The Solutionary Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) Threat Intelligence Report for Q4 2013 contains research focused on the distribution and analysis of malware. The report highlights that Unites States is the biggest hoster of malware in the world , Godaddy.com , Google and Amazon cloud leading the list of infections. Report highlights the following points : […]
With the rise of Bitcoin media publicity, fraudsters are finding new ways to get their share of piece of it. Recently mass targeted scam/phishing email is being delivered to users email addresses whose might have been scraped from popular Bitcoin sites or stolen in security breaches: As per Logrhythm security researchers, […]
Microsoft twitter handle got hacked again by the Syrian Electronic Arm yesterday. While Microsoft is still recovering from its past weeks hack , they are thrown under the bus with a new hack again. Its pity that Microsoft being the leader in digital crime prevention has not taken any steps after the previous hack to […] NETRA means eye in “Hindi” language, will be soon launched by the Indian government for monitoring the internet traffic entering and leaving the country. NETRA will be Indian Intelligence for internet surveillance equivalent to PRISM in the US or GCHQ in the UK. Indian Center of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a lab branched under Department of […] Apple’s Iphone is one of the hottest device for most people around the world. As cool as it gets, recent leaked document shared by Der Spiegel shows that a piece of NSA spyware called DROPOUTJEEP can access everything on your iPhone. Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum also described DROPOUTJEEP in a presentation at the 30c3 conference on Monday. […] Recently we published an article of Snapchat vulnerability which was not patched and this was on the news for a while. With start of 2014, hackers targeted Snapchat and exposed 4.6M phone numbers and usernames online at snapchatdb.info. If you are one of them then you may check at http://lookup.gibsonsec.org/ SnapchatDB, an unofficial site run by […] Its not even 24 hours after celebration of New Year and hackers have taken a toll on Microsoft’s Skype social platforms demanding to stop spying. Syrian Electronic Army posted numerous twitters messages before skype took control of its accounts. The tweet said “Don’t use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the […] Snapshot is one of the most popular app for Android and IoS has ignored the security issue which puts its uses at risk as per Znet media Snapchat ignored a security vulnerability reported by Gibson security, a Australian researcher since last August has triggered a huge risk at this point. “Exploits of Snapchat’s API allows […] Customers who shopped at Target between Nov 27th and Dec 15th may have to keep checking their card or debit cards statements often to make sure they are not target of a massive data breach. The details of this data breach is not yet known but as per many sources US Secret service has been […] A security pen tester from Germany @secalert discovered remote code execution vulnerability on ebay website. As per David Vieira-Kurtz blog , “I found a controller which was prone to remote-code-execution due to a type-cast issue in combination with complex curly syntax. ” David exploited the RCE flaw on ebay.com website and displayed output of phpinfo() […]