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As a general rule of thumb, anything that transmits information to or from your computer is a way hackers can use to get your personal data. That includes things that you probably wouldn’t naturally think of as vulnerable to attack—your wireless mouse, for example. Researchers at China’s Southeast University recently published a study showing that, by tracking the […]

It is estimated that millions of computers contain vulnerabilities in the local BIOS chip which is (Basic Input / Output System) allowing attackers to infect a system permanently and then steal all kinds of data and information. The LegbaCore researchers showed this in a proof of concept last week at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.

Hacking even the most secure data is easier than previously thought. This was evidenced by two researchers at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver last week. The two computer security experts, Xeno Kovah and Corey Kallenberg, exhibited a proof-of-concept, showing hacking BIOS chips, which are microchips containing the firmware of a computer’s motherboard. “The BIOS boots

Social engineering and weaponised USB sticks help the “world’s most famous hacker” to take control of target PCs CeBIT attendees on Thursday fell victims to a series of well-executed hacks. Thankfully, they weren’t malicious in origin; instead, they were live demonstrations by notorious ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick. Though Mitnick’s hacking skills once earned him a spot

NTP amplification fuelling era of super-massive DDoS Some time in December 2014 an unnamed ISP experienced an NTP reflection DDoS attack that peaked at a router-straining 400Gbps, easily the largest denial of service event in Internet history, Arbor Networks’ 10th Annual Infrastructure Report has revealed. It’s an apparently small detail slipped into the firm’s larger

Hotel chain Marriott might find itself in more trouble than its 2014 FCC fine. A senior developer at the XDA Developers Forum has revealed that the chain’s mobile app might have allowed unauthorized people to gain access to private information, including names, addresses, contact numbers and credit card information. Though the app has said to

Unfortunately this video was removed from YouTube. If you find it please share with me. Read this out. Stuart Varney, host of “Varney & Company” on Fox Business Network, was hacked on live television this week by computer security expert and self-described eccentric millionaire John McAfee. Varney asked McAfee to show how he thinks the

After hackers breached its internal network in late October, the White House got the help of a Google security engineer, Parisa Tabriz, the company’s self-proclaimed “security princess.” Tabriz was tapped by the newly founded U.S. Digital Service, a tech task force for the government which launched in August, as a consultant for a “Top Secret /

By Andrea Peterson Social media accounts for two local media outlets were compromised by an individual or group calling itself “CyberCaliphate” on Tuesday. The hacker posted messages in support of the Islamic State, or ISIS. The Albuquerque Journal and Salisbury, Md.-based CBS affiliate WBOC said both their social media accounts were compromised. A black and white