Google holds regular competitions to encourage involvement in improving the security of the Chromium project. Contests like Pwnium helps to better patch specific exploits and issues to make Chromium even more secure. This year Pwnium 4 will once again set sights on Chrome OS, and will be hosted in March at the CanSecWest security conference […]
Continue ReadingThe 2013 list of worst passwords, influenced by postings from the Adobe breach, demonstrates the importance of not basing passwords on the application or website being accessed. SplashData has announced its annual list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet. For the first time since SplashData began compiling its annual list, “password” […]
Continue ReadingIn 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 […]
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