Hacking News

As product launches go, Microsoft’s introduction of Windows 10 S is one of the most baffling I have ever seen. For starters, it appears to be a new edition of Windows, but in the official Windows 10 S FAQ Microsoft bills it as “a specific configuration of Windows 10 Pro,” which isn’t the same thing at […]

Symantec has patched three vulnerabilities in the Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) which could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code. On Wednesday, the cybersecurity firm issued a security advisory warning of the bugs, all of which are specific to the SMG enterprise software. The first issue, CVE-2017-6326, is a high-impact bug. While there are

Phishing, spearphishing, CEO Fraud/Business Email Compromise (BEC) and ransomware represent a group of critical security threats that virtually every organization will encounter at some point – and most already have. While phishing actually started in the 1995-1996 time frame, it became a much more serious problem in the mid-2000s. The logical evolution of phishing –

Hacking attacks against sales terminals have risen by nearly a third last year, and the US is still leading the way in being insecure. Incidents affecting sales tills and payment systems increased to 31 per cent in 2016, according to research by security firm Trustwave, while incidents affecting e-commerce environments fell to 26 per cent

Russian attempts to hack key American election systems are more advanced than first thought, according to Homeland Security officials on Wednesday. In a public hearing into election hacking held by the US Senate Intelligence Committee, the Department of Homeland Security’s acting director of the cyber division, Dr Samuel Liles, claimed that the electoral systems of

What’s old is new again: an exploit protection mechanism for a known flaw in the Linux kernel has fallen to a new attack targeting an old problem. The so-called Stack Clash vulnerability, which was discovered and disclosed by Qualys, affects Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on i386 and amd64 processors. These platforms earlier this

The WannaCry ransomware that claimed hundreds of thousands of victims across 150 countries has hit speed and intersection cameras in Victoria, Radio 3AW has reported. According to the radio station, 55 cameras in the state belonging to vehicle monitoring and enforcement service Redflex were infected with the ransomware after a rogue USB was inserted by

Last week, Microsoft issued a security patch for Windows XP, a 16-year-old operating system that Microsoft officially no longer supports. Last month, Microsoft issued a Windows XP patch for the vulnerability used in WannaCry. Read more

Microsoft said Wednesday it would no longer impose a time limit for its Edge bug bounty program. The Redmond, Wash. based company announced the Edge on Windows Insider Preview (WIP) program in August 2016 as a means to incentivize researchers to find and report vulnerabilities in the browser. Read more

In an example of just how persistent modern cyberthreats can be, automaker Honda Motors had to temporarily stop production at its Sayama plant in Japan this week after being hit by WannaCry, a malware threat the company thought it had mitigated just one month ago. The nearly 48-hour shutdown impacted production of about 1,000 vehicles