Mousejack attack – Researchers at Bastille firm demonstrated how to hack computers by exploiting a flaw in many wireless mouse and keyboard dongles. A bogus wireless computer mice and keyboards canRead More →
Attackers used legitimate tools on mobile devices to create variants of Android.Lockdroid.E. Symantec has seen several variants of a known ransomware family (Android.Lockdroid.E) that were developed on Android devices using theRead More →
Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcherRead More →
Anonymous hacked the CIMD portal managed by the France’s Ministry of Defense to protest against French foreign arms trade operations. The Anonymous collective has hacked one of the websites managedRead More →
Six years ago, the cyber-attacks barely reached 25,000. Utah officials are saying that the number of cyber-attacks they’ve seen against local state organizations has grown exponentially in the past six years.Read More →
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 theRead More →
Employees at six Russian banks were sent spoofed emails delivering Trojan.Ratopak in a narrow, targeted attack. In December 2015, employees from several Russian banks were targeted with spoofed emails, aRead More →
Some Tor servers may leak timezone info via gzipped files. Jose Carlos Norte, developer for the eyeOS virtual desktop project, has discovered an obscure setting in the HTTP GZIP compression formatRead More →
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threatRead More →
Part of the point in presenting small, hack-minded tutorials a la “Edit an Image in Python” or “Send an Email from Python” is that some subset of readers who actuallyRead More →
Anonymous launched a series of cyber attacks against government websites of Saudi Arabia to protest the execution of 47 people, including Mr. Sheikh Nimr Al Nimr. The Anonymous collective isRead More →
GPS hacking has alway been a hot topic on security conferences over the past few years. But the contents are over academic and the cost for necessary equipment is tooRead More →
Utah state computer systems experiences 300 million hacking attacks a day due to NSA data center in the state. 300,00,000 hacking attempts in a day! This is what the computer systemsRead More →
The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday, intruders were able to compromise it and serve malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The Linux Mint website hadRead More →
IBM X-Force threat intelligence has found that the source code for Android malware GM Bot was leaked on an underground board in December 2015. The leaked code for the malwareRead More →
I love Linux. After many years using Ubuntu as my default operating system (I switch to Windows, sometimes), I can hardly think of going back. So I was very excited,Read More →
NMAP is an essential tool in any hacker’s arsenal. Originally written by Gordon Lyon aka Fydor, it’s used to locate hosts and services and create a map of the network.Read More →
Attackers exploit eBay’s lackluster security policy. The JSF*** XSS bug that cyber-security firm Check Point discovered two weeks ago is being used in real world attacks on the eBay platform, inRead More →
Phishing scheme gained illegal access to accounts storing 161 nude images. An Oregon man has admitted he tricked hundreds of people into divulging their Apple and Gmail passwords in a schemeRead More →
Los Angeles hospital paid hackers $17,000 ransom in Bitcoins to decrypt medical records. We had earlier reported that hackers had infected the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles with a ransomwareRead More →
