So-called ‘bug bounties’ are offered by some of the world’s largest websites and software companies to ensure that software bugs are found and fixed by friendly security researchers, rather than by malicious hackers who could use the same flaws to cause significant damage. Bug bounties are a relatively new phenomenon but, in recent years, have … More The world’s biggest bug bounty payouts
A serious bug in Valve’s Steam engine has allowed cybercriminals to steal user credentials over the past week, according to reports. Kotaku reports that although the fallout makes it sound like a complex issue, the bug appears to be pretty basic – a video in the Kotaku post shows that from the “lost password” section of Steam … More Valve Steam bug enables accounts to be hacked
Lately we informed you how a fake Dubsmash application has been uploaded to Google Play Store at least nine times, which have tens of thousands of installs. This porn clicker Trojan, which we detect as Android/Clicker, has once more become available for download from Play Store. After we notified Google and published an article about … More Porn clicker keeps infecting apps on Google Play
Hackers have demonstrated an exploit that can take remote control of a Jeep, to the extent of cutting the transmission and controlling the throttle. The two hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, demoed the exploit – the result of a year’s work – to a Wired journalist, who wrote: “The result of their work was … More Hackers demonstrate Jeep security hack
When it comes to data security, attackers continue to exploit the biggest weakness of all – people. We look at 10 security mistakes humans continue to make on a daily basis. 1. Poor patching The sad reality is that most data breaches owe not only to a human mistake, like clicking on a malicious link, … More 10 security mistakes you probably keep on making
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