New Kirk Ransomware Uses Star Trek As Its Theme
Who says hackers don’t have a flair for style? Security searchers at Avast, makers of a popular antivirus software, have stumbled across a new strain of ransomware that utilizes a Star Trek ...
Hacker Releases Source Code Online, Banking May Come Under Attack
If you haven’t heard of the Trojan called “Nuclear Bot,” you probably will have the dubious honor of seeing it in action soon. Its author just released the source code on the ...
Attack On Health Firm Speaks To Real Threat For Everyone
On March 22, Urology Austin became the second medical company to suffer from a major breach. It was a particularly nasty one, combining data theft with a ransomware attack that impacted more ...
LastPass Vulnerability May Have Exposed Passwords On Certain Browsers
Tavis Ormandy is either the first, or the last person on the planet you ever want to get an email from, depending on your point of view. As Google’s best, most prolific ...
Bot Activity Is Running Rampant On The Internet
Just how bad it bot activity on the net? How much traffic is generated by bots, and how big of a problem is that for business owners? The answers will surprise and ...
Ransomware Attackers Are Setting Their Sights On Small Businesses
Do you think your business is safe from a ransomware attack? It isn’t. This was indeed the case that when ransomware first burst onto the scene. Hackers were targeting very large institutions, ...
Popular Browser Toolbar May Contain Malware
Ask.com is one of the internet’s oldest properties. It is not as well-known as the titans of the web (Google, Yahoo, etc.) but almost everyone who has spent any time at all ...
Google’s Updated reCAPTCHA Service May Require No Clicking
Nobody likes CAPTCHAs. They’re annoying. They slow you down when you’re trying to log into a site that has data you need. Unfortunately, CAPTCHAs themselves proved necessary to help weed out bots ...
Flaw May Have Allowed Hacker Control Of Your WhatsApp Account
The security company Checkpoint recently found a critical security flaw in both the Whatsapp and Telegram services that could have spelled big trouble for their users. Fortunately, it has already been patched ...
Lip Reading Technology May One Day Replace Traditional Typed Passwords
There’s a new technology being developed by researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) that stands to be a game-changer. Dubbed “lip password,” the new tech utilizes machine learning to recognize lip motion, shape and texture for each user when ...
