The Israeli Public Utility Authority is suffering one of the largest cyber attack that the country has experienced, Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday. TheRead More →
OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack thatRead More →
Apple has taken a strong stance on privacy ever since the FBI began loudly demanding encryption backdoors into its products. The company’s statements about its iMessage service seem plain asRead More →
Another educational open-source ransomware project goes bad. Cyber-crooks have used the open-source code of the EDA2 ransomware to create the Magic ransomware strain, which has been spotted in real-life attacksRead More →
Attackers are adding unauthorized code at the top of infected websites, over 3,500 8sites already infected. Alarms are ringing in Symantec’s offices, as its research team has discovered a massiveRead More →
Scans for Fortinet devices have intensified. An unknown group has been scanning the Internet for old Fortinet equipment that includes a secret SSH backdoor account that can be exploited to takeRead More →
Highly privileged account could be used to hack customers’ networks, researchers warn. A company that supplies audio-visual and building control equipment to the US Army, the White House, and otherRead More →
Intel-powered laptops are safe again. So are desktops. Intel has released version 2.4 of the Intel Driver Update Utility, fixing a critical security flaw (CVE-2016-1493) that enabled attackers to interceptRead More →
Steam scammer caught red-handed by Panda Security researcher. A crafty Steam user created four Chrome extensions that would empty out his victim’s Steam inventory and send all their game perks toRead More →
At some point over the weekend, the official website of Belinda Carlisle was compromised, displaying banner ads for a Canadian Pharmacy page. Here’s the Google search result for “Belinda Carlisle”Read More →
Ukrainian Government is accusing Russia of organizing hacker attacks against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine areRead More →
At the recent ShmooCon conference a researcher presented a LastPass phishing attack that could allow hackers to steal your password. We discussed several times the importance of password managers suchRead More →
The stolen Bitcoin & Litecoin were worth over $5.7 million. Cryptsy, a website for trading Bitcoin, Litecoin, and other smaller crypto-currencies, announced a security incident, accusing the developer of Lucky7Coin ofRead More →
Data for 18,000 users stolen in the incident. The website of the Faithless British EDM band has been breached and the personal information of over 18,000 fans stolen by a yetRead More →
Short Bytes: With changing times, the international community has banned the whale hunting practice. However, it’s a common knowledge that Japanese people call whale meat their “nostalgia food” as itRead More →
One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director ofRead More →
API used a simple authentication scheme, exposing users to CSRF attacks that allowed third-parties to hijack accounts. Verizon fixed an issue in its My FiOS REST API that would haveRead More →
Netflix Hack : Here Is How To Open Up Movie Portals You Didn’t Know Existed. You probably know that Netflix is a online movie streaming website. As of October 2015, Netflix reportedRead More →
The hacking group New World Hacking that claimed the responsibility for the BBC attack revealed that the DDoS attack reached the 602 GBps. On December 31th, the BBC website andRead More →
Russian ISP Eurobyte fails to answer Cisco’s emails, allows malvertising campaign to go on undisturbed. Cisco’s Talos research team has managed to identify and partially shut down a cyber-criminal group thatRead More →
