Security Affairs newsletter Round 143 – News of the week

Security Affairs newsletter Round 143 – News of the week A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the...

WeChat is set to become China’s official electronic ID system

WeChat is set to become China’s official electronic ID system China’s largest social media network, WeChat, is set to become an official el...

A new Facebook security feature reveals fraudulent Facebook-like mails

A new Facebook security feature reveals fraudulent Facebook-like mails A new Facebook security feature protects users from identity theft, ...

It’s a mystery, member of the Lurk gang admits creation of WannaCry ransomware for intelligence agencies

It’s a mystery, member of the Lurk gang admits creation of WannaCry ransomware for intelligence agencies A hacker belonging to the Lurk cyb...

DitM Dog In The Middle – New Hacking Technique to Eavesdropping

DitM Dog In The Middle – New Hacking Technique to Eavesdropping During Defcon 25 hacking conference held in Las Vegas on July, a new eavesd...

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Blog Maintenance - Test Post this is a test post. Please ignore   Read More At -> https://blog.cripperz.sg/2017/08/16/blog-maint...

ShadowPad backdoor was spread in corporate networks through software update mechanism

ShadowPad backdoor was spread in corporate networks through software update mechanism Kaspersky Lab discovered attackers were able to modif...

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police in a swatting attack

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police in a swatting attack Andrew Finch, a 28-year-old man from Wichita, Kansas, was kille...

Chinese censorship – authorities have shut down 13,000 websites since 2015

Chinese censorship – authorities have shut down 13,000 websites since 2015 China continues to strengthen its online censorship, it has shut...

Samsung Android Browser is affected by a critical SOP bypass issue, a Metasploit exploit code is available

Samsung Android Browser is affected by a critical SOP bypass issue, a Metasploit exploit code is available The browser app pre-installed on...

Huawei router exploit (CVE-2017-17215) involved in Satori and Brickerbot was leaked online

Huawei router exploit (CVE-2017-17215) involved in Satori and Brickerbot was leaked online The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17...

Info Stealing – The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli spotted a new operation in the wild

Info Stealing – The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli spotted a new operation in the wild The Italia cyber security expert Marco Ramilli,...

Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year Two Romanian people have been arrested and c...

Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year Two Romanian people have been arrested and c...

Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year Two Romanian people have been arrested and c...

Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach

Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach The popular expert Troy Hunt notified the Ancestry.com security team of an unsecured fil...

Hackers are attempting to breach Magento stores through the Mirasvit Helpdesk extension

Hackers are attempting to breach Magento stores through the Mirasvit Helpdesk extension The cybersecurity expert Willem de Groot reported c...

Hackers are attempting to breach Magento stores through the Mirasvit Helpdesk extension

Hackers are attempting to breach Magento stores through the Mirasvit Helpdesk extension The cybersecurity expert Willem de Groot reported c...

The Twitter account of the popular security expert John McAfee was hacked

The Twitter account of the popular security expert John McAfee was hacked The official Twitter account of popular cyber security expert Joh...

Pavel Lerner, head of EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine

Pavel Lerner, head of EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine According to Ukrainian media, the head of the EXMO cryptocurre...

Pavel Lerner, head of EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine

Pavel Lerner, head of EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine According to Ukrainian media, the head of the EXMO cryptocurre...

Faulty firmware OTA update bricked hundreds of LockState smart locks

Faulty firmware OTA update bricked hundreds of LockState smart locks Some models of LockState smart locks also used by AirBnB customers wer...

Use Rsync for Daily, Weekly and Full Monthly Backups (Automated SSH Login For Remote Backups) Scripts

Use Rsync for Daily, Weekly and Full Monthly Backups (Automated SSH Login For Remote Backups) Scripts Bunch of references using rsync in di...

8 Signs Someone Is Too Stressed (And Doesn’t Know It)

8 Signs Someone Is Too Stressed (And Doesn’t Know It) Stress can affect all aspects of your life, including your emotions, behaviors, think...

