While most of the general user base has never heard of DNS and of those that have, only a few of those understand how it works, that has not stopped the hackers from very effectively abusing it against everyone. Very simply, DNS maps the www.xyz.com names that people use in their browsers into the IP […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A report presented this month at the 2017 Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies was pretty offensive – and not in the way they meant in the workshop title. Offensive security is what spies do – go out and attack a system. The report demonstrated a proof of concept attack that would work if someone took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The BankBot trojan is managing to keep Google Engineers on their toes. The trojan sits, literally, on top of existing banking apps and captures your user name and password. The initial target was Russian banks. Then it was “improved” to include UK, Austria, Germany and Turkey. Who knows what the next version will target. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am not sure what rock I have been hiding under, but somehow I missed this item. About two months ago, the security company Checkpoint revealed a new Android malware family called Gooligan. The malware can attack about 74% of Android phones world wide. The good news, if there is any, is that it only […]
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