Urban surveillance camera systems lacking security
Kaspersky Lab researchers examined one city’s network of surveillance cameras and determined that the systems was not very secure.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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Kaspersky Lab researchers examined one city’s network of surveillance cameras and determined that the systems was not very secure.
Much has been said about the VENOM vulnerability, the latest in an increasingly long line of bugs affecting vast swaths of the Internet. It’s an old-school bug of the relatively
The Chinese-language Naikon advanced persistent threat group is targeting military, government and civil organizations located in and around the South China Sea, which is an increasingly contentious hot-bed of territorial
It emerged recently that certain Hospira drug infusion pumps contain dangerous and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities.
The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, California of Internet-of-things insecurity and how no amount of money can fix computer security.
A New York artist made an exhibition out of making a single private and anonymous cell phone call outside the scope of government spying. Here’s how he did it.
According to a number of reports, Intel and IBM are scouring the job market for Bitcoin experts. We at the Kaspersky Daily weren’t quite sure why the two tech giants
There is new piece of ransomware out there going after the players of some 40 online games in an apparent attempt to target a somewhat younger crowd of computer users.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month, Android smartphone giant, Samsung, released its mobile payments platform, Samsung Pay. The name will almost certainly draw comparisons to Apple
The latest in a long line of whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations may be among the most shocking: that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, allegedly compromised
A couple of weeks ago someone posted the following quote from Samsung’s Smart TV terms of service on Reddit: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or
The popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp released WhatsApp Web late last month. The service will allow users to run WhatsApp on their favorite Web browser — so long as their
A new variant of the Onion ransomware has emerged, though you might see it referred to as CTB-locker or Citroni. Whatever you decide to call it, CTB-Locker is a Cryptolocker-like
Not surprisingly, one researcher realized last week that he could exploit Progressive’s Snapshot driver tracking tool in order to hack into the on-board networks of certain auto-mobiles. Snapshot is a
Gizmodo recently published a list of the most popular passwords of 2014, smugly deriding those morons who deploy poorly conceived credentials. Ironically, it may bear reminding that Gizmodo is owned
Blackhat, directed by Michael Mann (Heat, The Last of the Mohicans) is a digital whodunit about a pair of cyberattacks and the duo of unlikely bedfellows — a colonel on
The first ever publicly known Mac OS X firmware bootkit emerged out of the 31st Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg, Germany last month. Security researcher Trammel Hudson developed the
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Zeus Trojan. It’s called Chthonic, a reference to spirits or deities from the underworld in Greek myth, and
If December means predicting the new year in the security world, then it also means recapping the year that’s about to end. And that’s just what Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research
It’s December, and in the security industry that means one thing: predictions from experts about what trends will emerge in the next year. As always, some stuff is new and
Nearly every organization in the business of tracking advanced persistent threat campaigns is talking about a new and highly sophisticated attack platform called “Regin” (pronounced: reɪ*ɡən – like the former