Hacking News

Uber believes its massive data breach, which has compromised 57 million global accounts, is not linked to a recent spate of unauthorised transactions reported by customers in Singapore. Read more

Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected to the internet, a Quartz investigation has revealed. Read more

The final version of the 2017 OWASP Top 10 has been released on Monday and some kinds of vulnerabilities that are not serious have been substituted with vulnerabilities that are more expected to pose a significant threat. Read more

Miscreants, hackers – call ’em what you will – have pilfered email addresses from an unknown number of Loake Shoes customers.In a letter sent to punters on its database – seen by The Register – the premium footwear maker said it has been “the victim of a cyber attack”. Read more

The United States’ Department of Justice has identified a suspect in July’s attack on Home Box Office, naming an Iranian national, Behzad Mesri, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, November 21. Read more

Uber suffered a large-scale cyberattack in October of 2016 that exposed the confidential data of 57 million customers and drivers, the company disclosed today in a statement following a damning Bloomberg report. Read more

Thanks to an investigation by third-party researchers into Intel’s hidden firmware in certain chips, Intel decided to audit its firmware and on Monday confirmed it had found 11 severe bugs that affect millions of computers and servers. Read more

Sysadmins have been advised to watch for a coming HP printer firmware update that will plug a remote code execution vulnerability (among others) in its MFP-586 and the M553 printers. Read more

Google made many efforts to make the Play Store away from malicious apps, but some apps were able to fool the anti-malware protections and infect users with malware. Read more