KNOB Attack – Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Data To Hackers. A group of researchers has discovered a critical Bluetooth vulnerability that leaves tons of wireless devices exposed to digital intrusions. The Bluetooth SIG, an organization that oversees the technology’s standards, has issued a security notice for what the researchers are calling Key Negotiation of Bluetooth or KNOB attack. It gives hackers the ability to interfere with the Bluetooth pairing procedure, allowing them to alter the encryption key making it easiery for attackers to brute force their way into the connection and be able to spy on data shared between devices, such […]
Be Careful How You Charge Your Device! A bigger threat than charging cables are public USB charging stations. “There are certain things in life that you just don’t borrow,” says Charles Henderson, Global Managing Partner and Head of X-Force Red at IBM Security. “If you were on a trip and realized you forgot to pack underwear, you wouldn’t ask all your co-travelers if you could borrow their underwear. You’d go to a store and buy new underwear.” The easiest, and usually quite effective, way to avoid these problems is to switch off the smartphone completely before charging it and keeping […]
Check Point Research Notifies Whats App In Late 2018. At the recent Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas (yesterday August 7), researchers from Israeli security company Check Point revealed how Facebook controlled WhatsApp could be hacked to change the text of a message and the identity of the sender. If that’s bad enough the vulnerabilities were revealed to WhatsApp last year but remain exploitable today! For more information click HERE.
Hackers Gain Acess To 23+ Million Online Retailer’s Accounts. CafePress, the custom T-shirt and merchandise company, acquired by Snapfish last year was hacked. According to reports the breach compromised more than 23 million accounts. Is yours one of them? For more information click HERE.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
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