Hack your car with PASTA
For $28,300, consumers can now purchase PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed). Created by Toyota, PASTA is an open-source testing platform that checks a car’s vulnerability to hacking. Dark Reading reported researchers …
This week Europol coordinated the arrests of six suspects in two nations accused of running a cryptocurrency ring that stole at least $28 million in Bitcoins.
EA Origin patched flaw that put accounts at risk
Cybersecurity researchers identified a “chain of vulnerabilities” that could put user accounts of the Electronic Arts Origin platform at risk, and the gaming company was quick to generate a fix for the …
A U.S. Senate subcommittee has released a new bipartisan report that documents the glaring failures of eight federal agencies to address major cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Hackers grab your computer files – should you pay to get them back? A small Florida city did just that by agreeing to pay more than half a million dollars in ransom to regain access to files and data that were locked and encrypted.
Will Libra tip the scales?
Facebook announced recently that it is developing a cryptocurrency called Libra with various corporate partners such as Uber, Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, according to the Associated Press. World finance leaders have expre…
A U.S. border patrol database of traveler photos and license plates has been compromised as part of a malicious cyberattack, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
4.6M Evernote users put at risk
Cybersecurity watchdogs discovered a critical flaw in the popular organization app Evernote, reported Bleeping Computer. The vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive information stored on third-party sites con…
One of the largest tech companies in the world, the U.S. government, and cybersecurity professionals are all fervently urging computer users to apply an easy patch that could prevent a vulnerability known as BlueKeep from becoming a major cybersecurity…
Adware on Google Play gets 440M downloads
An array of 238 apps that have been downloaded a collective total of 440 million times were found to contain “heavily obfuscated adware” known as BeiTaAd, reported Dark Reading, citing the recent findings of s…