The hacker responsible for leaking 400GB of data from Italian spyware firm Hacking Team has published a tutorial video showing those seeking to follow in his footsteps how to hackRead More →
Phone numbers exposed in borked verification portal Security consultant Arne Swinnen says Instagram has shuttered brute force authentication holes that allowed hijacking of some 20 million accounts. The NVISO infosecRead More →
An archive detailing a historic hack and its fallout has been handed over to the National Museum of Computing. Previously, the cache of documents, press cuttings and letters had beenRead More →
Phineas Fisher donates 25 Bitcoin to Syria’s Rojava region.Phineas Fisher, also known as Hack Back, the hacker who breached Hacking Team last summer, revealed on Reddit yesterday that he hackedRead More →
A LinkedIn hack from back in 2012 is still causing problems for its users. The companyannounced this morning that another data set from the hack, which contains over 100 millionRead More →
More suspects are expected to admit their crimes as well. Vadym Iermolovych, 28, of Kiev, Ukraine, pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in the hacking of business newswire services Marketwired, PRRead More →
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such as the Redirector.Paco Trojan have taken abuse to a whole newRead More →
A security expert discovered security flaws that could let anyone to steal as much as $25 Billion from one of the biggest Indian banks. The security researcher Sathya Prakash discoveredRead More →
John McAfee, noted liar and one-time creator of anti-virus software, apparently tried to convince reporters that he hacked the encryption used on WhatsApp. To do this, he attempted to sendRead More →
Popular ISP utility exposed to new cache poisoning attack. Squison is the name of a recently discovered security bug in the Squid proxy server, a popular Linux utility deployed by manyRead More →
