Worried about Windows 10’s deep-reaching user tracking? Some of it’s coming to Windows 7 and 8, too. Windows 10 is a deliciously good operating system, all things considered, but its abundant user-tracking has prompted many privacy-minded individuals to stay pat with older versions of Windows. Now, Microsoft’s providing those concerned individuals a reason to upgrade. […]
Image: Dailydot Short Bytes: The infamous DDoS attacks have increased at a staggering pace in the recent past. According to a latest report, DDoS attacks have grown by 132 percent compared to this time last year. The internet has also witnessed 12 Mega Attacks in Q2 2015. Do you know that Pentagon has announced that […]
Cyber-attackers launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) violation on law enforcement agency in apparent revenge for previous arrests. Cyber-attackers have taken down the website of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in apparent revenge for arrests made last week. The NCA website was temporarily down on Tuesday morning, four days after six teenagers were released on […]
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A brand-new advanced banking Trojan discovered in the wild has been named “Shifu” by IBM Security X-Force, after the Japanese word for thief. The malware appears to have been active since as early as April 2015; it was unearthed by IBM Security antifraud platforms through continuous protection of customer endpoints all over the world. Shifu currently […]
Security experts at Sensecy have uncovered ORX-Locker, a Darknet Ransomware-as-a-service platform that could allow everyone to become a cyber criminal. It is becoming even easier to become a cyber-criminal thanks to the model of sale known as malware-as-a-service that offers off-the-shelf malware for rent or sale. Recently malware authors started to offer also Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), […]
Add Kali linux repositories Remove kali linux repositories Install Kali linux tools Python 2.7 Operating System (example Ubuntu) sudo su git clone https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin.git && cp katoolin/katoolin.py /usr/bin/katoolin chmod +x /usr/bin/katoolin sudo katoolin
A new piece of data-stealing malware has a real thirst for credentials—and the potential for worse trouble down the line. IBM today published a report on CoreBot, generic information-stealing malware designed with enough flexibility to soon ramp up its capabilities to exfiltrate data in real time. “CoreBot appears to be quite modular, which means that […]
A newly discovered malware family that preys on jailbroken iPhones has collected login credentials for more than 225,000 Apple accounts, making it one of the largest Apple account compromises to be caused by malware. KeyRaider, as the malware family has been dubbed, is distributed through a third-party repository ofCydia, which markets itself as an alternative […]
Some recent data dump released by WikiLeaks on their website contains documents infected with malicious software that can easily infect anyone accessing them, according to the discovery made by an autonomous data researcher Josh Wieder. Wieder, apart from a researcher, is a system administrator who goes out of his way to inspect files and documents […]
Image: blog.kaspersky.com Short Bytes: Researchers have found that hackers have stolen more than 250,000 valid Apple accounts using an iOS malware named KeyRaider. However, this threat only affects the jailbroken devices. Here is a news that might worry you if you recently jailbroke your iPhone. The research team at Palo Alto networks and WeipTech have unveiled a […]
Short Bytes: Windows 10 forced updates are one of the most controversial features of the OS and the company has been facing much flak over this issue. Today, I’m going to tell you 5 different methods to disable Windows 10 forced updates. Each week we are presented with the new numbers that claim that more […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued an alert, urging users to watch out for a spear phishing email campaign that’s infecting victims with the Sednit malware. This was brought to EFF’s attention by Google’s security team, after the electronicfrontierfoundation.org domain was flagged in one of their routine scans. The official EFF domain name is […]
ussian-speaking hackers have breached 97 websites, mostly dating-related, and stolen login credentials, putting hundreds of thousands of users at risk. Many of the websites are niche dating ones similar to Ashley Madison, according to a list compiled by Hold Security, a Wisconsin-based company that specializes in analyzing data breaches. A few are job-related sites. Batches […]
Image: Twitter Short Bytes: The Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest superstar, has been hacked and some adult sites have been added as ‘following’. A tweet from Mr. Bachchan’s official Twitter handler @SrBachhan says: “WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked ! Sex sites planted as ‘following’ ! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t […]
Ilya Karpov of Russian security outfit Positive Technologies has reported nine vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control system kit used in critical operations from petrochemical labs and power plants up to the Large Hadron Collider. The holes, now patched, also include two for Schneider Electric kit and cover a mix of remote and local exploits that […]
British police have today announced the arrest of six people in connection with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that attempted to bring down websites belonging to – amongst others – a national newspaper, a school and a number of online retailers. The link between the attacks is that they all appear to have been conducted using […]
Short Bytes: iOS 9 is finally and it has tons of small and big improvements that will change the way you use your Apple device. Based upon my experience of the iOS 9, I’m going to tell you about the best iOS 9 features. The new OS isn’t some kind of complete overhaul, but it […]
Short Bytes: Sometimes, slow web browsing could be a real headache and it’s irritating for most of us. If your data connection is fast enough, this could be a result of your sluggish web browser. To solve this issue, we are here with some useful tips and tricks to make your Google Chrome faster and thus […]
It looks as if users really don’t care for their online privacy — That’s why despite all the privacy concerns Windows 10 is now in 75 Million devices worldwide? Microsoft’s latest Windows operating system, Windows 10, which is being offered as a free upgrade for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users, is now successfully […]
A US court has sentenced a 17-year old Virginia teen for 11 years in prison after his association with the so-called Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) was proved. Reportedly, the accused Ali Shukri Amin, handled a powerful pro-ISIS Twitter account (@Amreekiwitness) which had attracted some 4,000 followers by the time it was officially shut down. Through this Twitter […]