hacker shouts abuse in child surveillance camera
a hacker exploited a vulnerability in a device marketed as a 'baby monitor ideal for shouting abuse to a child two years in Texas. The baby's parents heard a voice from the camera as he led offensive language and sexualised in their young child who was asleep in bed The device is manufactured by Foscam, which recently released a patch for the vulnerabilities emergency of this kind, although it is not known if the parents had applied for emergency updates. The child's parents described the fact that their daughter is deaf as "something of a blessing" in the circumstances.
malware using the mobile ad networks to steal money
Cybercriminals from Asia are reportedly using mobile advertising networks to steal money from their victims. Application developers typically evaluate ad networks that they choose to work with prior to concluding agreements, but those who let themselves open to malicious ad networks. These networks can manage their own software in otherwise legitimate applications, and download malware to the user's smartphone. This malware then sends text messages to premium numbers and rate downloads instructions from a control server and control, effectively siphoning off money from the user. Android users are invited to download applications only through Google Play, which manages its own analysis for these types of scams.
Google raises bug bounty program rewards
Google announced that it paid nearly $ 2 million to security researchers who discovered bugs to the company. To celebrate the success of the reward system, Google is now set to increase the amount of money on offer to anyone who alerts the first bugs in the future. In some cases, this could mean an increase of up to five times the previous award. Provide a patch and the bug report will still earn a bonus researchers, and premiums will continue to be rewarded for discovering bugs in critical open source software components.
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