Unfortunately, it looks like the method is still in effect. Philip Neustrom, the co-founder of Shotwell Labs, lately found two demo websites that would pass account details if you visited from a mobile connection. By simply inserting a zip code and clicking a button, the site would spit out the full name, current location, and […]

Security Researcher Mathy Vanhoef of Imec-DistiNet discovered a weakness within the WPA2 protocol, potentially affecting all the wireless routers supporting WPA2, An attacker can take advantage of this vulnerability by using key re-installation attacks (KRACKS). The attack can be used to intercept passwords, Emails, chat messages and even your credit card Information. Consider if your

Homeland Security is ordering federal agencies to deploy basic web and email security features in an effort to boost cybersecurity across government. Up until now, Homeland Security had been pushing businesses and enterprise customers to enable HTTPS web encryption across the board, which helps secure data in transit but also ensures that nobody can alter the contents

Commercial shipping vessels have such poor cyber security it’s possible to track them down and hack into them via poorly secured communications systems. Ken Munro, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners, who has documented the lapses in security said they are “simply not acceptable”. Many of the problems stem from how ships traditionally ran on

Ex-Premier League players Carlos Tevez, Dirk Kuyt and Gabriel Heinze have been named by hackers Fancy Bears as three of the footballers cleared to use banned medicines at the 2010 World Cup. The trio were among 25 players given therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) during the tournament in South Africa. In its latest leaked documents, the Russian hacking

The IT security researchers at CheckPoint cyber security firm headquartered in Israel and the US has revealed that the recent series of cyber crimes against oil (1), mining (2), construction, and energy sector organizations (3) were perpetrated by a young hacker and not any nation-state sponsored hacker group. It comes as a big surprise considering that the hacking

UTICA, NEW YORK – Obinna Obioha, age 31, and a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today to serve 51 months in prison for operating a fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from businesses in the United States and other countries. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Vadim

Security researchers have devised a way to offer steep discounts or steal goods by hacking vulnerable point-of-sale systems. The researchers at cybersecurity firm ERPScan, which has a commercial stake in the space, found that SAP’s point-of-sale (POS) systems don’t authenticate or check internal commands, allowing anyone with access to the store’s network unrestricted access to

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) disclosed that Nigeria currently ranks third globally in cybercrimes. Nigeria comes behind the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Director General of NCC disclosed this at the ongoing 2017 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Lagos, Nigeria. Mr Danbatta stated that the number of internet users

An obscure Apple kernel extension patched in July in iOS 10.3.3 was originally built without security measures in place, according to the researcher who privately disclosed the flaws. Today at the Hack in the Box security conference in Singapore, Zimperium zLabs’ Adam Donenfeld was scheduled to disclose details on seven flaws he found in the AppleAVEDriver.kext, a