In a session called ‘The cybercrime shop: the shadow economy behind the boom in online blackmail’, Geoff White, technology journalist and producer at Channel 4, shared the preliminary results of his investigation into ransomware attacks on the public s…
Japan Voices Concerns on Post-Brexit Data Protection
Tokyo sends unprecedented message to negotiators
Brazzers Porn Site Users Caught Out in Data Breach
Nearly 800,000 account credentials exposed
UK’s Cyber Amateurs Battle Shadowy Hackers
Winners shortlisted for Cyber Security Challenge UK final
Toolsmith Tidbit: Will Ballenthin’s Python-evtx
Andrew Case (@attrc) called out Will Ballenthin’s (@williballenthin) Python-evtx on Twitter, reminding me that I’m long overdue in mentioning it here as well.
Will’s Python-evtx description from his website for same follows:
“python-evtx is a pure Py…
Toolsmith Release Advisory: Kali Linux 2016.2 Release
On the heels of Black Hat and DEF CON, 31 AUG 2016 brought us the second Kali Rolling ISO release aka Kali 2016.2. This release provides a number of updates for Kali, including:
New KDE, MATE, LXDE, e17, and Xfce builds for folks who want a desktop en…
Dropbox Phishing Campaign Delivers Bogus Invoices
When a user clicks on the link within the email, a zip archive file is almost immediately downloaded, with malware.
Global Smartphone Malware Jumps 98% Over Six Months
Android in the dock again, according to Nokia report