Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by [...]

This 8 minute video demonstrates how easy it is to penetrate a WEP protected WI-FI network. In case your network is using WEP encryption, any data passing through the network is exposed, including files, emails, documents, and passwords.

At the Black Hat security conference, Austrian IT security specialist Peter Kleissner presented a bootkit called Stoned which is capable of bypassing the TrueCrypt partition and system encryption. A bootkit combines a rootkit with the ability to modify a PC’s Master Boot Record, enabling the malware to be activated even before the operating system is [...]

iPhone 3G – not yet ready for corporate usage, due to lacking security. This quick demonstration shows how easily and how quickly law enforcement agencies and hackers are able to recover the raw disk image from an iPhone 3G[s]… and how anyone with a very basic skill set could get to all your live AND [...]

The United States military has recently announced the creation of a new “cyber command”, which is intended to defend US interests. It should also give the US military the power to launch cyber offensives and wage war on the digital battlefield, in a bid to defend against the increasing threats against military computer networks. This [...]

News Reports have recently surfaced revealing that the National Security Agencies surveillance of American citizens may be wider ranging than previously thought. A recent announcement by Congress suggested that the top secret spy organization’s monitoring of domestic internet traffic has gone beyond legal limits. This news comes as a result of leaked reports detailing the [...]

The British Government has recently announced the creation of a new agency focused on cybersecurity, as one of the latest measures to provide the country with a way to respond to the ever growing threat of digital attack. The Office of Cyber Security (OCS) will be the first dedicated agency for the defense of the [...]

Recently, reports have surfaced that the non jailbroken versions of the highly popular Apple iPhone may be vulnerable to direct memory attack, because of attempts to force execution of unsigned code. A student at the University of Milan recently announced that he had found a way to force unsigned code to be run using a [...]

Software giant Microsoft still has to act regarding the potential dangers of insufficient wireless keyboard security. Microsoft, which produces millions of keyboards and input devices each year, has yet to acknowledge the threat which was originally discovered over two years ago. The vulnerability is essentially a man-in-the middle attack, which uses a hidden receiver to [...]

For the average consumer, data theft equates to the threat of having personal information stolen, bank records and maybe credit card details.  This can allow hackers to perpetrate identity fraud and whilst it can cause significant harm against an individual there are now a great many countermeasures in place to try to protect against date [...]