Check Point researchers have reported the discovery of a new back door Trojan, called SpeakUP, which affects six different Linux distributions. SpeakUp has been found by researchers to be targeting servers primarily located in East Asia and Latin America…

Eight airlines have been found to contain security flaws in their e-ticketing systems. According to security researchers at Wandera, these e-ticketing systems lack encryption, allowing for the exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) to…

Huddle House, a fast food chain, has fallen victim to a point-of-sale (POS) attack. In an advisory recently released by Huddle House, it is stated that the restaurant chain's POS systems were infected with malware through the compromise and use of a…

A security researcher, named Linus Henze, has discovered a vulnerability in the latest version of MacOS Mojave, which could be exploited by hackers to access passwords stored in Keychain. Keychain is Apple's password management system. This article…

A team of researchers led by Professor Yan Luo of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $1 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of strengthening the…

A new Google Chrome Extension has been released, which aims to warn users of unsafe passwords. The Chrome browser extension called, Password Checkup, checks if credentials used to log into different websites have been exposed in past data breaches. This…

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in its application by businesses. However, questions remain in regards to the effectiveness of this technology in protecting businesses from cyber threats. This article further discusses the growing use…

All users are encouraged to increase the length of their passwords and refrain from using the same password for multiple accounts. Chris Morales, head of security analytics at Vectra, recommends the use of long, simple phrases as passwords instead of…

According to security researchers at IBM, Siri Shortcuts can be abused by attackers to demand the payment of ransoms. Through the use of Siri Shortcuts, users can be threatened by cybercriminals to pay ransoms in order to prevent the …

The growing use of IoT calls for the strengthening of such devices as the incidence of cyberattacks and data theft rises. Perry Alexander, a professor in electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Information and Telecommunication…

Following the discovery of a major bug in Apple's Group FaceTime that allows for the performance of eavesdropping, Apple has disabled the feature and announced the release of a patch to fix the bug. The exploitation of the bug would have allowed FaceTime…

Researchers from Pen Test Partners recently discovered the vulnerability of kid's GPS-tracking Gator watches to being used by attackers to gain access to sensitive information about the children using these watches. 35,000 children are impacted by this…