Over the past few months, a cluster of megabreaches has dumped account credentials for a mind-boggling 642 million accounts into the public domain, where they can then be used to compromise other accounts that are protected by the same password. Now, there's software that can streamline this vicious cycle by testing for reused passcodes on Facebook and other popular sites.
We're in the midst of a major change sweeping the Web: the familiar HTTP prefix is rapidly being replaced by HTTPS. That extra "S" in an HTTPS URL means your connection is secure and that it's much harder for anyone else to see what you're doing. And on today's Web, everyone wants to see what you're doing.
Pokemon Go has quickly taken over the lives and towns of countless players since it started rolling out last week, but it could also literally take over your digital life. Multiple players, including myself, have discovered that signing into the game on iOS via Google grants Pokemon Go full access to your account.
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most popular of these networks — Tor — has prompted computer scientists to try to come up with more secure anonymity schemes.
It’s very easy to download an Android app that’s otherwise not available in your region. One can easily find .apk files of Android apps online but the thing about downloading Android apps from unofficial sources is that they can often be compromised. The popular Pokemon Go game has been released in stages and people with nefarious designs have taken advantage of that fact by spreading .apks of the game which will aid hackers in stealing information and files from players’ phones.
After a person claiming to be a security researcher “declared war on the Baton Rouge police” and took credit for the data breach after the shooting death of Alton Sterling, he took aim at Amazon.
In a Twitter direct message, hacker @0x2Taylor told Mic the he and a buddy “’breached a server’ owned by Amazon that contained database files with more than 80,000 Kindle users’ information.”
Popular fast food chain Wendy’s has revealed more information about the security breach it confirmed earlier this year. Back in February, Wendy’s said that it was investigating a potential security breach and it confirmed by May this year that malware had been found on its point-of-sale systems which was used to steal credit card information. In its latest update on the matter, the franchise reveals that more than 1,000 Wendy’s locations have been hit by this credit card breach.
It feels a bit ironic when you’re the CEO of a microblogging network and it’s your account that ends up getting hacked because you of all people should know better. This slightly embarrassing situation was faced by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after his official Twitter account was briefly compromised by hacking collective OurMine. This group of hackers has already compromised quite a few high-profile Twitter accounts recently but this is perhaps the most embarrassing yet for Twitter itself.
Academic researchers have proven that sensors in wearable electronics can be exploited to secretly measure minute movements in users' arms in an effort to decipher passwords and PIN codes typed into computers, ATM machines and other devices.
This talk will describe first the landscape of side channel vulnerabilities, the types which are possible given different virtualization circumstances, and the basic primitives of an side-channel attack. This survey will contrast against the specific exploitation of the cloud based environment.
