Short Bytes: In the list of top 10 most pirated movies and TV shows of 2015, Interstellar tops the chart with over 46 million downloads. On the other hand, Game of Thrones is maintaining its first position for last four years in a row with over 14.4 million downloads. Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows […]
Images | Project Solus Short Bytes: Solus OS, pegged as the fastest booting Linux OS, was released in December. Shipping with Linux Kernel 4.4.3, Solus 1.1 is available for download along with its own desktop environment called Budgie. Read more to know all the features of Solus OS and find the download links below. We […]
Coinbase website DDoSed by hacker group. A hacker group consisting of two hackers, @L7Crew and @An0CBR claimed to have brought down the Bitcoin exchange website Coinbase. The Coinbase website is offline and opening the same presents a cached copy of the website. Coinbase is a bitcoin wallet and exchange company headquartered in San Francisco California, founded by Brian Armstrong and […]
Short Bytes: A new flaw in the card transaction has been revealed by the German security experts. This flaw, capable of cloning the entire card and hacking the entire protocol, cannot be removed by just a mere software patch. But banks and card companies are not reacting to it. Know why? So who is at […]
As all of you know, reconnaissance is critical to being successful in a pentest or hack. Recon is where we gather all the information we need to determine the best strategy for hacking. Without good recon, we are likely to waste many hours and be unsuccessful. Professional hackers know that good recon is key to […]
Mintcast adware uses user.js settings files for persistence.Two PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) are secretly turning off Safe Browsing support in Firefox to make sure they can deliver unsolicited ads and even malware if their creators ever wish to do so. The two PUPs are Shell&Services and Mintcast 3.0.1. These are browser add-ons for Firefox, Chrome, […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous claimed to have averted a terrorist attack in Italy planned by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) or Daesh terrorist group. Anonymous claimed the ”heroic” act on Twitter via @OpParisOfficial account which was created after the Paris terrorist attacks. The hacktivists also claimed that they are silently working on tracking Daesh terrorists […]
MyGov, a portal used for managing various Australian government services is asking users to turn off their two-factor verification while traveling abroad. Portal’s administrator has been advising this move to the users on twitter. When on a trip outside Australia, users are required to change their SIM to a locally accepted SIM card and during this time if they want […]
Anonymous hacker collective has attacked the official website of Asia Pacific telecommunity and defaced it in protest against growing plans for internet censorship in Asia. The hackers gained access of the website’s admin panel (running Drupal) and from there, leaked all the data stored on the website along with defacing the site with one of their […]
Short Bytes: Based upon the data from Google Trends, fossBytes has brought to you the list of most popular programming languages of 2015. The list is dominated by languages like Java, Python, C, and others. The learn to code movement gained a wave of great interest in the recent years. The year 2015 wasn’t any exception […]
Short Bytes: YouTube has released its year end list of the most popular videos of 2015 to honor the best content creators. These popular videos range from the President Obama edition of Mean Tweets to the Lip Sync Battle With Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon. The year 2015 saw an unprecedented rise in the […]
A software bug in Washington State Department of Corrections (DoC) has been handing freedom to the inmates well before their sentence was due to end — Each year, over 3200 prisoners benefitted from this bug since 2002. Supreme Court ruling- The starting point All this started when a Supreme Court amended the 1995 law on […]
The Chicago-based hotel chain, Hyatt, has discovered a virus in their payment processing system which is used to process payments to some of its hotel locations. The company soon alerted its guests to check their credit card statements for any unauthorized payments and report it to the authorities immediately. “As soon as Hyatt discovered the […]
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 Costa Rica, and more specifically, two pages with details about the System of Conservation Areas and the Isla del Coco (Cocos Island), the inspiration for Isla […]
Short Bytes: Bill Gates has just released the list of this year’s best news on his blog. Ranging from the eradication of polio from Africa to the growth of mobile banking, he has included many positive takeaways from 2015. Take a look and share your views. Just like each year, Bill Gates has revealed his […]
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 time to discuss how to become a hacker. Education vs. Experience There are many paths to entering this profession. Unlike, say medicine, where there is a […]
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 when both the PlayStation and Xbox networks were taken offline by hackers through a denial of service attack. But, despite threats of a repeat this year, […]
For any social engineer / dox specialist, this is the ultimate search tool. This third-party tool combs through your own timeline or through the public one and puts it in an easy-to-understand interface. Head over to searchisback and find the people you are looking for. The broad categories are people, events, posts and shares, and […]
Stealers are a very common form of malware and at times are a major threat to your browser security. Almost all browsers have “Remember My Password” feature and almost 90% of users use this feature so they don’t need to type username and password again, but this could be very dangerous when your system has […]
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 devices to spy on individuals. Lack of security by design and poor security settings could open the door to hackers. A Smartwatch or afitness tracker can […]
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 this week when the two groups had a “territory fight,” defacing each others websites and calling each other “skids” (script kiddies, derogatory hacker term). It now […]