Smart fridges and TVs should carry security rating, police chief says

Televisions, fridges and other internet-connected home appliances should carry cyber security ratings alongside energy efficiency ratings, a police chief has suggested. Durham chief constable Mike Barton said customers should be given the at-a-glance information for internet-ready equipment in the same Read More …

Motivation Mystery Behind WannaCry, ExPetr

If two is a coincidence and three is a trend, maybe we’re not quite there yet in officially calling WannaCry and ExPetr a new movement among APT attacks. But for now, it’s close enough. Researchers are starting to examine the Read More …

Massive blow to criminal Dark Web activities after globally coordinated operation

Two major law enforcement operations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police, with the support of Europol, have shut down the infrastructure of an underground criminal economy responsible Read More …

Critical Code Injection Flaw In Gnome File Manager Leaves Linux Users Open to Hacking

A security researcher has discovered a code injection vulnerability in the thumbnail handler component of GNOME Files file manager that could allow hackers to execute malicious code on targeted Linux machines. Dubbed Bad Taste, the vulnerability (CVE-2017-11421) was discovered by Read More …