Real Hacking

Most of us have probably heard the term “smishing” — which is a portmanteau for traditional ph<strong> ishing</strong> scams sent through <strong> SMS</strong> text messages. Smishing me

<strong> Microsoft Corp.</strong> today released updates to quash at least 55 security bugs in its <strong> Windows</strong> operating systems and other software. Two of the patches addr

<strong> The U.S. Department of Justice</strong> today announced the arrest of Ukrainian man accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the <strong> REvil</strong> ransomware gang, a R

The holiday shopping season always means big business for phishers, who tend to find increased success this time of year with a time-honored lure abou

A number of publications in September warned about the emergence of “<strong> Groove</strong> ,” a new ransomware group that called on competing extortion gangs to unite

Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious at

In December 2018, bling vendor <strong> Signet Jewelers</strong> fixed a weakness in their <strong> Kay Jewelers</strong> and <strong> Jared</strong> websites that exposed the order information for all of

U.S. federal investigators today raided the Florida offices of <strong> PAX Technology</strong> , a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of busines

The <strong> Conti</strong> ransomware affiliate program appears to have altered its business plan recently. Organizations infected with Conti’s malware who refuse to n

On Wednesday, the <em> St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em> ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state educati

A recent phishing campaign targeting <strong> Coinbase</strong> users shows thieves are getting cleverer about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the

<strong> Microsoft</strong> today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its <strong> Windows</strong> operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability th

Endpoints are constantly connected to the internet, so they offer a gateway for cyberattacks. Endpoint security is simply the process of protecting yo

<strong> Facebook</strong> and its sister properties <strong> Instagram</strong> and <strong> WhatsApp</strong> are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how

The mis-implementation of Elastic Stack, a collection of open-source products that employ APIs for crucial data aggregation, search, and analytics cap