Two academics discussed just how woefully inadequate some services are encryption-wise in a talk at Black Hat on Thursday.
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Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam
Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on a Nigerian Business Email Compromise scam called “wire-wire”, or “waya-waya.”
Fixing ‘This Internet’ Before It Breaks Again
Dan Kaminsky advocates fixing today’s internet before it breaks the same way it did in the 1990s.
Unmasking xDedic’s Black Market for Servers and PCs
Black market machine trading has gone beyond the sale of servers and now includes PCs located on corporate networks or that contain sensitive data.
New Technique Checks Mitigation Bypasses Earlier
Researchers at Endgame are expected at Black Hat to introduce Hardware Assisted Control Flow Integrity (HA-CFI), which leverages features in the micro-architecture of Intel processors for security.
WPAD Flaws Leak HTTPS URLs
Sniffing HTTPS URLs with malicious PAC files gets easier with a new technique that exploits flaws in the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol.
50 Shades of Dridex Botnet Grey
A “white hat” is how we described the hacker who added Avira installers to the Dridex botnet distribution network. Our description might have been a bit off-color.
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Tor: FBI Paid CMU $1 Million to De-Anonymize Users
The Tor Project accuses the FBI of paying Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to attack Tor hidden services and uncloak users of the anonymity network.
AlienSpy RAT Resurfaces as JSocket
The dismantled AlientSpy remote access Trojan, the same malware found on the phone of dead Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, has resurfaced with new crypto and a new name.
Researchers Unveil Square Reader Mobile POS Hacks
At Black Hat, two recent Boston University computer engineering graduates revealed software and hardware hacks against the latest versions of the popular Square Reader.