Last year, Uber received an email from an anonymous person demanding money in exchange for the stolen user database. It turns out that a 20-year-old Florida man, with the help of another, breached Uber’s system last year and was paid a huge…
If your computer is running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, then you need to apply this emergency patch immediately. By immediately, I mean now! Microsoft has just released an emergency security patch to address a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its…
A team of security researchers has discovered a new malware evasion technique that could help malware authors defeat most of the modern antivirus solutions and forensic tools. Dubbed Process Doppelgänging, the new fileless code injection technique takes advantage of a built-in Windows…
Well, “a friend in need is a friend indeed” goes a long way, but in this case, this phrase hardly makes any sense. A 27-year-old Michigan man who hacked into the government computer system of Washtenaw County Jail to alter inmate records…
If you receive an email that looks like it’s from one of your friends, just beware! It’s possible that the email has been sent by someone else in an attempt to compromise your system. A security researcher has discovered a collection of…
In the digital age, one of the most popular sayings is—if you’re not paying, then you’re not the customer, you’re the product. While downloading apps on their smartphones, most users may not realize how much data they collect on you. Believe me;…
