Researchers have been tracking an ongoing malicious campaign targeting victims in Mexico, with a highly crafted tool built to steal financial information and login credentials for popular websites.
The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for up to a decade if they refuse to unlock their phones.
The country’s Assistance and Access Bill, introduced this week for public consultation, strengthens the penalties for people who refuse to unlock their phones for the police. Under Australia’s existing Crimes Act, judges could jail a person for two years for not handing over their data. The proposed Bill extends that to up to ten years, arguing that the existing penalty wasn’t strong enough.
At the heart of a police operation to defend Britain from attack by cybercriminals, a 14-year-old boy was honing his skills to thwart hackers linked to a rogue state. Ben Abrahmason was among a group who gathered at a military base in Wiltshire on Friday to counter fictional but sophisticated cyber-attacks.
If smart appliances that can be remotely controlled over the internet were to be compromised and used in a botnet, then attackers could cause local power outages or even large-scale blackouts, according to a presentation given by Princeton University researchers at the USENIX Security Symposium.
The U.S. government has reportedly been trying to get Facebook to break the encryption in its Messenger app in an ongoing criminal probe so that the law enforcement agencies can listen to a suspects voice conversations. This has once again sparked the debate about whether or not companies can be forced to change the security parameters of their services to aid surveillance which would help law enforcement close ongoing cases.
At least 25 Android smartphone models – 11 of which are sold by major US carriers – carry vulnerabilities out of the box, making them easy prey for hackers, according to a new study from security researchers.
Researchers from the firm Kryptowire found 38 vulnerabilities in 25 Android phones, according to Wired. They range from being able to lock someone out of their device to gaining unapproved and secret access to the smartphone's microphone.
A spate of hacked Instagram accounts. A $220 million lawsuit against AT&T. A bustling underground crime ring. They all have roots in an old problem that has lately found new urgency: SIM card swaps, a scam in which hackers steal your mobile identity—and use it to upend your life.
It started with a simple wish: Martin Horn, security researcher at Avast, wanted a smart home. As he began his research into systems, he found that many devices included set-up instructions with no security provisions. And then, it got worse.
A teenager is reported to have pleaded guilty to the Children’s Court in Melbourne in relation to allegedly hacking into Apple’s internal systems and downloading 90GB of files.
The teenager cannot be named for legal reasons.
Security researchers have warned that popular password managers are vulnerable to insider attacks due to weaknesses in inter-process communication (IPC).
Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki added that several other applications are also vulnerable to the same vulnerability, which affects password managers and other software across Windows, MacOS and Linux operating systems.
