Acecard evolved from a simple information stealer to the most sophisticated Android banking trojan ever seen. The Android malware scene has a new top threat if we are to believe the security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, who identified during the past months a massive campaign being carried out using the once-benign Android Acecard malware family.
First spotted in February 2014, Acecard was initially a simple sniffer that collected information on its victims, sending it to its C&C server. Many security researchers dismissed the trojan as a simple-minded tool and ignored it,…
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Docker announced a new container control center today it’s calling the Docker Data Center (DDC), an integrated administrative console that has been designed to give large and small businesses control over creating, managing and shipping containers.
The DDC is a new tool made up of various commercial pieces including Docker Universal Control Plane (which also happens to be generally available today) and Docker Trusted Registry. It also includes open source pieces such as Docker Engine. The idea is to give companies the ability to manage the entire lifecycle of Dockerized applications from one central administrative interface.
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ARM’s Cortex CPU core designs are widely used by all kinds of chipmakers who don’t want to create their own ARM CPU designs from scratch, so it’s important to pay attention when the company announces a new one. The ones we see the most often around here are the mainstream 64-bit cores for smartphones and tablets—the high-end Cortex A72 and A57 and the mid-end Cortex A53—but ARM produces a variety of smaller designs for ultra-low-power and embedded applications, too.
Enter the Cortex A32, a new super-small ARM core designed specifically for wearables, Internet of Things things, embedded systems, low-cost boards like the Raspberry Pi or Pi Zero, and other places where power, space, and cost savings are more important than raw performance.
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Countless wireless mice and keyboards can be hacked from 100 yards away leaving their host machines and the networks they are attached to open to malware, Bastille has discovered.
The problem, which is being called MouseJack, affects Amazon, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, Logitech and Microsoft products, the company says, and likely more vendors’ gear that they haven’t tested. Logitech alone shipped its billionth mouse in 2008, so the problem is widespread.
CERT-CC at Carnegie Mellon University issued an advisory about the vulnerability today.
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