Tag: hack
Microsoft Office: how to protect yourself from this huge security flaw used to hack you
Microsoft alerts us to an actively exploited security flaw affecting the Office suite. The company also presents the solution to be put in place to deactivate the functionality in question…
You can hack an Instagram account… even before it’s created!
Getting your online account hacked is bad enough. But getting it hacked before it’s even created is incredibly worse. Two security researchers have just revealed that dozens of online services…
Viasat hack: the European Union and its allies point the finger at Russia
The European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom officially attributed to Russia the cyberattack on the Viasat satellite service, which irreparably damaged more than 72,000 terminals in Europe.…
War in Ukraine: the underside of the devastating Russian cyberattacks
This is called “war hybrid “: for a country, and in particular Russia, it is a method of weakening others, by more or less subtle means. There are many levers:…
We could hack tens of millions of Android smartphones with a single sound file
Check Point security researchers have found critical flaws in a wide range of audio decoders from Qualcomm (CVE-2021-30351) and MediaTek (CV-2021-0674, CVE-2021-0675).These vulnerabilities would allow remote control of an Android…
Cyberattack: How Ukraine thwarted a hack into its electricity network
Ukraine, December 2015. In the power distribution center ofIvano Frankvist, the technicians see on their screen the mouse pointer move by itself and cut off the various electricity delivery points.…
This is the biggest cryptocurrency hack in history
The announcement came as a shock: Axie Infinity, the most popular game play to earn (“we play to win”) was the subject of a hack that will go down in…
Biggest Cryptocurrency Hack in History
The announcement came as a shock: Axie Infinity, the most popular game play to earn (“we play to win”) was the subject of a hack that will go down in…
Lapsus$’s Okta hack was… a real walk in the park
Outsourcing part of your information system is not always a good idea, especially if the security level of the third-party company is poor. Hacking Okta will probably, from this point…
Ukraine: “The first cyber war in the history of mankind has begun”
In Ukraine, a Russian cyberattack on Monday brought down Ukrtelecom, the leading Internet service provider! Since the start of the conflict, Ukraine has recorded 60 cyberattacks, and it’s the whole…