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Snapchat app vulnerability is highlighted again, and this time the hackers can temporarily freeze your iPhone and force restart, according to media reports. A Spanish researcher, Jaime Sanchez, along with another researcher have discovered a flaw in the Snapchat’s code that makes it possible for the hackers to launch denial-of-service attack. Sending thousands of messages […]
Fraudulent emails offering refunds of overpaid tax have surged by nearly 50% in the past year, according to a report by Accountancy Age. Customers reported 23,347 phishing emails to the British tax authorities in the three months before the deadline.
This small sized device could hack a car, let’s see how the researchers demonstrate. Auto makers over the years have paid less attention to the threat that hackers can attack their trucks and car systems. This is based on their argument that their vehicles have increasingly networked systems which are protected through varlet wireless intrusion. […]
A small American law firm has admitted that every document on a server at the North Carolina company has fallen prey to the Cryptolocker ransomware, according to a report by local station WSO CTV.
A fake version of Facebook’s 10th anniversary celebration video page, ‘A Look Back’ is spreading via the social network, with users directed instead to another website, where they are prompted to download files.
Missed a phone call? The Better Business Bureau says answering international telephone fraud calls looking like US calls might cost you more than you think.
An Anonymous hacker going with the handle of @TheHorsemenLulz has hacked 4 official Social Media accounts of UAE‘s Dubai Police. The hacked accounts include LinkedIn, Pinterest and verified Twitter handle with 258k followers. After hacking Dubai Police Twitter account, hacker started sending tweets; blaming the police for spying on people. One of the tweet said: Dubai Police is spying […]
Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, used a very simple ‘Web crawler’ to collect controversial NSA data, according to a senior intelligence official quoted by The New York Times. He further added that the collection process was ‘quite automated’ and the software did the ‘search, index, and backup’ of files while Snowden went about his daily […]
Websites though being secured remains at a risk of getting attacked in one or the other way. Internet is coming up with a new attack almost every day, Phishing, Sniffing, Snooping, hijacking, identity hacking are to name a few. Authentication hacking is one such type of attack. As we all know that authentication is very […]
An Iranian hacker going with the handle of Dr.3v1l has hacked and defaced the official website of President of Nepal. Screenshot of the deface page left by the hacker Dr.3v1l left his deface page with a message on hacked Nepali presidential website. He also left a Pastie with the site’s database along with mirror, admin username and […]
Managers at White Lodging, a hotel management firm that works with various brands including Hilton, Marriott, Westin, Sheraton and Hyatt, may have known of a major credit card data breach for two weeks before details were made public.
Body odor could be used as a biometric identifier, with high rates of accuracy, due to chemical patterns in the smell that are unaffected by bodily changes – or deodorant – according to Spanish researchers.
The Turkish parliament has accepted a highly controversial reversal to a cyber law, granting authorities full power to block certain websites in the country. After the approval of conversational Internet laws, activities and online hacktivist RedHack are gearing up for a massive protest against the law, which, according to them is an act of limiting and […]
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.