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Malware dubbed ‘Moon’ due to images found within the malware has spread rapidly through many models of Linksys routers – even ones protected by passwords – it’s still not clear how many are infected – or if the malware has a purpose beyond simply spreading.
Could places, not phrases, be the basis of secure passwords. UAE researchers have created a system for creating complex passwords using facts about a user’s favourite place – and claim it can foil ID-theft attacks.
Security expert Graham Cluley takes a look at the Kickstarter hack, and discovers there’s more to think about than just changing your passwords.
Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman, has launched a petition seeking clemency for Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked data about the NSA surveillance program, starting a national debate on American citizens’ privacy, according to the Ron Paul Channel. The online petition is available here with a video message by Mr. Ron Paul, urging people to sign the […]
An Egyptian hacker removed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook timeline cover photo from his account using a private exploit, according to a latest hacker news report. According to news published by The Hacker News, an Egyptian hacker with a nickname “Dr. FarFar” explained how he went about removing the cover image. Using Report abuse option on the […]
According to the officials, the security forces of Brazil are constantly using secret agents and thoroughly supervising the social media in order to make certain that the aggressive protesters against government do not wreck the world cup of soccer this year. Though the demonstration in the current months is way smaller than the previous year […]
World renowned hacktivists from LulzSec Peru have hacked a verified Twitter account of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). After taking over the Twitter account, the hacktivists changed the official description of @PartidoPSUV and its profile picture. The new discretion currently reads: “Don’t mess with the best. Hacked by LulzSec Peru.” Softpedia reports that LulzSec Peru also posted several tweets against the government of Venezuela, […]
Turkish based RedHack hacktivist claims to leak personal information and contact details of US embassy’ staff in Turkey. The dumped data shows names, emails and phone numbers belonging to US consulate in Turkey. The first in the list is Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., the United States ambassador to Turkey, whose phone number, name and email has […]
The hardcore supporters of Syrian President Bashar-Al-Assad from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked the American business magazine Forbes. As a result of hack, a story with the heading of “Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army” was added to the list of articles written by Forbes’ Travis Bradberry, Matthew Herper, Andy Greenberg, John Dobosz, Steve Forbes (the chairman and editor-in-chief of […]
A large scale cyber-theft has drained the relaunched ‘online drug bazaar’ Silk Road 2.0 of nearly all of its Bitcoin reserves – estimated to be worth $2 million or even more. The site relied on bitcoin to help anonymize transactions.
Activists in Ukraine are fighting a battle on ground, while hacktavists are putting their share online. The Anonymous Ukraine, in an email to us claimed that it has hacked and leaked hundreds of email conversations belonging to Vitali Klitschko’s Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko Party (UDAR). Hackers have uploaded the hacked email […]
Couples who have been in a long-term relationship indulge in risky online behaviour, such as sharing passwords for online accounts, with two-thirds of married couples sharing at least one password, a new study by Pew Internet has found.
For temporary abandoning the services of the host that is connected to some internet, the most widely used and favorite method that is employed by hackers is the “Distributed Denial of Services DDoS”. Almost all the big websites till date have fall victim to this attack at different times. For the purpose of boosting these […]
Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based computer security software firm, has unearthed a cyber-spying campaign apparently started by a Spanish-speaking country. The campaign targeted government agencies, energy companies and activists in 31 countries. Image by Kaspersky Labs The campaign, dubbed as “The Mask” (translation for the Spanish word Careto), was stopped last week, but has been operational […]
If your system administrator looks a little frazzled this week, be nice to him or her and don’t grumble too much about the photocopier being jammed. It may be that they have more serious issues on their mind.
Nearly two-thirds of employees – 63% – use personal email to transfer work files, potentially leaving workplaces exposed to hacks against their accounts – and more than half of employees regularly transfer files by insecure channels.
A Microsoft survey of 10,000 consumers found that the worldwide annual cost of identity theft and phishing could be as high as $5 billion – and the cost of repairing damage to people’s reputation online could be even higher.
Less than half of parents use parental controls on internet-enabled devices bought for their children – leaving millions of youngsters potentially exposed to online threats, according to new research.
The year 2013 was notable for the appearance of 0-day vulnerabilities that were primarily used in targeted attacks. In this case, criminal hackers worked on developing exploits, only not for random propagation of malicious code, but rather for use in attacks on specific users.
USA identifies its drone targets based on NSA metadata, a flawed tactic, according to reports published in the Intercept. A former NSA operative for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), on condition of anonymity, disclosed about the prevalent practice in the NSA is to target phones “in the hopes that the person on the other end […]
A little-known banking trojan, developed in Russia, has managed to infect thousands of victims’ computers without the knowledge of their owners. Graham Cluley takes a closer look.