In the past few weeks, reports from several players in the banking industry have revealed that hackers may have gained entry into the financial system of the Hilton Hotel. The revelations indicate that the customers of the luxury hotel chain and its entities within the United States may have fallen victim to credit card fraud. […]
A mobile app development company has been identified as the perpetrator of distributing malicious applications globally and hacking the Android phones of users on whose devices these apps are installed. The apps grant complete access to the Android devices of the users and the attackers can gain total control over these devices. These malware apps […]
(Image: Lenovo.com) Twice before Lenovo has been caught spying on the users and this is the third time that the company has been found doing the same. Computerworld’s Michael Horowitz has discovered a software installed on Lenovo’s computers. The application is called “Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64” and its primary function is gathering feedback information […]
The Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Defense are analyzing a data breach which has resulted in stealing of around 5.6 million fingerprint records of federal workers. Initial reports put the number at 4.5 million, however the latest report released on Wednesday 23rd September suggests that the number is as high as 5.6 […]
WD My Cloud or Western Digital My Cloud is an efficient Network Attached Storage system. The objective of the WD My Cloud NAS is to provide a cloud storage system for private applications such as home based cloud storage or a small business storage. The data on this private cloud can be accessed by the […]
If you use Google Chrome 45 or any of the older versions, it can crash by simply typing a 16 character URL. The bug was first detected by Andris Atteka who reported it to Google, but he was not rewarded since it is not a security issue but a DOS vulnerability. The issue reported by […]
A malware has always been a major threat to devices, data and user accounts; but the threat increase manifold when a malware is more subtle and deep rooted like the one in an app creation tool! Such threats are real and already exist. XcodeGhost is an example of such malware. The counterfeit Xcode, termed as […]
UT Austin ISO (Information Security Office) has detected a bug in Android 5.x that allows hackers to bypass the locked screen of the phone and access the home screen or other functions of the phone. For the purpose of the attack however the attacker must have physical access to the phone and the screen should […]
Mark Dowd, the head of Australia based Azimuth security has stated that there is a vulnerability in AirDrop, the file sharing service of Apple which allows unauthorized access to the device that can be used for the installation of malware. A user with an AirDrop configuration allowing file sharing with anyone and not merely their […]
A new kind of malware named SUCEFUL capable of stealing information from ATM cards and capable of retaining them in the ATM machines has been detected by FireEye Labs. The malware has been uploaded on VirusTotal and the researchers at FireEyes Labs traced it as Backdoor.ATM.Suceful. It seems that the name of the virus is […]