Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But... read more
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Watch Hackers Take Over a Segway With Someone On It
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2017-07-20 02:55
When you imagine riding a Segway MiniPro electric scooter, your biggest concern is probably falling on your face. Much lower on that list? The notion that attackers could remotely hack your ride, make it stop short, or even drive you into traffic. Unfortunately, as one reacher found, they could have done just that.
The future of macOS security: Baked-in protection and third-party tools
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2017-07-18 01:18
Anyone in the information security industry who’s interested in Mac security probably knows who Patrick Wardle is. Apart from being Chief Security Researcher at Synack, he’s also the creator of a number of security tools for macOS, which he makes available for free on his Objective-See project site.
SAP Patches High-Risk Flaws in SAP POS, Host Agent
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-07-14 15:29
L33tdawg: Check out the demo live at #HITBGSEC next month :)
SAP fixed 23 vulnerabilities across roughly a dozen products on Tuesday, including a series of high-risk flaws that could allow an attacker to gain access to SAP POS, the company’s client/server point-of-sale (PoS) solution.
Yet another massive Bitcoin exchange has been hacked
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2017-07-05 23:50
Digital currencies like Bitcoin are very hot right now, and hackers are apparently looking to take advantage of that, as one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world was just hacked.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surged in the past few months, which explains why people with malicious intentions would be looking to steal this precious virtual coin.
Malware in encrypted traffic uncovered with machine learning
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-06-23 01:14
Detecting malware activity in encrypted traffic was thought to be an impossible task, but machine learning appears to have led to a working technique.
