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Microsoft is attacked using a Windows security bug found by Google
A couple of months ago, a Google researcher named Tavis Ormandy uncovered a severe flaw in Windows and then took it to the web to inform the public. This raised the ire of some (especially Microsoft), because the research didnR...
Google releases security fix for recent Android vulnerability that affected millions of devices
Responding to the recent claim by Bluebox Security indicating that 99% of Android devices are at risk from malware attack due to a security vulnerability, Google has released a fix. Google said that they’ve issued a patch fo...
Android uses code written by NSA
It’s safe to say that the NSA is pretty low on the list of most people’s favorite government organizations these days (if people even make lists like that), but recent reports are also calling into question Google̵...
Sometime in the future you may be able to replace your passwords with thoughts
If you are like me then at some point you have forgotten one(or more) of your passwords. Even if you didn’t forget, passwords can still be vulnerable if strong ones aren’t created. What if you could log in to your acco...
99% of Android devices at risk of malware due to vulnerability
Bluebox Security, a relatively unknown mobile security startup, recently made a big name for itself by uncovering a huge four-year-old point of vulnerability in Android’s security model that has put almost 900 million Androi...
Microsoft reveals two viruses that avoid removal by regularly downloading updated versions of each other
Recent research carried out by Microsoft has showed that a combination of two viruses, Vobfus and Beebone, is proving quite difficult to remove from infected Windows PCs. Like other typical malware, these two offers data thieves t...
Destructive malware targets government and media networks in South Korea
A new malicious data wiper program dubbed Trojan.Korhigh by Symantec containing similar functionality to another piece of malware, which took the networks of several South Korean companies offline in a matter of hours back in Marc...
Ubisoft user database hacked, change your password now
The database of popular video game developer, Ubisoft, was recently accessed illegally by some hackers. Said database contains email addresses and passwords of Ubisoft users. According to Ubisoft, some hackers were able to use ...
Researcher finds major security weakness in Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers, but Microsoft is not worried
A vulnerability in both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers can trick you into executing malicious code on your copmuter, says an independent researcher. According to Rosario Valotta, who presented the malicious...
Facebook bug exposed contact information for 6 million of its users
One of Facebook’s archival features has accidentally exposed the contact information of around 6 million of its users. This includes email addresses and phone numbers that users may or may not have wanted shared with all the...
Chinese hackers have resumed cyberattacks on the US
Remember all that hubbub over China hacking US companies a few months ago? It looks like they’re back at it. Surprisingly, the attacks have not only resumed but are originating from the same source — Unit 61398 in Shan...
Alleged Chinese spy’s laptop found to contain porn and pirated movies, not classified information from NASA
Bo Jiang used to work for NASA. He was let go by his employer because congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia claimed that he and other Chinese engineers were a security risk. This was a statement in a press release issued by the congr...
13-year-old Alaskan middle school students hack classroom computers by using phishing on their teachers
In Ketchikan, Alaska a group of 18 students (aged 12 to 13 years) attending Schoenbar Middle School were able to hack into various computers after exploiting teachers to gain admin access. After taking control of various computers...
FBI wants backdoor wiretapping access to Google, Facebook, and other popular websites
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act in the United State allows law enforcement to wiretap internet communications, like VoIP (typically a warrant is needed for such wiretaps but there are so many “national ...