Tag: security

Several vulnerabilities in apps available for LeapFrog’s LeapPad tablets for children could be used to locate kids, interact with them, or phish parents for sensitive info. The tablets themselves did not use HTTPS, exposing them to packet sniffing. […]

The authors behind LokiBot info-stealer have turned to steganography to add a new layer of obfuscation, the researchers discovered in a recent variant of the malware. […]

Millions of mobile phones were illegally unlocked by AT&T insiders who took bribes of hundreds of thousands of US dollars to also plant unauthorized tools and devices on the company’s internal network. […]

Both Microsoft and Redhat have released advisories about a new variant of the Spectre 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious program to access and read the contents of privileged memory in an operating system. […]

A new variant of Echobot botnet has been spotted to include over 50 exploits leading to remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in various Internet-of-Things devices. […]

CafePress, a well-known custom T-Shirt and merchandise site, suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 23 million of their customers. […]

Two serious vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (SoC) WLAN firmware could be leveraged to compromise the modem and the Android kernel over the air. […]

UK-based digital mobile-only bank Monzo asked roughly 480,000 of its customers to change their debit card PINs after discovering that they were stored in encrypted log files. […]

Multiple companies were off to a rough start last week when a phishing campaign pushing a data-wiping malware targeted them and asked for a ransom. Researchers call it GermanWiper. […]

A long-running scam email campaign that pretends to be an unsubscribe confirmation request has seen an uptick recently. These emails should never be clicked on or responded to as they are designed to harvest working email addresses or to perform some other type of scam. […]