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A couple (22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman from Colchester, Essex) offering malware encryption services has been arrested by British police — The couple offered services on a website “reFUD.me”. The website offered malware authors encryption services to cyber criminals so that their malware cannot be easily detected by anti-virus programs. What encryption does is it […]
Researchers have found a vulnerability in VPN networks that could allow hackers or scammers to access real IPs of the users. Though, for the vulnerability to actually work there are some special conditions that are needed to be fulfilled but for hackers that are not something difficult. What researchers found was if a VPN provider […]
Short Bytes: Mac OS X has a very nice way to capture full or partial screen without any software, but many users are unaware of it. Especially people coming from a Windows machine feel there isn’t any snip tool or print screen button. In this article, I’ve explained different ways to capture your screen in Mac OS […]
One day, as you’re busy surfing on one of your favorite online stores, you stumble upon a pair of chic shades … they’re the very ones you’ve been looking for, for quite some time. And that’s not it. Best of all, they are really cheap. So you add the sunglasses to your shopping cart, proceed […]
Short Bytes: The NSA will end its bulk phone spying program by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday). This step is being taken as back in June Congress passed the USA Freedom Act and banned the controversial metadata collection. Thanks to the leaks by Edward Snowden and constant demands being made by the activists, the […]
If you are the type of person that likes to tinker, Linux-based operating systems are for you. You would probably have many hours of fun playing with an Android device or Raspberry Pi. With that said, Linux is not the only game in town. Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile are probably the last operating systems […]
The bug is in the website’s “translate a document” feature.Madrid-based Francisco Javier Santiago Vazquez, a security auditor for Mnemo, has discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Translate’s interface. According to Mr. Vazquez, the vulnerability is in Google Translate’s “translate a document” feature, which allows users to translate text-based documents without having to extract […]
4.8 million records from a Hong Kong toy company were compromised. I suspect we’re all getting a little bit too conditioned to data breaches lately. They’re in the mainstream news on what seems like a daily basis to the point where this is the new normal. Certainly the Ashley Madison debacle took that to a […]
It seems that the Richland County, Wisconsin is the new victim of the pro-ISIS hackers as Team System DZ hacked three of the county’s domains this Sunday. Team System DZ, the Algerian-based hacking team who made the news in March 2015 for hacking Richland County (Wisconsin) Sheriffs Department Website has now hacked and defaced three domains […]
An email with a “terror alert” seems to be a new way of launching phishing attack and dropping malware from cyber criminals. People from several different parts of the world have reported such kind of attacks. According to the sources, people from countries like Canada, Dubai, Bahrain and Turkey have received emails notifying them of […]
Short Bytes: At the 2015 World Robot Conference in Beijing, a Chinese firm has unveiled three armed robots that are equipped with grenade launchers and rifles to fight the “global terror”. Notably, in the wake of recent attacks on Paris, China is on national alert and the officials are asked to work more on terrorism prevention measures. […]
British police arrested a man and a woman earlier this week, suspected of operating a website which offered services to online criminals which could help them evade detection by anti-virus software.
Attackers can unmask users hidden under a VPN connection. A vulnerability into how VPN providers deal with port forwarding exposes the real IP address of some users, say the network security experts from Perfect Privacy, a VPN provider. According to their research, some conditions must be met for this to happen, but none of them is […]
Short bytes: General availability of Java 9 is announced by Oracle and it is coming on Sep 22nd, 2016. The major feature in Java 9, the module system, will be a boon for developers and it will also bring improved scalability and performance to Java platform. Java 9 release dates and roadmap is finalized by Oracle and […]
IT’S enough to make Islamic State sit up and take notice, or at the very least get a little hot under the collar. A group associated with activist group Anonymous has hacked into the a supporting website for the terror group in the latest online attack against militants. Instead of being led to a propaganda […]
Embedded device mayhem as rivals share keys. More than 26,000 Cisco devices sold by Australia’s dominant telco Telstra are open to hijacking via hardcoded SSH login keys and SSL certificates. The baked-in HTTPS server-side certificates and SSH host keys were found by Sec Consult during a study of thousands of router and Internet of Things […]
Vulnerability Test Suite (VTS) is a free application for Android that scans devices running the operating system for publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities. Publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities remain a threat months or even years after disclosed due to how patches are delivered to user systems. Once Google has created a patch for a disclosed vulnerability, it is up to the […]
Security researcher warns hackers could steal personal information and turn the microphone of the doll into a surveillance device. Mattel’s latest Wi-Fi enabled Barbie doll can easily be hacked to turn it into a surveillance device for spying on children and listening into conversations without the owner’s knowledge. The Hello Barbie doll is billed as […]
Short bytes: There are different ways to retrieve the WiFi password of the network that you are connected to. Out of these, some methods include complex steps, whereas some are pretty handy and require only few commands to extract the WiFi password of your current network. Read the article to know how you can do […]
Just a week after the news of ISIS moving their online operations to the dark web, one of their main websites has been taken down by Ghost Sec hackers who have been in a relationship with the Anonymous group. Ghost Sec, a faction of the hacktivist collective Anonymous (unaffiliated with the counter-terrorism organisation Ghost Security […]
On Tuesday, Amazon started sending out emails to its users asking for a quick password reset, the reason is a possible breach of some of the users’ credentials. According to the email (dispatched by the company), Amazon was not sure if there is a possible breach into their systems or not but as a precautionary […]