Hacking News

A serious flaw in Facebook’s software put counter-terrorism moderators at risk after revealing their personal details to the very people they were monitoring. The bug caused the personal profiles of content moderators to be in displayed in the activity logs of groups where targets were admins. Read more

Microsoft’s Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) platform for detecting cyberattacks can be evaded by attackers to achieve organizational control, a security researcher has discovered. ATA works by reading information from multiple sources: Windows Event Logs, SIEM events, and certain protocols to the Domain Controller. When communication to the Domain Control is done using protocols like Kerberos,

Cloud services revenue is poised to skyrocket from $114 billion in 2016 to $236 billion by 2020, driving the market for products to secure data in the cloud. Read more

A marauding group of threat actors dubbed FIN10 has extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoins from Canadian companies in a cybercrime campaign that appears to have started at least as far back as 2013. Security vendor FireEye on Friday released a report describing the group’s activities and warning about active cyber-extortion campaigns against

The arrival of autonomous vehicles (AV, or self-driving vehicles) on the public highways is getting closer. Just this month (June 2017), Nutonomy announced a partnership with Lyft for R&D on its existing AV testing on the streets of Boston. Lyft announced yesterday that by 2025 it will provide “at least 1 billion rides per year using

Pavel Durov claimed on Twitter on Wednesday that US bureaus made two attempts to bribe his developers while they were on a one-week trip to the US last year. He also insisted that the FBI put pressure on him personally. “During our team’s 1-week stay in the US last year we had two attempts to

For the past several years, anti-piracy Company Rightscorp has been moderately successful in forcing smaller margin ISPs in the United States to collaborate in a low-tier copyright trolling operation. The way it operates is relatively simple. Rightscorp monitors BitTorrent networks, obtains the IP addresses of alleged infringers, and gives DMCA notices to their ISPs. Rightscorp

A UK-based computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of usernames and email addresses from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, broke in and pinched the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system and of about 30,000 satellite phones,

By now, chances are pretty good that you’ve heard of bitcoin, the cryptocurrency unleashed on the world in 2009 by a mysterious person or group that goes by Satoshi Nakamoto. Maybe you’ve heard it’s the currency that fuels massive darknet drug markets like the now-defunct Silk Road. Or maybe your encounter with the cryptocoin was

Since Congress voted to prevent the implementation of new ISP privacy protections there has been a committed and sometimes loud call for new rules. The fear is, without adequate safeguards in place, ISPs will be free to build detailed customer profiles that include names, addresses and online activities. That data can then be sold to,