A quick look at a (new?) cross: At the beginning of December we started to observe a new botnet spreading on both Linux and Windows machines. In case of the Linux operating systems, the bot was installed through an SSH dictionary attack. The attacker logged in to compromised server and simply downloaded and executed a […]

What will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years?: Speaking at a security conference in Istanbul this month Jeff Kohler, vice president of international business development for Boeing’s defence arm, admitted to being “very concerned” about threats to flying software and said aircraft were now in need of cyber protection. In this video […]

Why small businesses must tackle cybersecurity: The 23 million small businesses that are thriving in America today are the foundation of local communities across the country. Most businesses must adhere to the “always- on” world and stay connected with customers that cause potential concerns securing sensitive data. Many government agencies, healthcare providers and small businesses […]

Bitcoin: Its not just loopy tulip land, its worse: Congratulations, libertarians, your clever little digital currency based on nothing but arithmetic, arrogance and faux-revolutionary Kool-Aid has been smeared in US Senate-love and slid all the way up to the US$1200 mark. Bitcoin is being taken seriously in serious quarters, it seems. Well done. So now […]

The OpenSSL software bug that saves you from surveillance!: Bugs in pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) are usually cause for concern, at least in cryptographic circles. There have been numerous examples over the years. We had the Debian “code fix” that removed all but 15 bits’ worth of unpredictability from the random generator used to secure […]

More than 1,400 Financial institutions in 88 Countries targeted by Banking Trojan in 2013: As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging threats like advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial malware and exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin theft, extensive privacy breach from NSA and many […]

iOS 7 Untethered Jailbreak released for iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices: If you love iPhone you are surely going to love this news. iOS 7 was released in 3 months before and today finally the evad3rs team has released an untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices running iOS 7.0 through iOS 7.0.4. The evasi0n installer is compatible with Windows, Mac OS […]

Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer: Reuters – As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, […]

Acoustic cryptanalysis: Many computers emit a high-pitched noise during operation, due to vibration in some of their electronic components. These acoustic emanations are more than a nuisance: they can convey information about the software running on the computer, and in particular leak sensitive information about security-related computations. In a preliminary presentation, we have shown that […]

CCC, 100-gbps, and your own private Shodan: One of the oldest/biggest “hacker” conventions is the CCC congress every December in Germany. This year, they are promising 100-gbps connectivity to the Internet. That’s ‘g’ as in ‘giga’, and as in ‘omfg that’s a lot of bandwidth’. So, what shall we do with all this bandwidth? The […]