18th March 2016 Symantec’s enterprise anti-malware package has several security flaws in it. This shows that even computers “protected” with anti-malware can still be hacked to an extent. SEP is commonly used in large institutions such as Lancaster Univeristy and often has kernel privileges. What I find worrying about this is that an attacker can…
18th March 2016 “Pwn2Own Researchers pulled off multiple OS X, Windows and web browser exploits at the latest Pwn2Own competition.” Whats great about events such as Pwn2Own is that experienced hackers can cracking into various software packages, legally and earn prizes for this and are under an NDA doing this. I’m a fan of this…
March 7th 2016 First ransomware has started infecting OSX Computers. Being very similar to the malicious copy of Linux Mint back in february, except this will encrypt all of your files and demand a ransom. What’s interesting is how an attacker could replace the legitimate version of Transmission with a malicious copy of OSX.Keranger.A and…
March 4th 2016 IBM have filed patents for some new Piezoelectric Transistors(PETs) which are thought to reinstate Moores law and provide a better alternatives to older Silicon Transistors. This is great news because at the moment processor performance increases are no where near what they used to be 10 years ago. Even Intel themselves are…