All Twitter Passwords Exposed, Change Your Password Now
Twitter shot itself in the foot recently but is working hard to get out in front of the problem. According to a recent blog post, the company experienced an issue with its hashing routine - …
Some VW and Audi Cars May Be Hacked Through WiFi
Thanks to researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade (who work at the Dutch cyber-security firm Computest), newly produced Golf GTE and Audi A3 vehicles are a little bit safer, and a lot less vulnerable to …
Use Caution Traveling, Hackers Now Have Keys To Hotel Rooms
Score one for the good guys, but with hesitation. Unfortunately, in today's fast-moving digital world, even a victory doesn't mean the end of a problem. Recently, a pair of researchers (Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen …
Hackers Can Use PDF Files To Access Windows Credentials
Security researcher Assaf Baharav from Check Point Security has discovered a new twist on an old, fairly well-known attack. He was able to essentially "weaponize" PDFs to steal Windows credentials stored in NTLM hashes. Unfortunately, …
WiFi Sync on iOS Vulnerable To TrustJacking
Owners of Apple devices have a new attack vector to worry about, called "TrustJacking." Symantec researchers recently stumbled across a pair of scenarios that take advantage of Wi-Fi syncing of various Apple devices. These are …
Information On 48 Million People Leaked Through Massive File
File this one away under self-inflicted wounds. It has recently come to light that a company called LocalBox left a massive data file vulnerable on a cloud server. The data file was more than a …
New Malware Takes Screenshots and Steals Your Passwords
Recently, a new strain of malware called "SquirtDanger" has been found by researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and it's a particularly nasty one for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, the owner …
Bank Employee Steals Info On Over A Million Customers
Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank is the 12th largest bank in the US. They have a major problem, and so do roughly a million and a half of its customers. According to CEO William Rogers, an unidentified …
Researchers Find Major Vulnerabilities In Banking Apps
Do you do your banking online? If so, there's bad news in the form of a report recently released by the security firm "Positive Technologies." The company tested a variety of websites using a …
Major Server Ring Distributing Malware Taken Down
Score one for the good guys. A researcher from BrilliantIT was recently able to figure out how infected computers would connect to EITest's command and control server, and using that information, was able to bring …
