NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2018 | December

After SamSam, Ryuk shows targeted ransomware is still evolving

Devastating, targeted ransomware attacks didn’t start with SamSam and they didn’t end with it either.

The flaw offered attackers a way of executing keystroke injection to take control of a Windows PC running Logitech Options.

“You authorise it – whereupon it promptly leaks to the world all your sexts, inappropriate jokes, and dank memes. Tragic!” said the researcher.

Protecting an account with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a no-brainer, but that doesn’t mean every method for doing this is equally secure.

This is on you, makers of sites and services that allow users to create passwords like “password.” You can do better!

A former acid house rave kingpin has been sentenced to 20 months for using a bizarre home-built machine to pilfer £500,000 from banking customers.

Forbes has added to the ever-growing pantheon of ways to trick biometrics by printing a 3D head and using it to break into Android phones.

Google keeps tabs on much of your activity. Now, it turns out that its YouTube service is also reading what’s in your videos too.

One such use would be to pre-stuff our devices with ads and other content before we wander into a Wi-Fi dead zone.