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Seculert, an Israeli based company that detects viruses and other Advanced persistent threats (APT), has claimed to detect two different spear-phishing attacks which were using a fake Mandiant report to spy on Chinese and Japanese journalists. TheRegister reports that researchers are positive about the origin of these attacks is none other then China. “We resolved it and found it was reporting […]
Caution: Weakness of Web Codes causes Data Dumping onto Personal Computers A web developer has revealed that by creating a loophole in the web codes, junk data in gigabytes can be dumped onto PCs. It is the HTML 5 feature which defines the making of a website and the loophole exploits this feature to dump […]
Caution! Black berry users may become subject to a malicious act from hackers. The security advisory services of blackberry have recently indicated a threat from hackers by pointing out the possibility of a penetration into the BlackBerry servers. Hackers may do it embedding or planting a venomous code on the BES which is also used […]
In a report published by Kaspersky Lab and Cryptography and System Security(CrySyS) said that hackers targeted dozens of government owned computers in Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic and Romania by a malicious malware known as MiniDuke. Fireeye about a week back, announced a new malware threat by the name of “Adobe Reader 0-day”. Since the induction of this new […]
A researcher by the name of Debasish Mandal has found critical command executing vulnerability on the latest versions 2.0.5 and earlier on famous VLC media playing software that can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on computers via ASF files. The developers at VLC organization have published an advisory according to which the vulnerability is located in media player’s […]
Kaspersky, one of the leading security firms around the world has found something shocking in one of the android apps, which is said to be designed to free some memory from the device. But, instead the app is sort of a malware designed to exploit any operating system attached to the device. You might be […]
Facebook shocked the world by unveiling its new Graph Search. Where users are waiting to test the new search features, the hackers are anxiously waiting to test their skills to hunt some Facebook accounts. Facebook’s Graph Search is basically a search engine which will work within the network, finding results based on posts, tags, friends, families and uncountable Facebook members. Its […]
Gas and oil markets are one of the most profitable markets in the world. The projection in future for these markets looks very bright and chances of intense competitions loom. According to the statistics, a rise of over 13 billion is predicted by the year 2021 in comparison to the year 2012. But the sector […]
The US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has reported that two US power stations were attacked and infected by a malicious malware in the last quarter of 2012. The experts have blamed not anyone else but USB flash drives filled with viruses for infecting and compromising the industrial control systems in both […]
Once again the LinkedIn users have been under massive spam attack in form of an official LinkedIn lookalike notification about a supposedly received message from a potential new connection. Sadly for the users, it is not a real LinkedIn link- It is a fake link that redirected users to a different compromised site and asks for their personal details or welcome them with […]
Can you imagine your voice being heard from miles away, even you are talking with someone verbally and that is too your phone on flight mode? Well, you would be shocked that it could be done with quite ease, especially, if you are having a Cisco phone nearby. Cisco phone was recently hacked and while hacking the […]
An ethical hacker, security researcher and a writer Rafay Baloch was paid total USD 10,000 for reporting a Code Execution / Command Execution vulnerability on the sub-domain of Paypal. Paypal had started a *Bug Bounty program* for security experts around the world to report any bug or vulnerability is found on their server. The hacker writes […]
We already on HackRead provided you all the details regarding new ways of hacking and now it’s been proved by a survey that the new ways of hacking are really harmful for databases in particular. But, before going into the depth of the survey let’s go into it’s background first: We told you before also […]
An Egyptian hacker Virus_Hima has said to found vulnerabilities in the official website of Yahoo. This is probably the second time in 2 months, when the hacker has found vulnerability in one of the major technology websites. While telling about the vulnerabilities he said that he got a complete hold of the backup of several yahoo domains. Among […]
As we previously pointed out on HackRead that smartphones are probably the biggest form of hacking for the cyber hackers this year, another news from Malaysia have arose regarding the hacking scenarios through smartphone. The Malaysian cyber crime has reported that people nationwide has faced huge losses of money this year from the hands of cyber hackers. […]
An internet security expert, who goes by the name of Carlos Reventlov has found a vulnerability on Instagram app for iPhone and iPod touch. The vulnerability allows hackers to illegally access the user account and make changes against its will, for example: changing and deleting of uploaded pictures. The vulnerability was found on 11th November […]
An IT security expert from India who goes by the name of Christy Philip Mathew has found a critical XSS vulnerability in sub-domain of Google translator [www.translate.google.co.in]. The expert reported that this vulnerability can an be later exploited by the hackers to attack the users via session Hijacking, phishing attacks or if exploited to git, it can also infect the users with dangerous […]
Some unknown hackers have installed a malicious Java applet on an international Forex Trading website, the program is designed to install malware on the visitor’s systems. The program was detected by an internet security company WebSence, which claims that the website [tradingforex.com] contained malware till Friday morning and now has been removed. An applet is a small Internet-based program written in Java, a programming […]
In a video presentation, the vulnerability experts known as ReVuln have revealed a 0day vulnerability for industrial SCADA Schneider Electric, General Electric, Siemens and Rockwell Automation. Yet the exact vulnerable products were not discussed in the presentation. According to ReVuln, the vulnerabilities are of high risk which allows uploading shells remotely, executing the code and session hijacking on the PCs that are responsible for running […]