When Twitter announced their new design for “Tweet” and “follow” buttons back in October 2015, marketers across the web developed a mild anxiety—the new design came with a decision to nuke their beloved Tweet count feature. Social signals can be a huge credibility indicator for visitors and site content. Who doesn’t […]
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A water utility in the US state of North Carolina suffered a severe ransomware attack in the week after Hurricane Florence hit the East Coast of the U.S. According to the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority (aka ONWASA) some internal systems were infected with the Emotet malware, but the regular water service was not impacted. […]
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Kaspersky experts published a detailed analysis of the attacks conducted by the Russian-linked cyber espionage group DustSquad. Earlier October, security experts from ESET shared details about the operations of a cyber espionage group tracked as Nomadic Octopus, a threat actor focused on diplomatic entities in Central Asia. The group has been active since […]
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iOS passionate Jose Rodriguez disclosed a new passcode bypass bug that could be to access photos and contacts on a locked iPhone XS. The security passionate Jose Rodriguez has discovered a new passcode bypass bug that could be exploited on the recently released iOS 12.0.1. A few weeks ago, Rodriguez discovered a passcode bypass vulnerability […]
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Google’s got your back when it comes to your backups, it says – and it’s even promising to keep its own peepers off the goods. On Friday, Google announced that it’s brokered a marriage between Android’s Backup Service and Google Cloud’s Titan Technology to keep your backups encrypted so that even the […]
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Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web, experts discovered over 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum. Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web, experts from Anomali and Intel 471 discovered 35 million US voter records for sale […]
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The Pentagon has admitted that up to 30,000 military workers and civilian personnel have had their personal information and credit card data exposed following a security breach. The security breach occurred at a third-party vendor which provides travel management services to the Department of Defense. The vendor, which has not […]
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A brazen phishing campaign took Iceland by surprise the last weekend, sending out malicious emails to thousands of individuals, in an attempt to fool them into installing a powerful remote access tool. Even if the number of potential victims may seem low, local police say this is the largest cyber attack […]
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Experts from 0Patch revealed that the Microsoft Zero-Day Patch for JET Database Engine vulnerability (CVE-2018-8423) is incomplete. The vulnerability was discovered by the researcher Lucas Leong of the Trend Micro Security Research team that publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. The flaw is an out-of-bounds (OOB) write in […]
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Le 28 septembre dernier, Facebook annonçait le piratage d’environ 50 millions de comptes dans une attaque considérée comme étant la plus importante de l’histoire du réseau social. Selon Facebook, les attaquants ont exploité une vulnérabilité de sécurité résultant de l’interaction de trois bogues distincts sur deux fonctionnalités du réseau social, à savoir, […]
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