Skimming attacks on ATMs increased at an alarming rate last year for both American and European banks and their customers, according to recent stats collected by fraud trackers. The trend appearsRead More →
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) utility has had to shut down systems, phone lines in response to a ransomware-based attack. The Lansing Board of Water & LightRead More →
Flaw allowed anyone to edit & take control over .as domains. A British security researcher that goes online only by the name of InfoSec Guy revealed today that American Samoa domainRead More →
Hackers leak 1.4GB database of information after breaching Qatar National Bank.A group of unknown hackers have claimed to have hacked into the servers of Qatar National Bank (QNB), based inRead More →
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to beRead More →
BeautifulPeople.comLeaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters. This is a shame hack, a website called site BeautifulPeople.com which only accepts those people who are fair and beautiful was hacked by unknownRead More →
Windows comes with a tool called the Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, that can be used by system administrators to receive information and notifications from Windows. Using WMI, an administratorRead More →
“This is not a joke,” e-mail threatening massive DDoS says. Except it is. In less than two months, online businesses have paid more than $100,000 to scammers who set up aRead More →
Hacktivists spring into action following another mysterious police shooting that ends with someone’s death. Friday afternoon, members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous’ divisions, launched DDoS attacks againstRead More →
Can you believe it! A mere $10 second hand router was responsible for the massive $80 million Bangladesh Bank hack. Back in February, hackers had managed to hack into one ofRead More →
The security expert Chris Vickery discovered a 132 GB MongoDB database open online and containing 93.4 million Mexican voter records. Once again a MongoDB poorly configurated exposed million records, once again dataRead More →
FBI director James Comey has given us our first hint at how much money the FBI paid to unlock the infamous iPhone at the center of its high-profile encryption fightRead More →
No admin privileges are required to run the attack. Clever hackers can bypass Microsoft’s Windows AppLocker security feature by abusing a hidden trait of the Regsvr32 command-line utility that’s normally usedRead More →
Russian developer known online as ‘Gribodemon’ and ‘Harderman’ gets nine years in US jail, while malware vendor ‘Bx1’ receives 15 years in billion-dollar case. The Russian creator of a computerRead More →
Approach relies on already installed code, including widely used glibc library. New research into the “Rowhammer” bug that resides in certain types of DDR memory chips raises a troubling new prospect:Read More →
Following WhatsApp’s move to add end-to-end encryption to its platform, another big messaging company is joining the wave of apps turning on expanded privacy features.Viber — a messaging app with 711 million+ usersRead More →
Malware uses clever trick to avoid detection. A new version of the NewPosThings PoS malware is using a clever technique to extract data from infected PoS terminals that almost no securityRead More →
Experts analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious RTF documents created using the same Four Element Sword builder. Security experts at Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have spottedRead More →
Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur says he helped Turkish hacker group RedHack gain unauthorised access to servers. Everybody who is linked with the online hacktivist group knows Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur.Read More →
New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discoveredRead More →
