In an effort to convince the makers of universal serial bus drives to improve the security of their firmware, a team of security researchers demonstrated how easy it is to turn the thumb drives in USBs into a malicious installer.
JPMorgan cyber attack broader than we think; other Financial Institutions also Targeted
After reports of a massive cyber attack on its database erupted in August, it was then unknown how broad the scope of the breach was. Now the banking firm bared more info in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the attack has affected approximately 83 million users, including more than […]
Bash bug-like Windows vulnerability discovered
Last month we reported on a Bash bug that targeted hardware running the Linux, Unix and Mac OS X operating systems. In other parts of the Web, there was much talk about how convenient administrators of Windows running computers could get, since the system is spared from such vulnerability.
After failing to win WhatsApp, Google is building its own mobile messaging app
Before Facebook was finally able to snap up WhatsApp, there was a tight tug-of-war between the social networking giant and Google over who would acquire the mobile messenger app. In the end, Google lost its more than $10 billion takeover bid to Facebook, which bought WhatsApp for $19 billion.
Google raises its bug bounty reward to $15K
If you have been working to find vulnerabilities and exploits and offer patches for those flaws, whether for Google or any other Internet company, read on.
Windows 10 is finally out, how does it differ from Windows 8?
Now that Microsoft has unveiled the successor of Windows 8, many tech pundits are saying the software giant has finally compensated the big failure that was the Windows 8.
