The Association of Internet Researchers is an “Academic association dedicated to the advancement of…Internet studies” – [Wikipedia]. They’ve held conferences since…
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Facebook Hacks and SMS, Oh My
There’s a supposed “Facebook Hack” website located at facebookhack(dot)pl You can tell it’s all about hacking, because they’ve written the word “hack”…
INEC Nigeria Site Visitors Offered PDF_Viewer.EXE
According to the website of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, they were formed in 1999 to “…among other things organize…
BrowserStack: “We did get hacked.”
BrowserStack, the cross-browser testing tool website, has not had a very good weekend. There was a compromise and a rather odd email was sent…
Exposing the Flash ‘EITest’ malware campaign
Security incidents seldom are unrelated. Connecting those dots can help us better understand the underlying architecture and groups involved in cyber-crime. Since early…
More Free Facebook Hacking Sites Surface Online
Four months ago, I unmasked a Facebook “hacking” service called FBSniffing and how it really doesn’t really “hack” but instead sign in users to a mobile…
Scammers Offer Up “Steam Wallet Codes”
Last week, we presented a list of online threats that users may encounter while on Steam and interacting with other gamers within…
CanSecWest: Day 2 Recap
Day two of annual CanSecWest conference started bright and early, and when I say bright I mean it. In an uncharacteristic weather…
UART, Root Shell On Commercial Devices
Many embedded devices run a stripped down version of Linux and have poorly documented diagnostic interfaces. In order to find potential…
Compromised user accounts posted on Pastebin
Proof is a key component to hacking and some hackers have been taking to Pastebin to share their spoils. A recent…