Monday, November 2nd, 2015
More than 500 websites that used a free analytics service inadvertently exposed their visitors to a nasty malware attack made possible by a hack of PageFair, the anti-adblocking company that provided the analytics.
The compromise started in the last few minutes of Halloween with a spearphishing e-mail that ultimately gave the ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
Six university researchers have revealed deadly zero-day flaws in Apple's iOS and OS X, claiming it is possible to crack Apple's password-storing keychain, break app sandboxes, and bypass its App Store security checks.
Attackers can exploit these bugs to steal passwords from installed apps, including the native email client, without being ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
I'm helping someone reconfigure their home network and realized that I never posted about the Y-router configuration. Most folks have a home modem that is leased from their ISP and most of these newer modems have built-in router functionality and provide both LAN and WLAN connectivity, but this modem is ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2015
Researchers with Cylance have identified a new attack technique – built on a vulnerability identified nearly 20 years ago by Aaron Spangler – that can enable the theft of user credentials from PCs, tablets and servers running any version of Windows, according to a Monday post by Cylance.
The “Redirect to ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Of all the various malware attack vectors, hacking a person’s router is one of the most effective. A new report from Ara Labs highlights how router attacks have evolved in recent years, and details a new method of serving unwanted advertising via intercepted Google Analytics information.
When evil routers attack
The reason ...
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