Artificial intelligence can be used to ‘grow’ fake fingerprints that pack in common features, fooling scanners.
Tag Archives: Security threats
DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid
It enacted a worst-case, “black start” scenario: swaths of the country’s grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.
Targeted ransomware attacks – SophosLabs 2019 Threat Report
This year’s SophosLabs Threat Report is out. We talk targeted ransomware attacks, and in particular, SamSam.
WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked
There’s no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.
Botnet pwns 100,000 routers using ancient security flaw
Researchers have stumbled on another large botnet that’s been hijacking home routers while nobody was paying attention.
Update now! WordPress sites vulnerable to WooCommerce plugin flaw
Researchers have published details of a dangerous flaw in the way the hugely popular WooCommerce plugin interacts with WordPress that could allow an attacker with access to a single account to take over an entire site.
DerpTrolling game server DDoS attacker pleads guilty
Austin Thompson pleaded guilty on November 6 in a San Diego Federal court to knowingly causing damage to third-party computers.
Ranting researcher publishes VM-busting zero-day without warning
A security researcher has published a zero-day flaw in a commonly-used virtual machine management system without notifying the vendor, justifying it with a scathing critique of the infosecurity industry.
Google warning: Fix your dodgy ads within 30 days or get banned
Having taken what it thought was a decisive swipe at the problem of “abusive” advertising a year ago, Google now says next month’s Chrome 71 will unleash an even tougher crackdown.
Voting machine manual tells officials to reuse weak passwords
The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords.