Yearly Archives: 2019

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Special report The NSA may kill off a controversial mass surveillance program of Americans that was exposed by Edward Snowden, according to a Congressional staffer.

Luke Murry is national security advisor to House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and over the […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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RSA The NSA has released its home-grown open-source reverse-engineering suite Ghidra that folks can use to poke around inside applications to hunt down security holes and other bugs.

Spoiler alert: it’s Apache 2.0-licensed, available for download here, and requires a Java runtime […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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Another week, another Facebook privacy storm.

This time, the Silicon Valley giant has been caught red-handed using people’s cellphone numbers, provided exclusively for two-factor authentication, for targeted advertising and search – after it previously insinuated it wouldn’t do that.

Folks handing […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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McAfee (the antivirus firm, not John the dodgy “playboy”) reckons the Sharpshooter malware campaign it uncovered in late 2018 is the work of North Korean hacking crew the Lazarus Group.

Thanks to data from a command-and-control server that was “provided to […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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WinRAR, one of the world’s most popular Windows file compression applications, has patched last month a severe security flaw that can be abused to hijack users’ systems just by tricking a WinRAR user into opening a malicious archive.

The vulnerability, discovered […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde disclosed this while making the call for better regulation of the banking system as a requirement for building a safer, more sustainable and ethically sound financial sector.

Speaking in London on Thursday while delivering in […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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Cisco’s security limb has spotted nefarious people targeting Elasticsearch clusters using relatively ancient vulns to plant malware, cryptocurrency miners and worse – though it does root out some other cybercrims’ dodgy wares, cuckoo-style.

“These attackers are targeting clusters using versions […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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A US judge this week sentenced website hacker Billy Anderson to three months behind bars, refusing his lawyer’s request not to put him in jail, in order to “send a message” to others.

Anderson, 42, of Torrance, California, targeted thousands […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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A new version of the decade-old banking credential-stealing Qbot malware is doing the rounds, according to infosec firm Varonis.

The latest version, spotted after an unfortunate customer’s systems were infected, retains the anti-analysis polymorphism features of the original, Varonis researchers […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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RSA Microsoft has wheeled out two new enterprise security tools – Azure Sentinel, a cloud-based SIEM, and Microsoft Threat Experts, an infosec advice-as-a-service bundled with a panic button.

The two services are part of Redmond’s ongoing invasion of the cloud security market. […]