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[…]

Long-overdue rules protecting security research and vehicle repair have finally taken effect, as they should have done last year. Though the Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress unlawfully and pointlessly delayed their implementation, for the next two years the public can take advantage of the freedom they offer. Source: Why Did We Have to Read more about US Copyright Office stalls a year, but finally allows pentesting[…]

The researchers found that when connected to a target user on a Skype call, they could record the audio of the user’s keystrokes. With a small amount of knowledge about the victim’s typing style and the keyboard he’s using, the researchers could accurately get 91.7 percent of keystrokes. The attack does not require any malware Read more about Recording Keystroke Sounds Over Skype to Steal User Data[…]

Redmond’s digital crimes unit senior attorney Courtney Gregoire says half of respondents between the age of 18 and 34 had followed tech support scammer instructions, handing over remote access to their machines or downloading software after encountering a scam page. Only 17 per cent of respondents 55 years and older took the bait. Meanwhile, one Read more about Kids today are so stupid they fall for security scams more often than greybeards[…]

A total of 32 lakh debit cards across 19 banks could have been compromised on account of a purported fraud, the National Payment Corporation of India said in a statement. The issue was brought to light when State Bank of India blocked the debit cards of 6 lakh customers on October 14. This was done Read more about 32 million Indian debit cards possibly compromised[…]

The BTB provides a history of branches taken by the processor as it runs through its code: after the CPU is told to make a decision, it usually jumps to another part of the program based on the outcome of that decision. For example, if something fetched from memory has a value greater than zero, Read more about Intel CPU memory location randomisation weakness broken by flooding branch buffer[…]

For the past two years, since researchers discovered the attack, the term Rowhammer has been used to describe a procedure through which attackers launch read & write operations at a row of memory bits inside a RAM memory card. The repeated read and write operations cause an electromagnetic field to appear, which changes local memory Read more about Rowhammer Attack Can Now Root Android Devices[…]

iTrack Easy, Nut Smart Tracker, TrackR Bravo en Tile were looked at: both the data the device itself sends and the apps they use. They don’t come out well. Source: Stalkers volgen je dankzij je eigen GPS-trackers

On Oct 1, after a 2h absence from his phone, Bob attempted to check his email and discovered he’d been logged out of his gmail account. Upon trying to log back in, Google notified him that his email password had been changed less than an hour ago. He then tried to make a call and Read more about Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it LESS secure (because telco insecurity).[…]

What is the CVE-2016-5195? CVE-2016-5195 is the official reference to this bug. CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is the Standard for Information Security Vulnerability Names maintained by MITRE. Why is it called the Dirty COW bug? “A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of Read more about Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) Linux privilege escalation[…]