Mobile ‘Rootkit’ Maker Tries to Silence Critical Android Dev A data-logging software company is seeking to squash an Android developer’s critical research into its software that is secretly installed on millions of phones, but Trevor Eckhart is refusing to publicly apologize for his research and remove the company’s training manuals from his website. Though the software [...]
Cyber-Attack Claims At US Water Facility Facebook identifies porn spam perpetrators Facebook said it has identified many of those responsible for a wave of pornographic content that showed up on users’ news feeds this week. Those behind the coordinated spam attack, which began on Monday, leveraged a cross-site scripting (XSS) web browser vulnerability to flood [...]
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Connections Between DroidDreamLight and DroidKungFu We were recently able to analyze the routines of the latest DroidKungFu variant, detected as ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI. While we were monitoring the traffic between ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI and its remote server, we chanced upon a command to delete a certain package. In the command above, the server instructs the malware to delete a [...]
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[WEB SECURITY] What's the best way to maintain password history? Justin Scott: [WEB SECURITY] What's the best way to maintain password history?: <br /> [...] <br /> That sounds like a bug in their implementation. If the user id stays the same then I would expect the password history check to kick in to prevent [...]
DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection coondoggie writes “Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will next week detail a new program it hopes will develop technology to dramatically change computer system security authorization. The program, called Active Authentication, looks to develop technology that goes way beyond today’s use of hard to [...]
New, odd SSH brute force behavior, (Sun, Nov 6th) Over the past 72 hours, I’ve noticed a shift in the types of brute force attacks I’m seeing on my SS …(more)… Digest powered by RSS Digest
TheHackersNews: ☛ CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers http://t.co/YyD2uJTD #Security #Anonymous @AnonymousIRC @Anonymousabu @AnonymousPess TheHackersNews: ☛ CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers http://t.co/YyD2uJTD #Security #Anonymous @AnonymousIRC @Anonymousabu @AnonymousPess New, odd SSH brute force behavior, (Sun, Nov 6th) Over the past 72 hours, I’ve noticed a shift in the types of brute force attacks [...]
Free service can tell if your email address has been compromised Has your email or username been snatched by hackers and posted to the Internet? You can find the answer to that question at a new online service called Pwnedlist. Security roundup for Nov. 4: virtualization is key to public cloud security; China, Russia accused [...]