It has been almost 25 years, but the infamous video of ‘Rodney King being beaten up by L.A. police officers’ is still fresh in many memories. This year, a similar video captured through cellphone by a local man was uploaded to Facebook, it showed a fatal police shooting by L.A.P.D. the video went viral and […]
Google has taken a stand against phishing attacks by revealing Password Alert: a Chrome extension designed to neutralize them after a user is taken in.
Budget airline Ryanair has been the victim of a major banking hack, with more than $5 million stolen from its business account last week.
“It won’t happen to me” is often uttered by citizens and businesses who are adamant that they won’t become a victim of cybercrime. But this confidence is often misplaced, with even the most basic security errors exploited by hackers.
On 30th April, 2015, a Palestinian-friendly hacker going with the online handle of HolaKo hacked and defaced a subdomain of Rediff.com, a famous Indian news, information, shopping and entertainment web portal. The targeted domain (businessemail.rediff.com) belongs to Rediff enterprise providing emails, Windows and Linux web hosting services in India. In an exclusive conversation with HolaKo, HackRead was told […]
It happened about two hours ago. Facebook nearly gave me and my friend Arpit, the co-founders of fossBytes, a massive heart-attack. Yes, this happened with us. Keep reading. It’s a true story. It was a usual day at work and we were finished with today’s work. As it was the second day of Microsoft’s Developer […]
It is no secret how even the world’s most unfortunate tragedies such as air crashes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis are capitalized on by cybercriminals to employ scams and extort money. Thus, with the recent earthquake disaster that befell Nepal, citizens are encouraged to be more cautious and vigilant with probable scams associated with the incident. […]
People do dumb things on Facebook, but liking your own picture when it’s posted by the police for an arrest? Come on man! It’s normal to see people updating their status abusing police, giving each other death threats or some sort of revenge stuff, but when Great Falls, Cascade County Crime Stoppers posted a picture of Levi Charles Readon (wanted for Forgery) on […]
Microsoft is busy launching new products and services from its Developer Build Conference 2015. Yesterday we saw the unveiling of Microsoft Edge – the Internet Explorer replacement – and many other ambitious announcements. Today, at the second day, Microsoft announced a new framework, Vorlon.JS, that will help developers to debug JavaScript running on remote devices. […]
Do you know the difference between a “hacker” and a “cyber criminal”? Many of us often use these two terms without knowing the real meaning. Here I am going to share a video of one of the most dangerous hackers of all time. These hackers are infamous for their hacking skills and expertise. If you […]
Google has recently unveiled a new Chrome extension called Password Alert, designed as a defense tool for phishing threats by issuing an early warning alert for users. Password Alert will compare a hashed version of your password to a password you enter into a browser and a warning will be issued in the event that […]
Beware of that accident scam call or text: losing money isn’t the only risk.
Do you want to experience all the new features of Google’s new browser for Android before everyone else? Here’s a good news. Google has made its Chrome Dev Browser available for everyone. It is just a clicks away and now available for download from Google Play. Yesterday Google announced this release on its official Chrome […]
What’s the difference between IDS, firewalls and antivirus? This guide should explain how they complement each other in a balanced security setup.
A security expert has had a computer chip designed for tracking cows implanted into his hand by an ‘unlicensed amateur’ to hack phones from underneath the skin, reports Gizmodo.
A Canadian woman has been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for hacking computers, taking over their webcams and spying on people. Police are positive that Valérie Gignac, a 27-year-old suspect is involved in hacking computers of innocent users with the help of malicious software, taking over their webcams, spy on people and loading x-rated websites. […]
Hackers are targeting users with a fake Facebook email tricking them into clicking an attached application to generate a trusted connection to the network— Attachment contains malware. Number of users around the world have reported a new scam from Facebook (which in reality is not from Facebook itself). Users who are scammed have reported an email from Facebook having […]
Source: TechCrunch From Last November, Microsoft was teasing its developers by saying that some of the key features for Microsoft .NET platform can show-up on Linux or Mac. Today, at its Build developer Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft officially announced that its first full preview of the Microsoft .NET Core run-time is coming for Linux […]
Microsoft released a new development tool – Visual Studio Code – that works Windows, Linux, and Mac. This is being seen as a move by Microsoft to expand its horizon outside the Windows operating system world and a continuation to its last year’s move to make its .NET development platform open-source. This application is in […]
The South African Right2Know campaign has released its “Big Brother Exposed” report. The report revealed details about the way activists and community leaders are being “monitored, spied and harassed” by South African intelligence agencies. In Right2Know’s latest issue of “Big Brother” it was revealed that National Union of Metal workers (Numsa), has announced to lodge a […]
Today even the big financial players like PayPal, who are expected to deliver secured services to its users, aren’t safe from the hacking attacks and vulnerabilities. Actually they are the one who are constantly targeted by hackers. Here I am going to tell you about a critical remote code execution vulnerability that has been reported […]