The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’
Two days before France’s recent presidential election, hackers leaked nine gigabytes of emails from candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign onto the web. Since […]
Tag: cybersecurity
The US Takes On the World in NATO’s Cyber War Games
Last year, Capt. Sean Ruddy and his team of operator-soldiers from the US Cyber Brigade entered a Locked Shields, a NATO-organized cyber-defense […]
Devastating ‘Dirty Frag’ exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo broken
Here’s a question for the systems administrators in the crowd: what’s better than one instant-root™️Linux vulnerability that affects most every system since […]
Blockchain-assisted cyberattacks surge fivefold, driven by Iranian and North Korean state actors, Russia-linked groups
Blockchain-assisted cyberattacks have risen more than fivefold since last year, driven largely by North Korean and Iranian nation-state actors and Russian-speaking criminal […]
Canadian YouTuber builds ‘Flock-like’ camera to exclusively track police vehicles
A YouTuber has received an unexpected visit from the police over an automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) camera he built to specifically […]
North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location
A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security […]
Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks
A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside revealed a series of weaknesses in existing Wi-Fi security, allowing them to […]
Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does
Click To Pray, the official prayer app of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, was found to have zero security by a security […]
Invisible malicious code attacks 151 GitHub repos and VS Code — Glassworm attack uses blockchain to steal tokens, credentials, and secrets
Researchers at Aikido Security reported on Friday that they had found at least 151 GitHub repositories compromised by a threat actor tracked […]
White House authorizes private companies to launch ‘hack-back’ cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on August 12 establishing the first U.S. program that lets vetted private companies conduct offensive […]