RSA was the victim of an extremely sophisticated cyber attack which resulted in the possible theft of the two-factor code used by their SecurID products. The exact risk to customers isn’t clear, but there is risk that the assurance of two factor authentication has been reduced.

A security researcher created a $1,500 cell phone base station kit (including a laptop and two RF antennas) that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls (non Gold Lock) in the clear. Most of the price is for the laptop he used to operate [...]

A group of cryptographers has developed a new attack that has broken Kasumi, the encryption algorithm used to secure traffic on 3G GSM wireless networks. The technique enables them to recover a full key by using a tactic known as a related-key attack, but experts say it is not the end of the world for [...]

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.

Reports are in that T-Mobile, the ever popular US communications firm has recently became victim to the theft of highly sensitive data on operations, customers and also financial records.  According to postings on the internet, this information has already made its way to the underground auctions where it awaits the highest bidder. T-Mobile has recently [...]

Recently, an industrial company in Texas has suffered the consequences of lax security policies when hackers managed to steal over $1.2 million dollars in a mere 30 minutes. Jugal Malani, owner of the Sugar Land Company located in the USA recently received the blunt end of the stick, when his network was exposed and his [...]

The University of London has just published news pertaining to a serious vulnerability in the popular Open Secure Shell(OpenSSH) encryption algorithm. Their shocking revelation is that attackers are able to effectively ‘steal’ 32 bits of plaintext data in an exploit, which is active in some versions of OpenSSH on the linux platform. This recent vulnerability [...]

In today’s world of wireless networks and internet communications, would you be surprised to know that the majority of information you send over the internet is viewable by third parties? The shocking truth is that many of our activities over the Internet are highly vulnerable to third party man in the middle attacks. This presents [...]

Recently, security groups have been receiving increased reports of hackers successfully intercepting SMS messages and subsequently gaining access to banking details of individuals. This shocking revelation came to light just recently, when the security group “Ultrascan” managed to acquire not just the full working details of this exploit, but also all the hardware required. This [...]