Facebook has bought a Boston based government ID verification service, Confirm, which Facebook will most likely use to confirm the identities of suspicious accounts in its fight against fake accounts used to spread political propaganda. Prior to Facebook purchasing the start-up, the start-up provide
The hacking group behind SamSam attacks have been busy striking high profile targets since the beginning of January. These targets include hospitals, a city council, and an ICS (Industrial Control Systems) firm. Reported attacks include the one against the Hancock Health Hospital in of Greenfield, I
Necurs is considered the world’s biggest spam botnet with what is widely believed to be millions of bots at the creators’ disposal. In the latest use of Necurs, the spammers are currently sending millions of spam emails that push an obscure cryptocurrency named Swisscoin. Such schemes are called pum
Cryptocurrencies make news headlines at a near daily rate. Often they concern whether Bitcoin is about to reach a new high or the bubble is about to burst. Unfortunately, it seems they make the headlines just as often when it comes to hackers stealing funds from crypto wallets. While many nations ha
While much of the InfoSec community is still reeling after the Meltdown and Spectre announcements, a new trend in malware developments may be occurring. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro have released a report detailing what they believe to be the first malware discovered developed in th
While the media and InfoSec community waits with bated breath for Intel and AMD’s response to the critical flaws found in generations of processors, Microsoft has been wasting little time in trying to shore up the problem with patches of their own. In their haste, it appears certain issues have aris
Over the last two days, the InfoSec community has been rocked by news of a yet unnamed critical vulnerability affecting several generations of Intel CPUs. The vulnerability is due to be announced on January 9 but till then many researchers have compared the vulnerability to the now infamous Heartble
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 (