Talk of airborne, unmanned hacking devices has come to light after an email exchange between a Boeing subsidiary and the Hacking Team, an Italian malware manufacturer, was leaked. The proposed drones would be able to invade Wi-Fi networks and take control of any users on the network.
In light of the breach of the Italian security company known as the Hacking Team, Microsoft has published an urgent security update for Windows in order to patch a dangerous zero-day exploit. The Hacking Team data breach has disclosed a huge number of vulnerabilities, including one for Adobe Flash.
After Facebook’s chief security officer has called for the death of Adobe Flash Player, Mozilla decided to actively block the plugin on Firefox. When it was brought to world’s attention once again that Flash is extremely vulnerable, Mozilla made the decision to block it until there was an Adobe Flash update that addressed security issues.
Although CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware has been around for a while now, we’ve recently seen a surge in the number of PCs infected. Lately, many CryptoWall 3.0 infections have come from malicious spam (malspam) emails and the Angler Exploit Kit, a software package that contains easy-to-use attacks against vulnerabilities in browsers such as Chrome, Internet Explorer…
The latest update to the Google Chrome web browser, version 42, now blocks Java, Silverlight and other plugins. However, not all is lost. As long as you remember to update Java, you can continue to utilize all of Google Chrome’s features. As a security measure, Google has blocked NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) plugins, including Java,…
Spartan. It’s a word that still carries a fair amount of weight despite the fact that the warriors that originally gave the word its’ gravitas have been dead for over 2000 years. Unfortunately, brands have begun to hop on the Spartan bandwagon so we’ve seen everything from Spartan races, Spartan athletic equipment and, now thanks…
Now, if you’re like any normal American you probably don’t know what a CAPTCHA is, but… you’ve probably seen them before. A CAPTCHA (which is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a little program that websites use to determine whether or not the thing visiting their…
Security experts across the globe have been working around the clock to create patches for the Shellshock bug that uncovered 20 years of server vulnerability on systems using Bash. It’s beginning to appear that despite the longstanding claim that Apple products are less susceptible to viruses than PCs, internal bugs are just as easily exploited…
If you thought that Heartbleed was bad, brace yourselves for the server vulnerability that we’re up against now. Last week, a 20-year-old bug was discovered that affects almost all Linux and Mac OS X deployments. You heard that correctly: malware that’s not confined to PCs. The new bug is called Shellshock, and it affects Bash,…
In short, it’s the new “anti-Facebook” that’s creating quite a buzz in digital media. But why is this different from every other time someone claimed to have made the “new Facebook,” and why are people so excited about it?