No, the hackers weren’t mad at any dinosaurs. On Christmas Eve, Egyptian hackers associated with the Anonymous Rabaa Team have defaced the website of the Ministry of the Environment in CostaRead More →
Presently, there is a worldwide shortage of skilled hackers and salaries are rising rapidly. This is a great time to pursue a career in hacking—and this is a good timeRead More →
A repeat of last year’s gaming outage looks to have been avoided after hacker group Phantom Group claimed it won’t target Sony and Microsoft. Last Christmas, gamers were outraged whenRead More →
Wristband and armband devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers could be used by attackers to spy on you! We have discussed several times about the possibility to exploit IoT devicesRead More →
Hacking group keeps its promise, downs Steam for Christmas.The SkidNP hacking group kept their promise and started attacking Steam servers on Christmas, after a spat with Phantom Squad earlier thisRead More →
Facebook’s plan to bring limited, free internet access to India has hit a hurdle: a regulator in the country wants it blocked. India’s telecom regulator has asked that the service beRead More →
Coding snafu leads to prisoners getting out of jail too soon.Washington state Governor Jay Inslee has admitted to a software error on the part of the Washington State Department ofRead More →
Hyatt Hotels Corp said on Wednesday that its payment processing system was infected with credit-card-stealing malware in an attack discovered three weeks ago, the latest in a series of breachesRead More →
The Raspberry Pi Foundation was offered cash to smuggle malware onto its bargain-basement credit-card-size computers, we’re told. Liz Upton, the Foundation’s director of communications, today revealed an email from aRead More →
An email popped into the inbox of a famous radio host this month, sent by a young man from the Bahamas, with an offer he hoped would turn the headRead More →
Last year I together with my friend Sourav Kar made the world’s smallest code which could crash whatsapp. In a video demonstration, we have showed that how a 2000 wordsRead More →
Cybercriminals are using the friendly face of Facebook and Twitter to distribute banking trojans that are specifically targeting Brazilians. The attackers are targeting Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users and are using social engineeringtacticsRead More →
Quantum cryptography, considered to be one of the most complex and unbreakable methods of encryption, has been found to be vulnerable to attack, according to a major new study. PublishedRead More →
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. BobRead More →
The websites of the torrent clients Deluge and qBittorrent, as well as the torrent site SumoTorrent, have reportedly been compromised. Access to the stolen user information including emails and hashedRead More →
A security researcher discovered a new variant of the Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player flaw. The French security researcher “Kafeine”Read More →
Commission faults Oracle’s Java SE update process with making consumers’ computers insecure. Oracle received a public slap on the wrist from the US Federal Trade Commission over Java SE, the desktopRead More →
SANRIO, THE TOKYO-BASED owner of the Hello Kitty brand, may be Japan’s global purveyor of kitschy cuteness. But the leak of 3.3 million of their website’s registered users’ data isn’tRead More →
Some lucky users are about to have a merry Christmas.Users that had the bad luck of getting infected with the Gomasom ransomware can now start sending Christmas gifts to FabianRead More →
Microsoft SmartScreen, integrated with Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and the Windows operating system, has helped protect users from socially engineered attacks such as phishing and malware downloads since its initialRead More →
