A Pittsburgh judge sentenced a malware dev to two years probation and no prison time for his involvement with a spam botnet. The man in question is Sean Tiernan, 29, of Santa Clara, California, and the FBI says he was in control of a botnet made up of over 77,000 computers infected with malware that […]

A bug discovered in WordPress allows attackers to trigger an SQL injection attack leading to be complete website hijacking. The vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress content management system (CMS) versions 4.8.2 and below. On Tuesday, WordPress announced the launch of version 4.8.3 as a security release which mitigates the security flaw. Read more

Passwords aren’t perfect — anyone who’s had to reset them after a data breach can tell you that. But neither are biometrics, and every other “password killer” has largely fallen flat. Read more

Cisco Talos researchers have discovered 23 vulnerabilities in Circle with Disney monitoring software which could be used to hijack full families of devices. Circle with Disney is touted as “the smart way for families to manage content and time online, on any device.” The $99 Android and iOS-compatible product pairs wirelessly and can be used

Tech giants Facebook, Google, and Twitter testified for the first time to senators on Tuesday as part of an ongoing congressional investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Representatives from the three tech titans spoke to what they know about alleged Russian interference using their platforms to buy ads, promote stories, and spread misinformation

Most network protocols were not designed with security in mind. An attacker can generate abnormal network packets that do not follow the expected format and purpose of the protocol, with the result that the attacker is able to either hack a remote host or network, or compromise a confidential network data stream. Read more  

This advanced threat has been declared as the Reaper botnet and performs other attacks look childish. Mira worked by affecting unsecured devices with default passwords to add them to the botnet. The Reaper runs by actively hacking and infiltrating millions of devices throughout the globe. News described it as “the contrast between checking for open doors and actively picking

Researchers identified a new ransomware family called Magniber that uniquely targets only users in South Korea and the Asia-Pacific regions. The ransomware is primarily being distributed by the Magnitude exploit kit, a primary distribution vehicle in the past for Cerber ransomware. Because of Magniber’s close affiliation to both the Magnitude EK and and Cerber, researchers

Hackers are rushing to exploit a zero-day Flash vulnerability to plant surveillance software before organisations have time to update their systems to patch the weakness. Uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab on Monday, the CVE-2017-11292 Adobe Flash vulnerability allows attackers to deploy a vulnerability which can lead to code execution on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS systems. The exploit

There were questions from Chase Bank about an applying for a credit card that someone was attempting to open in his name. Mifflin, who exists in San Antonio, says he called the bank and was told the identity thieves have my Social Security number. He set up fraud warnings with the three major credit recording