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DDoS Botnet Strategy: Rise Of The Appliances!

Remember those early carefree days of the Internet? Dial-up modems? Funny Flash animated videos? Really cruddy looking websites? Gone, gone, gone; along with any sense of security or privacy you might have...

Cellebrite digital forensics tools leaked online by a reseller

The firmware used by the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was leaked online by one of its resellers, the McSira Professional Solutions. Do you know Cellebrite? It is an Israeli firm that...

Inside the Gootkit C&C server

The Gootkit bot is one of those types of malicious program that rarely attracts much attention from researchers. The reason is its limited propagation and a lack of distinguishing features. There are...

Profile of a Hacker

As the hacktivist community continues to grow and evolve, so do the tools and services at a hacker’s disposal. The digital divide between skilled and amateur hackers continues to grow. This...

Pwn2Own 2016 – Keen Team won $215k by hacking Nexus 6p and iPhone 6S

Tencent Team Keen won $215k at PWN2OWN Mobile by hacking Nexus 6p and using two exploits for the iPhone iOS 10.1 … all in just 5 minutes each round. Yesterday I was...

Domain Hijacking – An Invisible and Destructive Threat We Should Watch For

The Morphus Labs warns about another major threat, the domain hijacking incident, a threat that can completely subvert your information security strategy. The Morphus Labs warns this week about another major threat....

Two Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in Joomla 3.6.4. Update it asap!

Joomla has released the new version Joomla 3.6.4 that fixes two critical account creation vulnerabilities affecting the popular CMS. Recently we discussed cyber attacks in the wild leveraging on compromised websites running...

Tweet with Dr. Kenneth Geers during National Cyber Security Awareness Month

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 26 days, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the United States. Started in 2004, this is an...

Upgrade your iPhone to iOS 10.1 or you can get hacked by opening a...

Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG may lead to arbitrary code execution, a boobytrapped JPEG could compromise your iPhone. Upgrade to iOS 10.1 Even a simple action such as looking a JPEG image or opening...

Rise of the Machines: How IoT broke the Internet, and the day after tomorrow

If you are reading this, you are back on Twitter, listening to your favorite music on Spotify, watching Netflix and you can finally breathe! Yes, the massive DDoS attack targeting Dyn’s DNS...