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'Tails' Operating System Website Has Been Hacked

dimanche 29 juin 2014 à 21:36
Just a few hours ago, the Official website of the Tails Operating System has been hacked and it appears that a self-proclaimed 17-year old hacker breached and defaced it. Tails is a Linux-based highly secure Operating System, specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy. Hacker, who named himself "Sum guy", managed to access the website as administrator and

Tracy Morgan Dead? Facebook Scam Targeting Users with Malware

samedi 28 juin 2014 à 11:44
Oh MY God! Is Tracy Morgan Really Dead? NO, Thankfully it’s only a hoax, but scammers announced the popular comedian and actor Tracy Morgan dead. Another Facebook scam is circulating across the social networking website just a day before the former “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan was critically hurt in a six-vehicle fatal accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that

New Banking Malware with Network Sniffer Spreading Rapidly Worldwide

samedi 28 juin 2014 à 10:25
The hike in the banking malware this year is no doubt almost double compared to the previous one, and so in the techniques of malware authors. Until now, we have seen banking Trojans affecting devices and steal users’ financial credentials in order to run them out of their money. But nowadays, malware authors are adopting more sophisticated techniques in an effort to target as many victims

20-Year Old Vulnerability in LZO Compression Algorithm Went to Planet Mars

vendredi 27 juin 2014 à 18:43
A 20 year old critical subtle integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient data compression algorithm that focuses on decompression speed, which is almost five times faster than zlib and bzip compression algorithms. Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) was developed in 1994 by Markus Oberhumer and currently it is one of the most popular and

Android 4.3 and Earlier versions Vulnerable to Critical Code-Execution Flaw

vendredi 27 juin 2014 à 10:22
A critical code-execution vulnerability almost affecting everyone those are not running the most updated version of Google Android, i.e. Android version 4.4 also known as KitKat. After nine months of vulnerability disclosure to the Android security team, researchers of the Application Security team at IBM have finally revealed all the possible details of a serious code-execution