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The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) utility has had to shut down systems, phone lines in response to a ransomware-based attack. The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) utility has had to shut down systems, phone lines in response to a ransomware-based attack. Another ransomware attack against a critical infrastructure is in […]
Hackers leak 1.4GB database of information after breaching Qatar National Bank.A group of unknown hackers have claimed to have hacked into the servers of Qatar National Bank (QNB), based in Doha and posted online to the whistleblower site Cryptome on April 26. Before uploading on this site, the massive leak was uploaded at Global-Files.net, but […]
BeautifulPeople.comLeaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters. This is a shame hack, a website called site BeautifulPeople.com which only accepts those people who are fair and beautiful was hacked by unknown hackers. The hackers who probably got the data in December 2015, leaked sensitive data of around 1.1 million ‘beautiful people’ who were members of this […]
“This is not a joke,” e-mail threatening massive DDoS says. Except it is. In less than two months, online businesses have paid more than $100,000 to scammers who set up a fake distributed denial-of-service gang that has yet to launch a single attack. The charlatans sent businesses around the globe extortion e-mails threatening debilitating DDoS attacks […]
Hacktivists spring into action following another mysterious police shooting that ends with someone’s death. Friday afternoon, members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous’ divisions, launched DDoS attacks against the city of Denver’s website (denvergov.org), taking the government portal down for the rest of the day. The assault continued the next day when hackers […]
The security expert Chris Vickery discovered a 132 GB MongoDB database open online and containing 93.4 million Mexican voter records. Once again a MongoDB poorly configurated exposed million records, once again data of voters are left accessible online. This time, the popular researcher Chris Vickery has discovered on Amazon’s AWS online a 132 GB database containing 93.4 […]
FBI director James Comey has given us our first hint at how much money the FBI paid to unlock the infamous iPhone at the center of its high-profile encryption fight with Apple. The short answer: “A lot.” “More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, […]
No admin privileges are required to run the attack. Clever hackers can bypass Microsoft’s Windows AppLocker security feature by abusing a hidden trait of the Regsvr32 command-line utility that’s normally used to register DLLs on a Windows computer. AppLocker is a security feature introduced with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that helps administrators specify […]
Russian developer known online as ‘Gribodemon’ and ‘Harderman’ gets nine years in US jail, while malware vendor ‘Bx1’ receives 15 years in billion-dollar case. The Russian creator of a computer program that enabled cybercriminals to infect millions of computers and drain bank accounts in multiple countries has been sentenced to serve nine and half years […]
Experts analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious RTF documents created using the same Four Element Sword builder. Security experts at Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have spotted a tool used in advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks against organizations in East Asia. The researchers have analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious Rich […]
Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur says he helped Turkish hacker group RedHack gain unauthorised access to servers. Everybody who is linked with the online hacktivist group knows Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur. Sabu was the chief informant of the FBI team that brought another Anonymous member, Jeremy Hammond in. Sabu has claimed that the U.S. government disregarded his […]
New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discovered hacking the mechanism of the extraction in order to predict the winning tickets. According to new details revealed by The Des Moines Register, the lottery […]
After hackers ran up a bill on my PlayStation account, Sony held it ransom, says user. Sony is not known to be a particularly customer friendly company with many complaints of overcharging/wrong billing by PlayStation account users. However it crossed even that limit by harassing a genuine user for the wrongs committed by hackers. Brad […]
DDOS attacks are a fact of life these days, it would seem. People were having trouble logging into Blizzard games such as Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft last night, as a result of a DDOS attack on the company’s servers that notorious DDoS group Lizard Squad has taken credit for. The company says that […]
Lottery boss wins $16.5 million in six years by tampering random number generator. According to The Des Moines Register, in a case from last year, new details have been disclosed that tells how the boss of a US lottery used malicious DLLs to manipulate and foretell winning ticket numbers on special days of the year. The […]
Anonymous Philippines hacked the COMELEC database, the incident exposed records of more than 55 million voters, it is the biggest gov-related data breach. A few days ago I reported the news on the availability online of a database containing data of more than 50 million Turkish citizens, now IT security community is discussing another clamorous data […]
Listeners hear explicit audio caused when station equipment is commandeered. Some Tuesday morning listeners of KIFT, a Top 40 radio station located in Breckenridge, Colorado, were treated to a radically different programming menu than they were used to. Instead of the normal fare from Taylor Swift, The Chainsmokers, or other pop stars, a hack by an […]
A database containing records of 50 Million Turkish Citizens appeared online in the weekend. Is it a new or a recycled archive? Details of almost 50 Million Turkish citizens have been leaked online, the bulk data was hosted on a server with the IP address 185.100.87.84. The archive was published during the weekend, the publishers claim they it belongs […]
Google removes Chrome extension that hijacked Web browsers. Google has intervened and banned the Better History Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store after users reported that it started taking over their browsing experience and redirecting them to pages showing ads. First signs that something was wrong appeared when users updated from version 3.9.7 to 3.9.8 after […]
US and UK are planning to simulate a cyber attacks on nuclear plants, to test their resilience in the light of the nuclear security summit. In the light of the recent events with the terrorist attacks in Europe, the fear of other similar threats becomes greater by the minute. Coordinates cyber attacks on nuclear plants would have […]
Hacker tried to warn the company about their security issue but was ignored, so he used it against them. A hacker known under the name of TheNeoBoss apparently breached the Paper Street Media (PSM) network of several adult sites and is currently selling the database associated with the Team Skeet pornographic website, Vice reported yesterday. “So recently […]