HbbTV holes make tellys hackable 

HbbTV holes make tellys hackable

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 5 June 2013 12:06 PM
Turns TVs into Bitcoin mining slaves.
Music could trigger mobile malware 

Music could trigger mobile malware

In Applications - By Shona Ghosh, 20 May 2013 9:00 AM
Heavy bass beats could lead to ownage.
Researchers gain root to Google Australia's office system 

Researchers gain root to Google Australia's office system

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 8 May 2013 9:46 AM
Management system unpatched.
Java broken by new sandbox bypass 

Java broken by new sandbox bypass

In Applications - By Danielle Walker, 24 April 2013 8:00 AM
Attack kits updated.
Web malware overtakes network worms 

Web malware overtakes network worms

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 19 April 2013 9:06 AM
Conficker losing ground.
Android app hijacks airplanes 

Android app hijacks airplanes

In Applications - By Juha Saarinen, 12 April 2013 9:05 AM
Remote attack detailed.
Honeypot lures SCADA and PLC hackers 

Honeypot lures SCADA and PLC hackers

In Hackers - By Danielle Walker, 19 March 2013 9:08 AM
Most attacks traced to China.
Tool thwarts OS X malware tricks 

Tool thwarts OS X malware tricks

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 26 February 2013 10:33 AM
Fills gap left by Apple.
Hacked ATM plays Angry Birds 

Hacked ATM plays Angry Birds

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 22 February 2013 9:10 AM
Bank details captured.
51 critical infrastructure organisations breach in 2012: report 

51 critical infrastructure organisations breach in 2012: report

In Networks - By SC Australia Staff, 18 February 2013 12:46 PM
Nine lost proprietary data.
Queensland researchers seek 'real world' fix for TLS  

Queensland researchers seek 'real world' fix for TLS

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 13 February 2013 5:10 AM
Score $300k Govt research grant.
New phishing tool mimics logged in dashboards 

New phishing tool mimics logged in dashboards

In Messaging - By Darren Pauli, 6 February 2013 1:41 PM
Plays on TSURT.
Kiwi researchers demo third world bank hack 

Kiwi researchers demo third world bank hack

In Messaging - By Darren Pauli, 4 February 2013 2:26 PM
Audio one time passwords broken.
XSS attacks boomed 

XSS attacks boomed

In Applications - By SC Staff, 31 January 2013 9:40 AM
Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attacks remain the most prominent cyber attack method.
Crypto collisions cause denial of service in major hashes  

Crypto collisions cause denial of service in major hashes

In Crypto - By Darren Pauli, 30 January 2013 11:09 AM
Researchers poke holes in Murmurhash, CityHash, and others.
HP software bug makes printers pwned 

HP software bug makes printers pwned

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 24 January 2013 1:13 PM
Printing jobs nicked, machines bricked.
60% of exploits target two-year old bugs 

60% of exploits target two-year old bugs

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 24 January 2013 7:31 AM
Russia the hub of exploit writing.
Phishers duck researchers with filtered victim lists 

Phishers duck researchers with filtered victim lists

In Messaging - By Danielle Walker, 18 January 2013 4:33 AM
Bouncer list phishing redirects outsiders to 404 pages.
Patient data revealed in medical device hack 

Patient data revealed in medical device hack

In Hackers - By Darren Pauli, 17 January 2013 8:25 PM
DHS steps in, takes ownership of medical vulnerability research.
Canada ditches UNSW ethical hacking report 

Canada ditches UNSW ethical hacking report

In Hackers - By James Hale, 17 January 2013 12:25 PM
Research recommended hacktivism safeguards.
Linguistics identifies anonymous users 

Linguistics identifies anonymous users

In Hackers - By Darren Pauli, 9 January 2013 9:49 AM
Researchers reveal carders, hackers on underground forums.
Zero day holes found in popular online games 

Zero day holes found in popular online games

In Hackers - By Darren Pauli, 21 December 2012 1:41 PM
Details to be disclosed at BlackHat.
Researchers find crippling flaws in GPS 

Researchers find crippling flaws in GPS

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 10 December 2012 9:07 AM
Military, civilian systems crashed.
Telstra users safe from Twitter SMS flaw 

Telstra users safe from Twitter SMS flaw

In Web/client - By Darren Pauli, Dan Kaplan, 5 December 2012 9:19 AM
Others should use PIN protection.
Australia needs cookie privacy audit: researcher 

Australia needs cookie privacy audit: researcher

In Web/client - By Darren Pauli, 29 November 2012 12:05 PM
Information commissioner needs sharper teeth.
Researcher owns blue chip managed service platforms 

