WASHINGTON–Gentlemen may not read each other’s mail, as Henry Stimson famously said so long ago, but in today’s world they certainly steal it and there’s precious little in the way of gentlemanly conduct happening in the realm of cyberespionage. It’s every man—or country—for himself in this environment, and that free-for-all is creating unforeseen consequences for […]
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Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks
APT28, a Russian hacking group, has been tied to attacks against the country of Georgia, Eastern European political and military organizations, and NATO, a report from FireEye said.
NAT-PMP Protocol Vulnerability Puts 1.2 Million SOHO Routers At Risk
More than 1 million SOHO routers and embedded devices are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability in the NAT-PMP protocol that enables traffic hijacking and denial of service attacks.
Google Adds Hardware Security Key For Account Protection
Google is introducing an improved two-factor authentication system for Gmail and its other services that uses a tiny hardware token that will only work on legitimate Google sites. The new Security Key system is meant to help defeat attacks that rely on highly plausible fake sites that are designed to capture users’ credentials. Attackers often go […]
Dropbox Denies Hack, Says ‘Your Stuff is Safe’
Dropbox officials on Monday said that a large cache of usernames and passwords posted online and alleged to have come from the company’s users are not related to Dropbox customer accounts. A spate of media reports reported yesterday that attackers had stolen several million sets of credentials from Dropbox and posted them online. The claim of […]
AT&T Hit By Insider Breach
AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users.
Home Hacking Made Simple
David Jacoby looked at all of the Web-enabled devices in his house–TV, game console, network storage device–and found a handful of exploitable bugs in them.
Major Bash Vulnerability Affects Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Bash, present in almost all Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X deployments, has been discovered. Experts advise immediate patching.
More Trouble For jQuery As Second Compromise Reported
The website for JavaScript library jQuery is under attack for the second time in a week.
Hacked Brazilian Newspaper Site Targets Router DNS Settings
A Brazilian political website has been compromised and is injecting iFrames that attempt to change the victim’s router DNS settings.