At least five Russian major banks came under a continuous hacker attack, although online client services were not disrupted. The attack came from a wide-scale botnet involving at least 24,000 computers, located in 30 countries. The attack began Tuesday afternoon, and continued for two days straight, according to a source close to Russia’s Central Bank Read more about 5 major Russian banks repel massive DDoS attack[…]

By using the interference patterns with wifi, you can collect information and detect with 68.9% accuracy what people are typing. The accuracy goes up as you collect more data. Source: Your body reveals your password by interfering with Wi-Fi

In this paper we describe a new type of threat in which adjacent IoT devices will infect each other with a worm that will spread explosively over large areas in a kind of nuclear chain reaction, provided that the density of compatible IoT devices exceeds a certain critical mass. In particular, we developed and verified Read more about IoT Goes Nuclear – Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction / How they hacked your Philips Hue and made a worm[…]

As explained in a paper titled A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol (PDF) from the International Association for Cryptologic Research, Signal has no discernible flaws and offers a well-designed and compromise-resistant architecture. Signal uses a double rachet algorithm that employs ephemeral key exchanges continually during each session, minimising the amount of text Read more about ‘Trust it’: Results of Signal’s first formal crypto analysis are in[…]

Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in its Professional Careers portal that may have exposed truckloads of personal information. The networking giant has sent an email to affected users in which it says a “limited set of job application related information” was leaked from the mobile version of the website, blaming an “incorrect security setting” placed Read more about Cisco’s job applications site leaked personal data[…]

Linux/IRCTelnet, as the underlying malware has been named, borrows code from several existing malicious IoT applications. Most notably, it lifts entire sections of source code from Aidra, one of the earliest known IoT bot packages. Aidra was discovered infecting more than 30,000 embedded Linux devices in an audacious and ethically questionable research project that infected Read more about New, more-powerful IoT botnet infects 3,500 devices in 5 days[…]

The nation state has a single point of failure fiber, recently installed in 2011, and it could spell disaster for dozens of other countries The attack was said to be upwards of 1.1Tbps — more than double the attack a few weeks earlier on security reporter Brian Krebs’ website, which was about 620Gbps in size, Read more about Mirai botnet attackers are trying to knock an entire country (Liberia) offline[…]