Smartphone users can now add a new entry to the list of things they need to worry about: their phones being compromised via replacement parts. A group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has demonstrated that hardware replacements – e.g. touchscreens, NFC readers, wireless charging controllers, and so on – can be equipped with a chip that is capable of manipulating the device’s...
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DDoS attacks rose again in Q2 for the first time in almost a year as the black hats returned to tried-and-tested tools and techniques including PBot, Mirai and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA), according to Akamai. The cloud delivery provider crunched data collected from over 230,000 servers in more than 1600 networks to compile its State of the Internet/Security Report for Q2 2017.
An editor used by millions of game developers and coding students around the world contains a remote code execution vulnerability in all of its Windows versions on all versions of Windows. The Mac version of the editor is not affected.
Is that music tracking you? Hackers can remotely hijack smart devices and use SONAR to record your every move The CovertBand system can determine the position of objects using sonar It sends out a repeating pulse of sound waves in the 18 to 20 kHz range Devices were hacked to play music with pulses to track someone’s position It uses the device’s built-in microphones to...
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Chrome Extensions are a powerful means of adding functionality to the Chrome browser with features ranging from easier posting of content on social media to integrated developer tools. At the end of July and beginning of August, several Chrome Extensions were compromised after their author’s Google Account credentials were stolen via a phishing scheme. This resulted in hijacking of traffic and exposing users to potentially...
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