Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- How Uber avoids rides for law enforcement and competition
- Drug bazaar pays ransom to avoid doxing of employees
- Excellent OPSEC advice from Teen Vogue
- Finland is winning the information war
- Social enginnering to the Oscars
- Future cyberwars
For the more technical
- Recovering ancient magnetic tapes with precious content
- Lazarus group attacks analysis by Trend Micro
- Ransomware as a service
- Hashcat 3.40 is out
- Analysis of Nebula exploit kit
- Analysis of a tech suppot scam
- Nymaim analysis tool
- Analysis of interesting malware sample (PowerShell + DNS)
- Hacking TGI Fridays orders
- VoIP gateway backdoor
- How Google patched a serious vulnerability in thousands of apps
- Old WHOIS server takeover
- Extracting notification history from iOS backups
- Extracting internal Google DNS information
- 32 million Yahoo mailboxes had their cookies forged
- [PDF] Report on hackers themselves
- DDoS attacks in Luxembourg
- Gootkit implements own proxy
- AWS S3 outage analysis
- Hacking Samsung Bootloader
- Attack on reCAPTCHA
- Attacking Memcache
- New code injection method identified in Dridex
- SQLi in NextGEN WordPress plugin
- Google and e2e encryption
- 26 vulnerabilities in password managers
- PHP and OPCache problems
- A dark vision of the future of ransomware
- Analysis of Gamaredon campaign
- Smart toys data leak
- RCE in ESET for macOS
- Analysis of CVE-2016-3353 (IE)
- Firefox RCE
- History of hash function attacks
- How are security products tested
- Analysis of Microsoft vulnerabilities
- Windows Kernel Local Denial-of-Service
- Step by step analysis of a malicious document
- Mobile malware evolution
- Strange requests that can reach an AWS server
- Quantyfying the impact of Cloudbleed
- OpenBSD WiFi MiTM attack
- Time-based RCE data exfiltration
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