Secret Backdoor Account Found in Several Zyxel Firewall, VPN Products
Zyxel has released a patch to address a critical vulnerability in its firmware concerning a hardcoded undocumented secret account that could be abused by...
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Swiss Spies Benefitted From Secret CIA Encryption Firm: Probe
Switzerland benefitted from a spectacular espionage scheme orchestrated by the CIA and its German counterpart who used a Swiss encryption company to spy on...
Data Protection / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Privacy / Privacy & Compliance / Tracking & Law Enforcement
Berlin to Give Secret Services Access to Encrypted Conversations
The German government Wednesday agreed to allow secret services to listen in on conversations via encrypted messaging services such as Messenger or Whatsapp as...
US Secret Service reports an increase in hacked managed service providers (MSPs)
The US Secret Service sent out a security alert last month to the US private sector and government organizations warning about an increase in...
Passwordless Authentication Provider ‘Secret Double Octopus’ Raises $15 Million
Tel Aviv, Israel-based Secret Double Octopus has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round from Sony Financial Ventures, KDDI, and Global Brain...
12k+ Android apps contain master passwords, secret access keys, secret commands
A comprehensive academic study published this week has discovered hidden backdoor-like behavior — such as secret access keys, master passwords, and secret commands —...
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Hackers Install Secret Backdoor on Thousands of Microsoft SQL Servers
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and...
CIA Hacker / CIA Hacking Tools / cybersecurity / Joshua Adam Schulte / Joshua Schulte / Vault 7 / WikiLeaks
Ex-CIA Accused of Leaking Secret Hacking Tools to WikiLeaks Gets Mistrial
A federal judge in New York on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of a former CIA software engineer who was accused of...
Current SectopRAT trojan generates the second secret desktop for browser control sessions –
In the wild has emerged a new Trojan, SectopRAT, which has been able to start a secret secondary desktop for browser control on infected...
hacking news / kernel memory / memory hack / OpenSSH / private SSH keys / shared-memory side channel / side channel attack / side-channel attack / ssh exploit / ssh hacking
OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks
In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre,...