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
Researchers as Ben Gurion university in Israel have discovered a vulnerability in Android 4.4 KitKat that allows an attacker to intercept and divert secure virtual private network (VPN) traffic.
A hacker going with the handle of Anti-NSA has hacked and defaced the official website Angry Birds following reports that NSA and British spy agencies are collecting personal information of users via the game app. The official website of Angry Birds was left with a deface page in which hacker turned Angry Birds in to […]
One of the realities of news that happens at Internet-speed is that it may not be wholly accurate. Much of what has come out about the Target breach contains factual errors that may not seem obvious, especially as they are repeated by many news outlets. So let us take a moment to examine some of the more common myths that have been flying around.
The FBI has announced the arrest and charge of Alexsandr Panin, 24, a Russian hacker who developed the SpyEye trojan and used it to steal financial information and money from around the world.
The Blackberry 10 operating system has been updated to include a ‘photo password’ mechanism, as well as stronger message filtering capabilities.
A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of xlx_xlx from 3xp1r3 Cyber Army has hacked and defaced the official website of Embassy of India in Doha, Qatar. The hacker left his group’s deface page along with a message against The Board Of Control For Cricket In India’s threat to harm Bangladeshi test cricket status if the country’s cricket […]