By Fadil Pašić, At this point, I’m starting to think Sony should have pulled The Interview from airing, because the #GOP hackers just keep adding insult to injury. In the most recent turn of events, the hackers leaked a number of emails, including a very embarrassing written conversation between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal […]
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How To Learn Hacking Eric Steven Raymond Table of Contents What Is Hacking? The “hacking” we’ll be talking about in this document is exploratory programming in an open-source environment. If you think “hacking” has anything to do with computer crime or security breaking and came here to learn that, you can go away now. There’s
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Ransom message is similar to police scareware A patching utility against crypto-malware Operation Global III (OG3) has been created, to prevent users from paying the ransom and free their files in a simple and efficient manner. The tool, developed by malware researcher Nathan Scott, takes advantage of the fact that the authors of the threat
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Ashley Feinberg It’s been a rough week for Sony execs (million-dollar salaries notwithstanding). And things are only going to get worse. Which would almost be enough to make you feel bad for the poor schmucks in IT—that is, until you realize that they hid their most sensitive password data under the label “Passwords.” Go ahead
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By Pat Gioko Court documents have revealed that the FBI means business when they say that Apple and Google should decrypt users’ data. The FBI has never been shy about the fact that it hates Apple and Google’s commitment to encrypting files in smartphones and tablets. The emerging court paperwork shows two precedent cases in
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Film studio tells staff not to switch on computers or log on to corporate networks until security breach is investigated The Sony Pictures hack, which has been linked to the premature release of several new films, may have been the handiwork of North Korea, after the country’s officials refused to deny its involvement. The film
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by Pierluigi Paganini Trend Micro has published a new study on black cyber-markets focusing on product and services offered on the Brazilian underground. Trend Micro has published a new interesting report on the underground cyber-markets, this is a third study focused on the Brazilian cyber-underground offer, the previous ones analyzed Russian and Chinese marketplaces. The new
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Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command, told lawmakers yesterday that China and “one or two” other countries are capable of mounting cyberattacks which would paralyze the U.S electric grid and other critical infrastructure systems across the country. A cyberattacks of such scope has been discussed in
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By Andy Dawson Hidden malware has infected computers while researchers believe vaping could also stimulate our natural bacteria E-cigarettes might be better for you than their analogue equivalent, but they could seriously damage the health of your computer. Reports are emerging that some of them have been found to contain malware that has infected their
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New report claims 81% of Tor users can be identified<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://betanews.com/wp-content/plugins/portfolio-slideshow-pro/css/portfolio-slideshow-noscript.css?ver=1.4.5.1″ /> A new report claims that more than 81 percent of Tor users are identifiable using a method that threatens Internet anonymity. The study, titled “On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Anonymity Networks Using Flow Records“, claims that a technique known
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