The hardcore supporter of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and the online hacktavist Syrian Electronic Army has made an attempt to hack a number of high profile websites-including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Google-by hacking into the domain management service provider MarkMonitor. It seems as if MarkMonitor was able to block Syrian hackers from causing huge […]
Devices brought to Sochi get apparently hacked within few moments of being connected to a Wi-Fi network, according to NBC Nightly News’ experiment. Richard Engel of NBC News, as explained in this video clip said his devices in Sochi were hacked within few seconds and loaded with bogus information decoys. Public WI-Fi networks are anyways […]
A tiny, cheap gadget which can ‘hack’ into the network of modern cars to receive radio commands ranging from controlling steering and brakes to switching off headlights is to be shown off at the Black Hat Asia security conference in Singapore next month.
419s are a well-known scam type, but some scams are more obvious than others. And sometimes it’s the seller who’s cheated not the buyer.
Attackers involved in the Target breach, which led to the theft of 40 million debit and credit card details late last year, broke into the retailer’s network via a heating and air-conditioning contractor, according to a new report.
The latest in the series of Snowden revelations include attacks of British spies on hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. According to NBC news, who obtained the leaked classified documents from Snowden, the spy unit used questionable practices not just against the hackers but also against web communications of political dissidents. A division (Joint Threat Research […]
JERUSALEM: Two Israeli combat pilots were jailed for five days and 12 others were disciplined for storing operational maps on their smartphones, Israeli Army Radio reported on Wednesday. Israeli military authorities discovered the security breach after one of the pilots reported he had lost his cellphone and that it contained sensitive data. It was recovered, […]
A statistical tool first used in 1966 and currently used in speech and gesture recognition may hold a key to sniffing out botnets – by predicting the likely “next move” of infected PCs and the healthy computers around them, researchers have claimed.
Weak passwords and rarely updated software are a recurring theme behind the 48,000 cyber incidents reported to the Department of Homeland Security – including the theft of data on the nation’s weakest dams by a “malicious intruder”, a DHS report has found.
A Department of Commerce committee will meet for the first time this Thursday to begin discussions on a standard of guidelines for facial recognition software.
It is now possible to enable HTTPS secure browsing on every website using Firefox for Android, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced.
Pirate party members from Iceland and Sweden have nominated Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning for Noble prize award. Such a recognition for both the gentlemen has been due to their overwhelming efforts for saving humanity from injustice. Although, this recognition might not be an equivalent to their work. But, it will certainly encourage people to […]
RedHack, Turkish hacktivists, breached into the databases of Turkey-based ISP TTNET, and mobile operators, Vodafone and TurkCell, to protest against the death of a Gezi protester. They tweeted: We dedicate our new action to Gezi martyr #AliİsmailKorkmaz. A Screenshot of leaked data The group claimed to have millions of records and through the hack they […]
A terror suspect has challenged the constitutionality of the NSA’s surveillance program alleging that the federal government has gone too far on spying, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. Jamshid Muhtorov’s file photo Jamshid Muhtorov, an Uzbek terror suspect from Colorado, in a motion filed in the Denver court with the help of […]
Eleven high school students have been expelled after being caught bugging their teachers’ computers with a key logger device to change their grades.
White Lodging, a hotel management firm that works under brands including Hilton and Marriott, has suffered a credit card hack revealing customers’ details.
The pro-Bashar Al Assad hacking group Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into the domain registry of world renowned online shopping and money transaction platforms Ebay and MarkMonitor which manages security for Paypal. The hack was announced by SEA on their official Twitter account which shows that official websites of UK’s Ebay (ebay.co.uk) and Paypal (paypal.co.uk) were hacked […]
Hacktivists from Ukrainian neo-fascist ‘Svoboda’ party hacked and defaced more than 30 Ukrainian government and media websites. Hackers have left a deface page along with a statement on all hacked websites that ‘Svoboda’ is ready to seize power in Ukraine and that they are the only real political force in the country. We are ready […]
Yahoo has been hacked again. On Thursday Yahoo announced that usernames and passwords of its email users have been stolen by unknown hackers. The world’s second largest email service provider Yahoo Inc has around 273 million email accounts all over the world. However, the company didn’t mention how many accounts were affected Yahoo said in a blog post that: […]
Yahoo has announced that its email system has recently been subject to a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access”.
The key to beating hackers might not just lie in stronger security measures and ‘unbreakable’ passwords. Now, it seems like an element of trickery is required – almost beating hackers at their own game. Two independent security researchers have developed a system which they call ‘Honey Encryption’, which promises to make it harder for hackers