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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Lamphone attack lets threat actors recover conversations from your light bulb

4 years ago

It might sound strange, and even horrifying, but some security researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to track and recover any conversations by closely observing light bulbs. When soundwave hits a light bulb, the vibrations create a small flicker in the emission of light. Any communication or audio recordings... Read more

It might sound strange, and even horrifying, but some security researchers have demonstrated that it... Read more

VULNERABILITIES

Honda pauses production and closes offices following ransomware attack

4 years ago

Honda paused production and shut down some of its production facilities and closed its customer and financial operations following a ransomware attack. The Snake Ransomware is believed to have targeted Honda’s operations specifically. Honda said in a statement to The Verge, “There is no current loss of personally identifiable information.”... Read more

Honda paused production and shut down some of its production facilities and closed its customer... Read more

POLICIES AND REGULATIONS

New Hasty Attempt to Tackle Fake News in Brazil Heavily Strikes Privacy and Free Expression

4 years ago

Brazil’s Senate is rushing through a new law called the “Fake News Law,” which is supposed to protect the country from fake news. Still, it will instead impose requirements on messaging and social media platforms that would do away with privacy and freedom of expression. The laws would mandate... Read more

Brazil’s Senate is rushing through a new law called the “Fake News Law,” which is... Read more

BREACHES

Airtel’s mobile app hit with security flaw which left millions of user data exposed

4 years ago

An security bug was discovered in the Airtel's mobile app that exposed sensitive data to all its users like personal details, subscription details, device compatibility for 4G, 3g and GPRS, network information, activation data, user type, and even IMEI number. The flaw was in the API of the Smartphone App... Read more

An security bug was discovered in the Airtel's mobile app that exposed sensitive data to... Read more

FRAUDS AND SCAMS

Phishers Use Fake VPN Config Notification to Target Office 365 Details

4 years ago

Security researchers at Abnormal Security have intercepted phishers making use of a fake VPN configuration notification to target employees’ Office 365 credentials. The attackers capitalized on the trend of organizations implementing VPNs to secure their employees working from home during the ongoing pandemic. The link provided in the... Read more

Security researchers at Abnormal Security have intercepted phishers making use of a fake VPN configuration... Read more

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

An unhackable, quantum resistant email technology is on its way

4 years ago

The L3S Research Institute of Leibniz University of Hanover and secure email provider Tutanota have revealed that they are working together on a new research project called PQmail, which aims to implement quantum computer resistant cryptography in an upcoming email application. This application will be available for free. The PQmail... Read more

The L3S Research Institute of Leibniz University of Hanover and secure email provider Tutanota have... Read more

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Intel-Microsoft joint project turns malware into images

4 years ago

Researchers from Intel and Microsoft have collaborated to study the use of deep learning for malware threat detection. In this study, the malware is first converted into grayscale images. Then, the textural and structural patterns of the images are used to classify them as harmless or malicious, as well as... Read more

Researchers from Intel and Microsoft have collaborated to study the use of deep learning for... Read more

FRAUDS AND SCAMS

Zoom Gets Stuffed: Here’s How Hackers Got Hold Of 500,000 Passwords

4 years ago

About half a million Zoom account details, including usernames and passwords, were recently made available for sale on dark web crime forums. IntSight researchers believe that attackers used a four-pronged approach to strip users’ data from the popular conferencing platform, which has around 300 million active users. Data,... Read more

About half a million Zoom account details, including usernames and passwords, were recently made available... Read more

BREACHES

JustDial data breach puts over 100 million users' personal information at risk

4 years ago

Rajshekhar Rajaharia discovered the data breach, and he stated that over 70 percent of the data belonged to users who had called JustDial's customer care number, which is "88888-88888". The data breach included information like names, email addresses, mobile numbers, gender, date of birth, and addresses of the... Read more

Rajshekhar Rajaharia discovered the data breach, and he stated that over 70 percent of the... Read more

VULNERABILITIES

Pre-Installed Utility Renders HP Computers Vulnerable to Attacks

4 years ago

Ten vulnerabilities in HP Support Assistant, a utility pre-installed on all HP computers sold after October 2012, were found by a security researcher. Computers running Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10, were affected, which included five local privilege escalation flaws, two arbitrary file deletion bugs, and three remote code... Read more

Ten vulnerabilities in HP Support Assistant, a utility pre-installed on all HP computers sold after... Read more