Anonymous threatens cyberattack on Albuquerque Police Department for shooting and killing mentally ill homeless man James M. Boyd. File photo of mentally ill and homeless manJames M Boyd. The hacktivist collective Anonymous has released a video on YouTube in which the hacktivists have warned Albuquerque Police Department for a massive cyber attack on their servers. In 1:34 […]
A security firm has revealed that hackers are targeting companies utilizing services of Monster Jobs, a well-known job portal, through a new variant of the Gameover computer Malware. Gameover, the malware infecting the employment portal, is similar to the infamous Zeus banking malware whose source code was leaked in 2011. The Trojan steals log-in credentials […]
A young MIT student has invented a new system for storing data which could offer protection against unscrupulous colleagues – and even against the hi-tech tentacles of government organizations with “back doors” into corporate servers.
Famous South Korean Search Portal NAVER Hacked, 25 Million accounts Hacked Using Stolen Data. A hacker going with the handle of ‘Seo’ has been arrested for breaching in to the accounts of 25 million people on NAVER, South Korea’s largest Web portal. According to Korea Herald, the hacker bought private information of 25 million people […]
Windows XP comes to an end of sorts on April 8, 2014. After this, Microsoft will cease providing security updates or support for this venerable operating system. ESET discusses implications and resources.
Dynamic or on-access Mac testing of AV products is problematical with samples for which Apple has implemented signature detection.
A possibility that Muslim hackers could have compromised the IsraelDefense magazine (www.israeldefense.com) database and its website, to launch the recent SMS attack on Israelis, is being explored, according to Times of Israel. It’s not clear if that database was the source of the phone numbers used in the SMS ‘attack,’ but there were no reports of […]
In an exclusive interview with NBC, the ex-American president Mr. Jimmy Carter expressed his views on the NSA; according to which Mr. Carter believes that he is being spied by the NSA. During the interview when he was asked about NSA surveillance, he replied: When I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or […]
Mark Zuckerberg, Paypal founder Elon Musk and Ashton Kutcher have invested $40 million in an artificial-intelligence start-up, Vicarious, which can already ‘read’ CAPTCHA codes – and aims to mimic functions of the human brain.
NSA hacked into servers of Huawei Technologies, a Chinese network manufacturer, and collected information to plant ‘backdoors’ on their equipment, according to latest media reports based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. NSA, however, declined to comment on the company specifically but in an email statement to the IDG news service, the agency said: […]
Bitcoin’s developers have released a new version of the software, which includes a long-awaited fix for the “transaction malleability” bug which is said to have brought down the Mt Gox exchange – and Mt Gox staff have ‘found’ 200,000 BTC in an abandoned wallet in the exchange.
A hacker going with the handle of Eth_Spectrum had hacked and defaced the official websites of top Hollywood celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj and Selena Gomez. All websites were hacked on 8th March 2014, left with a deface page along with a message. The reason for targeting these celebrities was not mentioned anywhere. […]
According to documents leaked by the Syrian Electronic Army, Microsoft have been charging the FBI with millions of Dollars a year for giving them legal access to customer information. The Syrian Electronic Army is a group of hackers which is said to be loyal to the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. This hackers group has been known for […]
Starting today, Gmail will use an encrypted HTTPS connection to check or send email, regardless of what platform users employ to access the service – and will use security measures when moving mails internally, citing fears over government snooping.
The list of secrets held by the NSA is a never-ending one. Latest in the list includes its refusal to disclose the amount of water it pumps in its new data center at Bluffdale, Utah. An aerial view of the NSA’s Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. According to a letter sent to officials in Utah. […]
The malware problem on Mac OS X is nothing like as bad as it is on Windows, but that doesn’t mean it can be ignored.
Apple’s Mavericks update was the first free update to Mac OS X – itself a big step forward for security, as all Mac users can update to the latest version freely (providing their machine is up to the new software – which Apple allows you to check here). But under the bonnet of Mavericks lurk
A new form of Android malware could bypass one of the main warning systems built into Google’s smartphone and tablet OS – allowing malicious apps to ‘sneak’ onto a phone with a relatively innocuous list of ‘Permissions’, then add new, malicious abilities.
The Target breach, and in particular the role of respected security blogger Brian Krebs in breaking the story, has been optioned as a feature film by Sony. The studio bought the rights to the New York Times article, “Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly,” with a view to creating a “cyber thriller.”
Tor Browser app in the Apple app store is fake and have been found spreading adware and spywares. According to the official website of Tor Browser, the Browser app available in Apple store on iTunes is fake and has nothing to do with the official version. The developers of Tor said that: Tor Browser in the Apple […]
Facebook’s ‘Deepface’ photo-matching software can now ‘recognize’ human faces with an accuracy just a fraction of a percentage point behind human beings – a huge leap forward in the technology, with some potentially alarming implications for privacy.