Researcher owns blue chip managed service platforms

In Cloud - By Darren Pauli, 18 November 2012 1:06 AM
Zero day dropped at #Kiwicon.
Malware funnels smartcard PINs to remote servers 

Malware funnels smartcard PINs to remote servers

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 15 November 2012 11:00 AM
USB authentication targeted.
Ransomware scammers hit half a million users in 18 days 

Ransomware scammers hit half a million users in 18 days

In Crypto - By Darren Pauli, 12 November 2012 3:03 PM
Attackers still active, remain on the run.
Co-lo VMs busted by crypto attack 

Co-lo VMs busted by crypto attack

In Cloud - By Darren Pauli, 6 November 2012 2:47 PM
Side-channel cache-sniffers steal keys.
Multiple critical flaws flagged in Sophos 

Multiple critical flaws flagged in Sophos

In Applications - By Tom Espiner, 6 November 2012 7:56 AM
Exploit could be "wormed within days".
Russian cyber crime prices fall 

Russian cyber crime prices fall

In Applications - By Tom Espiner, 1 November 2012 11:25 AM
Black market diversifies.
Researcher releases tools to switch off PLCs 

Researcher releases tools to switch off PLCs

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 29 October 2012 5:27 PM
System runs online without authentication.
Researchers detail laundry list of dodgy crypto deployments 

Researchers detail laundry list of dodgy crypto deployments

In Crypto - By Darren Pauli, 26 October 2012 4:46 PM
Developer hits back at 'rude' research.
Flaws allow 3G devices to be tracked  

Flaws allow 3G devices to be tracked

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 9 October 2012 10:57 AM
Devices trackable over any 3G network.
Android phones open to remote wipe vulnerability 

Android phones open to remote wipe vulnerability

In Applications - By Juha Saarinen, 26 September 2012 9:21 AM
Vendors slow to patch issue.
Phonetic attack commands crash bank phone lines 

Phonetic attack commands crash bank phone lines

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 17 September 2012 5:46 PM
Touch tone and voice activated systems open to attack.
Tool detects software plagiarism, theft and malware outbreaks 

Tool detects software plagiarism, theft and malware outbreaks

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 13 September 2012 4:21 PM
Tracks applications across Windows and Linux.
Software maps criminal networks 

Software maps criminal networks

In Networks - By Juha Saarinen, 27 August 2012 4:56 PM
Phone calls, social networks on the radar.
Melbourne researchers hide crypto keys on terabyte disc 

Melbourne researchers hide crypto keys on terabyte disc

In Crypto - By Darren Pauli, 17 August 2012 2:30 PM
Tiny, polarised rods to boost security.
Anti-phishing phone bug trial begins 

Anti-phishing phone bug trial begins

In Risk - By Darren Pauli, 9 August 2012 12:12 PM
Banks to freeze accounts during phone phishing calls.
Highly persistent backdoor infects BIOS, peripherals  

Highly persistent backdoor infects BIOS, peripherals

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 3 August 2012 12:31 AM
Malware hides from forensic analysis.
#BlackHat: Researchers bypass iris scanners with biometric clones 

#BlackHat: Researchers bypass iris scanners with biometric clones

In Applications - By Marcos Colon, 30 July 2012 12:37 PM
Researchers tap templates.
Prototype rootkit silently modifies Android apps 

Prototype rootkit silently modifies Android apps

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 4 July 2012 10:43 AM
Installed web browser replaced with keylogger doppelganger.
RSA tokens 'broken' in 13 minutes 

RSA tokens 'broken' in 13 minutes

In Crypto - By Dan Raywood, 27 June 2012 12:52 PM
The fragility of authentication tokens against established attack vectors have been detailed.
Diablo hacker springs reverse engineers 

Diablo hacker springs reverse engineers

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 21 June 2012 2:18 PM
“Why are you researching my trojan?”
Hackers having less success in draining bank accounts 

Hackers having less success in draining bank accounts

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 15 June 2012 7:47 AM
Hijack attempts on the rise.
ICS security firms targeted in phishing campaign 

ICS security firms targeted in phishing campaign

In Networks - By Darren Pauli, 14 June 2012 2:10 PM
Defence contractors, universities primed.
Virtualisation holes detailed on multiple platforms 

Virtualisation holes detailed on multiple platforms

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 14 June 2012 10:46 AM
Local privileged escalation, virtual machine escapes possible.
Herpes bot master outed 

Herpes bot master outed

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 24 May 2012 7:57 PM
Lax identity protection leads to downfall.
Targeted attacks cost biz $200k, study says 

Targeted attacks cost biz $200k, study says

In Networks - By Marcos Colon, 23 May 2012 10:08 AM
A recent survey indicates that successful targeted attacks end up costing companies more than $200,000.
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