A Kernel Exploit for Sony PS4 Firmware 4.05 is available online

A Kernel Exploit for Sony PS4 Firmware 4.05 is available online The developer SpecterDev finally released a fully-functional kernel exploit...

For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017

For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017 For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top ...

The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta suffered a DNS attack

The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta suffered a DNS attack The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers c...

Mozilla patches five issues in Thunderbird, including a critical flaw

Mozilla patches five issues in Thunderbird, including a critical flaw Mozilla issued a critical security update to address five flaws in th...

The spike in Bitcoin price is making it a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground

The spike in Bitcoin price is making it a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground The recent spike in the Bitcoin price an...

ATMs operated by a Russian Bank could be hacked by pressing five times the ‘Shift’ key

ATMs operated by a Russian Bank could be hacked by pressing five times the ‘Shift’ key ATMs operated by the Sberbank bank running Windows X...

Defray Ransomware used in targeted attacks on Education and Healthcare verticals

Defray Ransomware used in targeted attacks on Education and Healthcare verticals Researchers at Proofpoint spotted Defray Ransomware, a new...

More than 1,700 valid Telnet credentials for IoT devices leaked online

More than 1,700 valid Telnet credentials for IoT devices leaked online Security researchers are warning of the availability online of a lis...

Watcho ut! Adware spreading via Facebook Messenger

Watcho ut! Adware spreading via Facebook Messenger Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform malware campa...

Three fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed from the official Google Play

Three fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed from the official Google Play Researchers from the mobile security firm Lookout have discovered...

Experts discovered a flaw in GoAhead that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices

Experts discovered a flaw in GoAhead that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices Experts from Elttam discovered a flaw in GoAhead tiny w...

Schneider Electric Patches Flaws in Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product

Schneider Electric Patches Flaws in Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product Schneider Electric recently released a firmware update for its Pelc...

Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant

Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant Security experts spotted a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomwar...

Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests of the Lazarus APT Group

Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests of the Lazarus APT Group Researchers at security firm Proofpoint collected evidence of t...

10 Things Financially Successful People Do Differently

10 Things Financially Successful People Do Differently Financially successful people do things a little different that the rest of us. They...

7 Sure Signs That Your Workplace Is Toxic

7 Sure Signs That Your Workplace Is Toxic If your management focuses solely on what employees are doing wrong, you may be working for a tox...

What is Minimalism / Minimalist?

What is Minimalism / Minimalist? So what is this minimalism thing? It’s quite simple: to be a minimalist you must live with less than 1...

Security Affairs newsletter Round 142 – News of the week

Security Affairs newsletter Round 142 – News of the week A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the...

Facebook’s photo tagging system now looks for users in photos they’re not tagged in

Facebook’s photo tagging system now looks for users in photos they’re not tagged in Facebook’s is rolling out a new feature for its photo t...

Experts uncovered a new GlobeImposter Ransomware malspam campaign

Experts uncovered a new GlobeImposter Ransomware malspam campaign Experts observed cybercriminals are conducting a new malspam campaign to ...

Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to 5 years in prison for selling a VPN service without the...

Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to 5 years in prison for selling a VPN service without the... The Chinese authorities have sentenc...

Russian Fancy Bear APT Group improves its weapons in ongoing campaigns

Russian Fancy Bear APT Group improves its weapons in ongoing campaigns Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption...

Satori is the latest Mirai botnet variant that is targeting Huawei HG532 home routers

Satori is the latest Mirai botnet variant that is targeting Huawei HG532 home routers Satori botnet, Mirai variant, is responsible for hund...

Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner spreads via Facebook messenger

Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner spreads via Facebook messenger Researchers from security firm Trend Micro observed crooks spreading a new cryp...

Has your Windows 10 start menu stopped working after Windows updates? Here is how to fix it

Has your Windows 10 start menu stopped working after Windows updates? Here is how to fix it The Start menu made a welcome return in Win...

Why I Host My Own Wordpress Blogs (Right in my own bedroom)

Why I Host My Own Wordpress Blogs (Right in my own bedroom)   I am used to host my own sites with my self-managed dedicated servers ...