YesWeHack hosts two-day bug bounty at Lille cyber conference

By Waqas

The anti-virus firm Avast has announced shutting down one of its subsidiaries called Jumpshot.

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A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it's finally done churning through the courts.

New web targets for the discerning hacker

Competitions for users are a long-time tradition on underground cybercrime forums for members looking for money - and cred with major criminal syndicates.

Developers behind WordPress plugin Code Snippets have issued a patch for the high-severity flaw.

By Sudais Asif

In a direct memory access (DMA) attack an attacker can plug in a malicious device into one’s computer and extract highly confidential information.

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Enterprise laptops vulnerable to critical direct memory access attack

For businesses planning to adopt 5G, the sheer number of IoT devices creates a much larger attack surface.

The ongoing global spread of the disease precipitates malware infections.

The recently disclosed Jeff Bezos phone hack and other incidents show that mobile devices are being increasingly targeted by sophisticated nation-state attackers.