Vietnamese activists and bloggers received a lump of coal this Christmas. The Army of the South East Asian country announced its latest plans to try and stop online dissent. A new cyber unit was announced to be created featuring 10,000 staff geared towards trawling the internet and social media in a
Researchers based at Princeton University and Purdue University have released research detailing how they conducted acoustic attacks on four Western Digital branded hard drives. These attacks could be used to create both a temporary or permanent denial-of-service (DoS) attack. In the examples provid
For large sections of the world, Christmas and New Year are times of goodwill towards others. It appears hackers never got that memo which meant security researchers were also deprived of a day off. News of a vulnerability affecting a web server that's been embedded in hundreds of thousands of IoT (
As 2017 draws to its inevitable close the year has seen a number of trends develop. Amongst ransomware’s perpetual rise and crypto jackers, one of this year’s greatest talking points is the leaking of private data. Whether this is due to hackers abusing exploits or purely human error it can have maj
Researchers at F5 Networks have been analyzing and monitoring an advanced and aggressive malware campaign. They have termed the campaign Zealot, the name derives from one of the files dropped on targeted servers called zealot.zip. Currently, it appears as only Linux and Microsoft servers are been ta
A team of three researchers has dusted off an old crypto vulnerability that can still affect major firms relying on RSA encryption key exchanges. Once the vulnerability is exploited it could enable an attacker to obtain the private encryption key necessary to decrypt sensitive HTTPS traffic under ce
Much of the news in the financial sectors related to Bitcoin’s surge in value. With one Bitcoin trading at $11,000 a week ago, now soaring to $17,500 a week later. At the time of writing the cryptocurrency was sitting at approximately $16,500. Such a surge in price caused many economists to declare
Through extensive research done by Citizen Lab show Ethiopian spies using spyware acquired from Israeli company Cyberbit. The discovery resulted from the Ethiopian spies failing to configure the Command and Control (C&C) server. This left the information agency’s targets exposed online for all t
Intel has come under fire recently for numerous security vulnerabilities found in its ME firmware. Hardware vendors are no reacting to Intel's core CPU technology been riddled with security holes by actively disabling it before it is sent to customers. Currently, three major hardware vendors are off
Apple has recently patched a serious root access flaw found macOS High Sierra. The flaw allows for the authentication to bypass making the system exceptional vulnerable to exploitation. The flaw would enable a potential attacker to gain root access to the vulnerable system. Apple has described the v