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Some high school students are claiming to have hacked the email account of CIA’s director John Brennan. After hacking into the account, they published the personal information of more than 20 CIA agents. The leaked information included email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and clearance level of the CIA employees. All this information was […]
Short Bytes: According to a latest EFF research, it’s possible that you own printer is leaking the important information about you to the government. By printing some secret yellow codes on each document, Xerox, Brother, Dell, HP, and Canon printers are “helping” the Secret Service. A research team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has cracked […]
Unbelievable Breaking News: IoT kettles are insecure. Security researchers at Pen Test Partners have found a security vulnerability in the iKettle Wi-Fi Electric Kettle that allows attackers to crack the password of the WiFi network to which the kettle is connected. iKettle is one of the new-era electronic devices that manufacturers are taunting as IoT (Internet […]
Short Bytes: Out of the box thinking proves more valuable than exhaustive drudgery. Depicted in this amazing lifehack, is one example that how you can boost your WiFi signal with just an empty beer can. In case you are in an agonising pain due to your age old WiFi router’s signal and are thinking of getting […]
Short Bytes: The researchers at NYU have revealed a way of attacking electronic devices by accelerating the aging of electronic chips. The paper titled “MAGIC: Malicious Aging in Circuits/Cores” describes the effects of the MAGIC attack on a smartphone, that could result in the failure of your device. The performance of an IC degrades over […]
This malicious browser looks and acts just like Chrome–except for all the pop-up ads, system file hijacking, and activity monitoring. Security researchers have discovered a fiendish form of browser malware that stands in for your copy of Google Chrome and hopes you won’t notice the difference. As reported by PCRisk, the “eFast Browser” works by […]
THE CHIP-ENABLED CREDIT card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a double check against fraud. In a so-called “chip-and-PIN” system, a would-be thief has to both steal a victim’s chip-enabled card and be able to enter the […]
A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief’s personal information. Using information like the four digits of Brennan’s bank card, which Verizon easily relinquished, the hacker and his […]
Microsoft announced the launch of a new transparency website in order to provide free access to the transparency reports published by the firm. Microsoft’s latest Transparency Hub entails a report comprising of information about the requests received by the tech giant from various parties regarding the elimination of online content. This new website also lets users […]
Short Bytes: Each of the first 10 employees of Apple had made outstanding contributions to Apple in the field of design, funding, coding and developing unique power supply. In this article, we are telling you about them and where are they today. We all know about the heights that Apple has reached today, but not […]
If you haven’t enabled two-factor authentication on Facebook, you should. If Facebook thinks someone has attempted to access your account, it will notify you. Now, those warnings may come if Facebook thinks the attacker is backed by a government. In a blog post from Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, the company has said that it’s expanding […]
Facebook accounts are notorious for being hacked, either through poor passwords or phishing scams. So to help keep its users safe, the social network has announced that it will soon start sending banner notifications to anyone whose account may have been compromised by the government or if Facebook suspects someone is trying to hack into […]
A recently discovered zero-day bug may be at fault.Security researchers from both Sucuri and Malwarebytes have observed a recent massive malware distribution campaign that leverages Magento websites to redirect users to the Neutrino Exploit Kit, and then infect them with the Andromeda/Gamarue malware (infostealer). The first alarm bells sounded at Malwarebytes’ headquarters on Thursday, October […]
Short Bytes: To make your favorite social network more secure, Facebook is now sending out notifications to the compromised accounts. Facebook mentions that government-sponsored attacks are more sophisticated and suggests to turn the 2-step login method. Did you recently suspect some suspicious activity on your Facebook account? Well, many of you would be aware of […]
Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policy forbidding the gathering of e-mail addresses, installed apps, serial numbers, and other personally identifying information that can be used to track users. The apps, which […]
Facebook will now detect when state hackers are trying to hijack accounts, and alert users when it happens Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, has announced a new system put in place at the social network, which will send an alert to users when the company is detecting account hijacking attempts from known state-sponsored […]
Short Bytes: 1Password, a password manager feature has been found to leak traces of the user account’s metadata which could be exploited by the attackers. However, only the older accounts using Agile Keychain format are vulnerable. Storing all your passwords and sensitive information in a single vault appears to be a good option, but what […]
Short Bytes: According to the latest revelations made by the American law enforcement agencies, ISIS terrorists are failing hard at hacking the America energy grid. They are launching repetitive failed attacks on the network with their poor hacking skills. The Islamic State, or the ISIS, is trying hard to hack the American electrical power companies’ networks, […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous conducted powerful DDoS attacks on the official websites of two of the Japan‘s busiest airports and forced them to stay down for about 8 hours. The attack was conducted under the banner of #OpKillingBay, an online operation against the slaughter of Dolphin and trade to aquariums. Anonymous Shut Down Japanese Airport websites against Dolphin […]
Code reviewers looking over a mail daemon have turned up a couple of reasonably serious bugs in the Libre SSL code base – and along the way provided a handy illustration of the deep interdependencies between software. What they’ve found is that there’s a companion memory leak (CVE-2015-5333) and buffer overflow (CVE-2015-5334) in the SSL […]
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at least 32 governments around the world, more than ever before. Citizen Lab, a research department at the University of Toronto, has been studying the usage of […]