. According to a report from…
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Apple: All app updates must support the iPhone X and iOS 11 come July
- Apple posted a note to developers this week saying that, soon, all new app updates in the iOS App… -
Apple meets with California DMV officials to discuss autonomous vehicles
- Documents acquired by macReports through a public information request show at least six DMV… -
HomeKit: Sicherheitsforscher sieht grundlegende Lücke – Apple ergreift Gegenmaßnahmen
- Manipulierte Smart-Home-Geräte mit Apple-Chip können den Schlüssel zum WLAN des Nutzers preisgeben…
Linux
10 commands every Linux user should know
- You may think you're new to Linux, but you're really not. There are 3.74 billion global internet…
Linus Torvalds slams CTS Labs over AMD vulnerability report
- CTS Labs, a heretofore unknown Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, has claimed it's found over a…
5 Linux Tools to Help Recover Data from Corrupted Drives
- Did your screen just turn black or your laptop freeze without warning? Maybe your hard drive has…
The best Linux distro for privacy and security in 2018
- The awesome operating system Linux is free and open source. As such, there are thousands of…
How To Tell If Your Linux Server Has Been Compromised
- A server being compromised or hacked for the purpose of this guide is an unauthorized person or bot…
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Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem
- Canonical has temporarily pulled the download links for Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" from the… -
Code-execution flaws threaten users of routers, Linux, and other OSes
- Google researchers have discovered at least three software bugs in a widely used software package… -
Cronopete – An Apple’s Time Machine Clone For Linux
- If you use Mac OS, you certainly have known about or used Time machine. It is a backup software…
Scitech
This futuristic pill senses signs of disease inside the body, then sends a wireless alert to a phone
- In the 1966 science fiction classic "Fantastic Voyage," a submarine crew is miniaturized so it can…
Asteroid orbiting the wrong way outed as an 'alien'
- An asteroid lurking near the orbit of Jupiter is the first known immigrant from beyond our solar…
Could You Upload Your Brain?
- What would it take to make a copy of your brain?
With the days of blurry mimeographs behind us and…
Stephen Hawking, legendary theoretical physicist, dies at 76
- Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, has passed away at…
Can Machine Learning Find Medical Meaning in a Mess of Genes?
- “We don’t have much ground truth in biology.” According to Barbara Engelhardt, a computer scientist…
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5 Linux Tools to Help Recover Data from Corrupted Drives
- Did your screen just turn black or your laptop freeze without warning? Maybe your hard drive has… -
The Moon is Getting 4G Coverage
- The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from… -
Why you should read and train to boost your brain
- The brain can take over functions of injured parts of the brain. It can create new neural pathways…
