The travel booking systems used by millions of people every day are woefully insecure and lack modern authentication methods. This allows attackers to easily modify other people’s reservations, cancel their flights and even use the refunds to book tickets for themselves, according a team of researchers who analyzed this online ecosystem. Karsten Nohl and Nemanja […]
“The problem is that the system has many vulnerabilities and attackers can analyze the firmware to identify and later exploit the vulnerabilities,” said Cesar Cerrudo, chief technology officer of IOActive Labs. “If the systems were secure then having the firmware available shouldn’t be a problem, but that’s not usually the case.” “The implied potential impacts […]
Regular readers of Krebs on Security will know that small and medium sized businesses and organizations have been the target of cybercrime gangs for several years now. What you might not know is which law enforcement agency investigates those crimes. It turns out that many ZeuS banking trojan investigations were done by the (little known) […]
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