By Zach Epstein Just when you thought you were safe, a new hacking toy comes along and rocks your world. Imagine a tool exists that lets hackers pluck encryption keys from your laptop right out of the air. You can’t stop it by connecting to protected Wi-Fi networks or even disabling Wi-Fi completely. Turning off Bluetooth […]
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By Mihaita Bamburic The NSA has released a network security tool that it claims is designed to help organizations “fortify their networks against cyber attacks”. But, after being revealed to be spying on just about anyone it wants to, from US citizens to leaders of allied governments, while undermining major tech firms in the process,
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By Dieter Holger Hacking Team’s situation just got worse. Last Sunday, 400GB of documents, emails and source codes were stolen from the spyware firm and uploaded to the web. And now more than a million of Hacking Team’s emails have been published in a searchable library on WikiLeaks for anyone to scrutinize. The culprits of
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WhatsSpy Public is an web-oriented application that tracks every move on WhatsApp of whoever you like to follow (by only knowing their phonenumber). This application is setup as an Proof of Concept that WhatsApp is broken in terms of privacy. It keeps track of the following activities: Online/Offline status (even with privacy options set
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The most controversial app available for your iPhone and iPad isn’t in the App Store. Popcorn Time let’s users stream pirated TV shows and movies as easily as they would stream Netflix, and has made waves with millions of defiant users, thanks to the virtual middle finger it flips at movie and TV producers. A new free Popcorn Time
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Those using Magento’s e-commerce platform should ensure they’re using its latest software, as attackers are increasingly exploiting a flaw patched two months ago, security companies warned. The vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain complete control over a store with administrator access, potentially allowing credit card theft, wrote Netanel Rubin of Check Point’s Malware and
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When it comes to finding security holes in a company’s information system, people hired to hack into a company’s systems start with what is often the biggest and clearest vulnerability. At the highly technical Infiltrate hacking conference, a professional penetration tester for a major company in Silicon Valley told Business Insider that the easiest way
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Your 1040 is filed, but where is it stored? It’s great that more folks are backing up their files using cloud-based services like Dropbox. While hacker and virus writers get all the headlines, I think hardware failure is really the biggest risk most consumers face. Cloud services have become such a part of the way
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Four Ways Risk Assessment Excel Spreadsheets May Not Help Your Business Mandarin Oriental is the latest big company to see its name added to the list of organizations suffering a data breach via their point-of-sale (POS) systems. The luxury hotel chain confirmed that malware infected their systems—which are still using Windows XP—and that customer credit
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It’s been long gone the days when we had to roll up our sleeves and get our hands on finding vulnerable systems and applications to crack just for the fun of it. Companies now made out a real market of it. Instead of just keeping a high cost maintained software test crew to hunt for
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