Avast-sponsored study shows wide prevalence of IoT devices, many with weak credentials and other security vulnerabilities.

Some pretend to be hospitals to get patients' payment data. Others pose as the goverment and try to get confidential data from hospitals.

Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo "drug" deals from the public-by-default company.

The appliance of science

A security researcher who disclosed flaws impacting 2 million IoT devices in April - and has yet to see a patch or even hear back from the manufacturers contacted - is sounding off on the dire state of IoT security.

By Uzair Amir

These apps were designed to pass as BtcTurk, a Turkish cryptocurrency exchange. Researcher Lukas Stefanko at the Slovakian security firm ESET has discovered Android malware in new apps that can bypass the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) without using SMS permissions. The malicious apps are available on the very reliable platform Google Play Store. The malware […]

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Four vulnerabilities could "SACK" connected devices with denial-of-service exploits.

A new extension and browser alert aim to help users report deceptive sites and prevent them from encountering fraud.

By Waqas

Cellebrite is the same company which helped the FBI to unlock iPhone device of San Bernardino shooter. Renowned Law Enforcement contractor, the Israel-based forensics firm Cellebrite has claimed that they have developed a perfect tool to hack almost every high-end Android and iOS device, which is definitely good news for law enforcement agencies. In a […]

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs and an XML external entity (XXE) problem opens the door to takeover of admin desktops.