There’s nothing more traumatic than having your passwords stolen. Imagine your email or banking information in someone else’s hands and what they can do with your card. It’s not just traumatic, but it can also cause immeasurable damage. And despite all these, a quick look over the...
Smart cards and new technologies increase security. VeraCrypt 1.26 was released after an 18-month period of development. The initiative is a continuation of the defunct TrueCrypt disk partition encryption system. The RIPEMD-160 algorithm used by TrueCrypt has been replaced by SHA-512 and SHA-256 in...
The past few months have been extremely challenging for the public sector in the UK. Not only is the country shattered by riots in multiple sectors and especially the medical one, but the NHS has also had to face a series of ransomware attacks. While more parts of the public industry have been tack...
Vulnerabilities in Exim require immediate action. Due to serious vulnerabilities, many servers that use the Exim mail transfer agent are now potential targets for attacks. These flaws enable remote execution of malicious code without user interaction. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) first alerted th...
Names, private details, company profiles, and confidential information regarding dozens or even hundreds of victims have been published by the popular hacker group Clop, holding all this data for ransom. Such headlines are quite common these days, especially since everyone can access the dark web w...
The world’s first dark web market for illicit drugs and other illegal things has gained notoriety outside of the deep web sphere, with news regarding the marketplace making it to mainstream media, especially after the market was dissolved. The action started about a decade ago when the so-cal...