Tag: security

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked students not to make hoax threats via social media, emails, or text messages, in a warning published as part of its ‘Think Before You Post’ campaign. […]

Twitter on Wednesday announced that it would turn off its Tweet via SMS feature for an unspecified period following abuses that led to hackers posting from at least two high-profile accounts. […]

Whether it be malware devs contacting us about our stories or commenting in our forums, we all know that the ransomware developers monitor researchers and technology sites for information about their programs. Nothing shows this better, than a ransomware that recently decided to adopt the name given to it by researchers. […]

Hackers infecting the computer systems of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, with ransomware wouldn’t settle for anything less that than $5.3 million to decrypt the data. The ransom was too high and they got a big fat nothing in return. […]

Google yesterday rolled out security patches for the Android mobile operating system but did not include the fix for at least one bug that enables increasing permissions to kernel level. […]

Android smartphones from multiple vendors, including Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Sony are susceptible to an advanced type attack that can alter device settings via a short text message. […]

More than 1,000 security bug bounty reports were submitted during a three-day live hacking event in Las Vegas. The total payout for the participating hackers was almost $2 million. Three organizations paid the money, one of them covering more than half of the total. […]

Exploit broker Zerodium has updated the payouts for eligible zero-day Android and iOS exploits, with rewards for Android 0days having surpassed the ones for iOS for the first time since 2015 when the company was founded. […]