According to Kaspersky Lab’s “Spam and Phishing in 2017” report, criminals have been following a global agenda by using hot topics such as FIFA 2018 and Bitcoin to fool users and steal their money or personal information in the last 12 months. Spammers have shown themselves to be thoughtful actors, […]
Année : 2018
Hackers stole $6 million from Russian bank via SWIFT system: central bank
MAGNITOGORSK, Russia (Reuters) – Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts in […]
OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week.
OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. TLS protocol was designed to allow client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a secure way preventing message forgery, eavesdropping, and tampering. “OpenSSL 1.1.1 is currently in alpha. OpenSSL 1.1.1 pre release 1 has now been […]
Physician, protect thyself: healthcare cybersecurity circling the drain
No one knows you better than you do. But thanks to technology advances and the continued digitization of healthcare data accumulation and sharing processes, we can also honestly say the same about your healthcare provider. Indeed, every time we get in touch with a health professional, data is recorded (either on […]
U.S., Canada, Australia Attribute NotPetya Attack to Russia
The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have joined the United Kingdom in officially blaming Russia for the destructive NotPetya attack launched last summer. Moscow has denied the accusations. In a statement released on Thursday, the White House attributed the June 2017 attack to the Russian military and described it as […]
A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac
Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail. First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug affects not only iPhones but also a wide range […]
Still relying solely on CVE and NVD for vulnerability tracking? Bad idea
2017 broke the previous all-time record for the highest number of reported vulnerabilities. The 20,832 vulnerabilities cataloged during 2017 by Risk Based Security (VulnDB) eclipsed the total covered by MITRE’s Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) by more than 7,900. “Incredibly, we see too many companies […]
Méfiez-vous! Ransomware Saturn. Comment se débarrasser complètement de Saturn ?
Saturn apporte beaucoup d’avantages aux pirates, s’il arrive à l’ordinateur. Il doesn’;t ont une structure complexe, Cependant, Il est très efficace. Ainsi, les utilisateurs souvent rencontré avec elle en ligne. La seule issue est la réinstallation du système actuel, ou vous avez gagné ‘;t éliminer cette ransomware. Malheureusement, les utilisateurs devront dire adieu […]
Facebook wants you to install a VPN app accused of spying on users
Facebook has begun releasing a controversial app for its Android and iPhone (iOS) users which is a free VPN program from Onavo, an Israeli company bought by Facebook in October 2013, which promises to protect users’ browsing data. However, the program is accused of monitoring user traffic and tracking the major competitors of […]
Hackers use Google Ads to steal $50 million of Bitcoin
In December last year, HackRead.com exclusively exposed a scam in which hackers bought advertisement slots on Google Search Engine using Google’s very own Adwords (Google Ads) service. The search results would display Google Chrome browser download advertisement even before the official Chrome download store but in that case, the link on the ad […]