In August 2013, 4 million infected computers woke up and waited instructions from their master. The pathogen was Sefnit, a nasty bit of malware that makes infected computers mine bitcoins. Once the computers woke up, they worked under the command of Ukranian and Israeli hackers named Scorpion and Dekadent. The malware communicated with the two […]
Continue ReadingLast year on January 11, a 26-year-old, young hacker, Reddit co-founder and the digital Activist, Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide. He found dead in his Brooklyn, New York apartment, where he had hanged himself. Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2011, accused of hacking the MIT JSTOR database and stealing over […]
Continue ReadingA trio of scientists have verified that results they first presented nearly 10 years ago are in fact valid, proving that they can extract a 4096-bit RSA key from a laptop using an acoustic side-channel attack that enables them to record the noise coming from the laptop during decryption, using a smartphone placed nearby. The […]
Continue ReadingA German Security researcher has demonstrated a critical vulnerability on Ebay website. He found a controller which was prone to remote-code-execution due to a type-cast issue in combination with complex curly syntax. In a demo video, he exploited this RCE flaw on EBay website, and managed to display output of phpinfo() PHP function on the […]
Continue ReadingIn March 2013, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented ferocity was launched against the servers of Spamhaus, an international non-profit dedicated to battling spam. The March Spamhaus attack peaked at 300 gigabits per second, Spamhaus CEO Steve Linford told the BBC at the time – the largest ever recorded, with enough force […]
Continue ReadingThere’s a vulnerability that affects WebView control in Android applications installed on Android devices running versions older than 4.2. This vulnerability makes a large number of Android applications act as a hacker pipeline into user’s devices and provides a way to install malicious software, send SMSs and more. WebView allows the user to view a […]
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