Android P, the next generation of Google's operating system, may not be due for release until sometime later this year - but that doesn't mean we don't already know some of the features it has in store for us. That's because the Android P is now available as a developer preview. That means this first preview of Android P is intended for developers...

At least 400,000 servers are thought to be running a vulnerable program that can be tricked by a remote hacker into running malicious code. The problem is in versions of the open-source Exim message transfer agent (MTA). Exim, which was initially developed at the University of Cambridge, may not be a program familiar to the average computer user, but...

Whoever hacked the LA Times' interactive county murder map probably hoped to make a killing mining cryptocurrency - but swift action from a security researcher has put paid to their plans. Security researcher Troy Mursch, whose blog has focused on cryptomining threats in recent months, raised the alarm on Twitter, after discovering that an Amazon...

A cybercrime gang based in Ukraine is estimated to have made as much as $50 million after tricking Bitcoin investors into handing over the login credentials for their online wallets. Security researchers at Cisco Talos describe how a massive phishing operation has been co-ordinated from Ukraine, after criminals purchased Google Adwords posing as...

Swiss telecoms giant Swisscom has admitted that it suffered a serious security breach in the autumn of 2017 that saw the theft of contact details of approximately 800,000 customers - most of whom were mobile subscribers. Data exposed during the breach included: Customers' first and last names Customers' home addresses Customers' dates of birth ...

Why go to all the bother of writing ransomware that demands victims pay a Bitcoin ransom? If all you want is cryptocurrency, why not use the infected computers to mine the crypto coins themselves? That way you don't have to rely on a human victim buying some Bitcoin, and nervously making their way onto the dark web to make their ransom payment....

Reddit, the so-called "front page of the internet", has some important news for its 250 million registered users. You can now secure your Reddit account with two-factor authentication (2FA). The additional layer of security has been rolled out as an option to all users following months of beta-testing. To enable the feature, Reddit users must access...

Internet users are doomed. I don't mean you or me; the fact that we're reading this article on Tripwire's The State of Security blog means we at least have a passing interest in protecting ourselves online. No, I mean those folks who, like us, use the internet but don't take the steps necessary to put in place the most rudimentary defenses to...

WhatsApp likes to brag about its end-to-end encryption, but researchers from Germany's Ruhr University Bochum have discovered a flaw that could allow unwanted eyes to spy upon your private group chats. In a technical research paper that explores the end-to-end security of three different secure messaging apps capable of allowing "private" group...

Android users would be wise to remember that just because an app appears in the official Google Play store doesn't mean that it should be considered entirely trustworthy. Researchers at Trend Micro have described how they recently uncovered a total of 36 apps in the official Android app marketplace that secretly harvested the details of users,...

With 2017 coming to a close, we wanted to give our readers an overview of some of the most interesting, educational, and standout blogs from the year to help fill the time between Christmas and the New Year. My favourite State of Security blogs from 2017 Pentest Toolbox Additions 2017 It´s becoming a yearly tradition, but one our readers and I...

If you still haven't properly secured your Twitter account with two-factor authentication then you have one less excuse today. Twitter has announced that you can now use third-party apps (such as Google Authenticator, Authy, or 1Password) to verify yourself at login. https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/943542421698125824 Which is great news,...

No-one responsible for computer security should forget what happened in October 2016. The Mirai botnet launched an attack on the internet, the scale of which had never been seen before. By unleashing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on DNS service company Dyn, Mirai managed to knock out significant chunks of the internet -...

We're all hopefully familiar with the notion that criminals can phish details from unsuspecting computer users by creating copycat websites. To make a phishing page appear more legitimate a scammer might create a domain with a similar looking URL - for instance, appIe.com rather than apple.com (hint: if you didn't notice, the first "appIe" had a...

For as long as I can remember, members of the public have been losing money to scammers, as they've been tricked into sending their hard-earned cash via Western Union. Scammers prey on the vulnerable and gullible, tricking them into wiring money via Western Union with the promise that it will help with medical bills, pay for for a new internet...

If you thought it was scary when security researchers remotely hijacked a Jeep as it was driven down the freeway, consider this - now airplanes are getting hacked. The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed that a Boeing 757 airliner was successfully hacked as it sat on the runway at the airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 19,...

Hackers have been found exploiting a freshly-uncovered vulnerability in Microsoft's software to install malware on business computers. According to security researchers, since last month a Russia-linked hacking group known as APT28 have been using a Microsoft protocol called Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to run malicious code through a poisoned Word...

A researcher has uncovered security holes in Google's bug-tracking database that could have potentially resulted in malicious hackers accessing sensitive information, including details of ways to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in Google products. Researcher Alex Birsan has described how he managed to trick Google Issue Tracker (known internally...

Reports appeared on Tuesday that a new ransomware outbreak was hitting organisations in Russia and Ukraine. Victims included the Russian newswire Interfax, Ukraine's Odessa airport, and the Kiev subway system. Media outlets like Fontanka.ru found their website's disrupted by the attack, and urged readers to follow them on social media for updates...

In our previous article, we laid the groundwork for what we believe to be a serious threat to ICS/SCADA devices: social engineering. We continue here with some definitions, some of which you may already know. Phishing Phishing is a relatively broad term for any attempt to trick victims into sharing sensitive information, such as passwords,...