Last week, hacktivists posted online 400 GB worth of internal emails, documents and other data stolen from Hacking Team, an Italian security firm that has earned the ire of privacy and civil liberties groups for selling spy software to governments worldwide. New analysis of the leaked Hacking Team emails suggests that in 2013 the company used […]

A functionality of Microsoft Office that has been in use since the 1990’s can be exploited to deliver malicious, executable files to users. The security researcher who discovered it claims that widely used security software is not triggered when the executable files are run. The functionality or feature is the OLE Packager which is found […]

Patches, hacking and keeping your head down online: our weekly 1-minute fun news video that’s educational, too! Source: Sophos

An Estonian man who ran an organized cybercrime ring that infected more than four million PCs in over 100 countries with moneymaking malware has pleaded guilty in New York to wire fraud and computer intrusion charges. Vladimir Tsastsin, 35, ran an online Web hosting and advertising empire in Estonia called Rove Digital. From 2007 to 2011, […]

OpenSSL announced on Monday that it had a “high severity” update arriving in three days’ time. That’s today, and the update is out. Paul Ducklin tells you what you need to know… Source: Sophos

Service Systems Associates, a company that serves gift shops and eateries at zoos and cultural centers across the United States, has acknowledged a breach of its credit and debit card processing systems. Several banking industry sources told KrebsOnSecurity they have detected a pattern of fraud on cards that were all used at zoo gift shops operated by […]