Hacking

Intel introduced hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when the vulnerabilities were made public in early 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, which account for three variants of a side-channel analysis security issue in server and desktop processors, could […]

Human-powered Intelligence Plays a Critical Role in Defending Against Socially Engineered Attacks The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) declared Business Email Compromise (BEC) the “3.1 billion dollar scam” in 2016, an amount which then grew in the span of one year into a “5 billion dollar scam.” Trend Micro […]

The Linux Foundation announced a new project called ACRN (pronounced « acorn ») that will provide generic code for the creation of hypervisors for IoT devices. A hypervisor is computer code for creating and running virtual machines. Project ACRN aims to provide a generic structure for an IoT-specific hypervisor component. The Linux Foundation says it built […]

Distil Bot Discovery for Google Analytics is a free offering that will give website owners the ability to understand the impact of bots on their business. The service is provided by Distil Networks, a company specializing in bot detection and mitigation services. How to differentiate a human website visitor from […]

Security experts at Core Security have disclosed the details of a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects MikroTik RouterOS in versions prior to the latest 6.41.3. MikroTik is a Latvian vendor that produce routers used by many telco companies worldwide that run RouterOS Linux-based operating system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7445, could be exploited […]

Des acteurs malveillants s’appuient sur l’infrastructure de GitHub – une plateforme d’hébergement et de gestion de développement de logiciels – pour propager les malwares dont ils sont les auteurs. L’information est de la firme de sécurité Avast. « Les cybercriminels créent des forks – ce qui sous GitHub veut dire copier […]

Facebook has confirmed over the weekend reports that an app made by a team of academics had collected vasts amounts of user data, who then shared this information with Cambridge Analytica —a commercial data analytics firm that allegedly used this info to target US voters in the 2016 Presidential election. […]