A website cookie is a file that helps websites identify who you are and whether you have been to a website before. This is useful for remembering your preferences or items you may have ordered, making your website experience a better one. The problem occurs when hackers can manipulate this data, as evidenced in… Read more »
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Encryption is a good thing
Recently, a terrorist used WhatsApp to send and receive encrypted messages to help plan an attack, and there have been demands by some that there should be a weakening or banning of this type of encryption. Would this help prevent this type of terrorist communication? Absolutely not. Some have also called for backdoor systems to… Read more »
Slack only took five hours to fix bug that could have allowed hackers to hijack your account
Slack awarded $3,000 to a security researcher at Detectify after they uncovered a vulnerability which could have allowed hackers to seize a user’s account. The researcher, Frans Rosen, discovered the flaw, which was a way of stealing a user’s private token and then gaining access to their account. While this hack is extremely specified and… Read more »
Movie night? Nope. It’s a fake iTunes receipt from phishers targeting Apple users
There is a new phish in town, and now its targeting iTunes users trying to access their personal information. This attack is emailed in the form of a receipt which appears to come from your iTunes account listing movies the victim supposedly purchased. There is a link at the bottom which, when clicked, directs the victim to a… Read more »
100,000+ WordPress webpages defaced as recently patched vulnerability is exploited
WordPress recently released a new version of their software which also included an update that fixed a previously undisclosed critical vulnerability. If left unpatched, hackers could possibly modify the content of any post or page on a WordPress website. Initially this vulnerability was not made public in the hopes of staving off hackers; however, it… Read more »
Is Public Wi-Fi Safe?
How often do you verify that the free Wi-Fi that you’re connecting to at your local coffee shop is actually provided by the store and not a hotspot that a scammer sitting two seats away from you has set up? Did you even know this is something people do to get access to all your… Read more »
Apple issues security patches for … just about everything
If you own any piece of Apple technology in your home or office, you’ll probably want to update its software as soon as possible, as Apple just issued security patches for all of its major operating systems. There are a few serious flaws and vulnerabilities that, if left unpatched, could allow hackers to have access… Read more »
Police request Echo recordings for homicide investigation
Arkansas police are hoping they can use an Echo found at a murder scene, and its recordings, to help with the investigation of a murder. Echoes only begin recording after hearing the wake word, but background noise/chatter could have activated the device. Amazon stores all the voice recordings from its devices on its servers. As… Read more »
Yahoo’s billion account database for sale on the black market
Those one billion Yahoo! users’ account information, which was stolen back in 2013, is now for sale on the computer underground market for a total of a little less than one million dollars. So not only is the data currently in the hands of criminals and probably being utilized, but if you have not changed… Read more »
Ransomware forced hospitals to cancel 2,800 operations and shut down systems
Recently, three British hospitals were infected by malware, forcing their IT systems to shutdown as well as the cancellation of routine patient operations. The few days this went on was an obvious detriment to the hospitals’ job of keeping people healthy and saving lives. What made this particular ransomware especially dangerous, which was a variant… Read more »
