Hackers fail to crack Chrome OS
An interesting article from YAHOO News tech section: Google (GOOG) offered hackers a chance at a big pay day if they could crack its Chrome OS platform. The company held its annual Pwnium competition at the ConSecWest security conference in Vancouver this week where it put $3.14159 million up for grabs. While a number of […]
Pwn2Own Hackers Bring Popular Browsers To Their Knees
The results from the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest are in, and the score is as follows: hackers one, software zero.
Cyber Crime gang arrested for hacking Dubai exchange companies accounts
An interesting article from Ehacking news: The Dubai Police have arrested a cyber crime gang who were able to transfer more than 2 Million dollars(Dh7 million) from Dubai Exchange companies' accounts. The police said that a gang of Asians and Africans work with hackers to hack into websites and systems of companies in Dubai to […]
Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell
An interesting article from Naked Security: For us in SophosLabs, ransomware is a common sight. We see many different versions every day. But as to be expected, the authors think up a new gimmick that makes us take notice. This is one of those cases. Recently we received a ransomware sample from one of our […]
Don't Be Dumb About Smartphone Privacy
An interesting article from forbes.com about smart-phone privacy: If you’ve got a smartphone, it’s probably become so indispensable that you’d be lost without it (often literally, thanks to its mapping and location apps). “It’s your whole life in a small device,” says Eduard Goodman, the Phoenix-based chief privacy officer for the blog Identity Theft 911. That’s […]
CloudFlare security service goes down after router failure
An interesting article from Cnet.com in there security & privacy section: Web security service CloudFlare was offline for about an hour this morning due to a systemwide failure of its edge routers. The outage, which began around 1:47 a.m. PT, removed the security layer for 785,000 Web sites, including 4chan and Wikileaks, according to TechCrunch. […]