Tech News
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Windows Local Privilege Exploit On Sale For $90,000
How much would a cybercriminal, nation state or organized crime group pay for blueprints on how to exploit a serious, currently undocumented, unpatched vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft Windows? That price probably depends on the power of the exploit and what the market will bear at the time, but here’s a look at one […]
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FBI Warns to Beware of Fake USB Chargers that Wirelessly Record Everything You Type
Last year, a white hat hacker developed a cheap Arduino-based device that looked and functioned just like a generic USB mobile charger, but covertly logged, decrypted and reported back all keystrokes from Microsoft wireless keyboards. Dubbed KeySweeper, the device included a web-based tool for live keystroke monitoring and was capable of sending SMS alerts for […]
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Spotify Hack?
Spotify Possibly Hacked! Change your Password ASAP If you are one of the millions of people around the world who love to listen to music on Spotify, you may need to change your password immediately. Has Spotify been hacked? The company says no, but some Spotify users have claimed their profiles were hijacked, and details […]
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Uninstall QuickTime For Windows
Here are the instructions to uninstall QuickTime for Windows via the Windows Programs And Features interface. Click the Start Menu, then click the Control Panel, and click on Uninstall a program under Programs. In the list of programs, highlight QuickTime For Windows, and then choose Uninstall. At this point QuickTime 7 and the Browser plugins […]
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Firefox Exploitable Through Popular Plugins Such As NoScript
NoScript, Firebug, and other popular Firefox add-on extensions are opening millions of end users to a new type of attack that can surreptitiously execute malicious code and steal sensitive data. There is no isolation among various Firefox add-ons installed by an end user. The underlying weakness has been described as an extension reuse vulnerability because […]
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Microsoft No Longer Supporting Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10
Microsoft has ended support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 as of January 2016. If you want to continue receiving updates, Microsoft recommends everyone to upgrade to version 11 or use the Edge browser that is built in to Windows 10. To quote Microsoft’s End of IE support page, It means you should take action. After […]
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First Mac OS X Ransomware Targets Apple Users
Another Mac OS Virus/Malware successful attack, we often hear Apple devices are on a closed OS and are not susceptible to the unwanted Virus/Malware type attacks but Virus outbreaks of the Flashback virus to Mac systems and Wire Lurker attacks on iPads and phones are proof Apple’s Mac OS and other products are in fact […]
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Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads and Malware into Web Pages
China has gained a considerable global attention when it comes to their Internet policies in the past years; whether it’s introducing its own search engine dubbed “Baidu,” Great Firewall of China, its homebrew China Operating System (COP) and many more. Now, Chinese Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been caught red-handed for injecting Advertisements as well […]
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Review Of Malwarebytes New Anti-Ransomware Tool (With Silent Installation Instructions)
Malwarebytes Anti-RansomWare (MBARW) was formerly known as CryptoMonitor from EasySync software until they were acquired by Malwarebytes. We tested this tool in our office with a physical (eg. not virtualized) Windows 7 64-bit computer, and threw a couple of ransomware infections at it. Please note that Malwarebytes AntiRansomWare is an alpha-quality tool, which means that […]
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Apple’s Mac OS X Still Open to Malware, Thanks Gatekeeper
A new Exploit for Apple computers discovered by researchers shows the Mac OS is still open to Malware. Last year, The Hacker News reported a deadly simple exploit that completely bypassed one of the core security features in Mac OS X known as Gatekeeper. Apple released a patch in November, but now the same security […]