WhatsApp now uses Signal protocol, which was largely funded by US taxpayers. WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a TuesdayRead More →
Rupture framework used to upgrade three-year-old BREACH framework and hack Facebook and Gmail 500 times faster. Security researchers have expanded and improved a three-year-old cyber-attack that could steal information from websitesRead More →
Brian Farell told feds: “You’re not going to find much of a bigger fish than me.” Last week, a federal judge in Washington formally accepted the guilty plea of Brian Farrell, theRead More →
A database containing records of 50 Million Turkish Citizens appeared online in the weekend. Is it a new or a recycled archive? Details of almost 50 Million Turkish citizens haveRead More →
Google removes Chrome extension that hijacked Web browsers. Google has intervened and banned the Better History Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store after users reported that it started taking overRead More →
ShortBytes: In a recent find out, it has been revealed how NSA implants trojan firmware in the networking devices being delivered to the targeted customers. You can also read anRead More →
Technology vendor Cisco is pushing out security updates to customers to address a critical vulnerability found in its recently introduced line of FirePower firewall products. The vulnerability, according to Cisco, allowsRead More →
The FBI issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware, why it is so dangerous? It is emergency, every week security experts launchRead More →
A huge leak of confidential documents has revealed how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth. Eleven million documents were leaked from one of the world’sRead More →
The fix? No patch, just destroy all extensions. Black Hat Asia The most popular Firefox extensions with millions of active users are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines andRead More →
US and UK are planning to simulate a cyber attacks on nuclear plants, to test their resilience in the light of the nuclear security summit. In the light of the recentRead More →
The Rokku Ransomware is a new infection currently being spread in email attachments. When infected, a victim’s data files will be encrypted and then ransomed back for .24 bitcoins or approximatelyRead More →
Two of security researchers have shown how hackers can target connected lightbulbs to exfiltrate sensitive data from Air-Gapped networks. Two of security researchers from the Weizmann Institute have shown howRead More →
Petya is different from the other popular ransomware these days. Instead of encrypting files one by one, it denies access to the full system by attacking low-level structures on theRead More →
Hacker tried to warn the company about their security issue but was ignored, so he used it against them. A hacker known under the name of TheNeoBoss apparently breached the PaperRead More →
Lauri Love faces extradition to US over hitting Federal Reserve, among others. At a court hearing earlier this month, the UK’s National Crime Authority (NCA) demanded that Lauri Love, a British computerRead More →
FOR THE PAST few years, Trevor Paglen has been at the vanguard of a movement of fine artists who have led gallery-goers to grapple with the realities of online privacyRead More →
A Columbian hacker claims he helped the candidate Enrique Peña Nieto in winning the Mexican presidential election in 2012. Until now we have seen something of similar only in the TVRead More →
Hacking like in the movies! Sometimes it’s that easy.If you ever want to impress your friends and hack doors with one command and a push of a button, like inRead More →
We have been alerted to a recent Steam scam, thanks to one gamer who is quick to inform her friends in the gaming platform’s Activity feed about her encounter withRead More →
