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Highly privileged account could be used to hack customers’ networks, researchers warn. A company that supplies audio-visual and building control equipment to the US Army, the White House, and other security-conscious organizations built a deliberately concealed backdoor into dozens of its products that could possibly be used to hack or spy on users, security researchers […]
Steam scammer caught red-handed by Panda Security researcher. A crafty Steam user created four Chrome extensions that would empty out his victim’s Steam inventory and send all their game perks to the extension’s owner. First signs that something was wrong were spotted by Panda Security researcher Bart Blaze on the TeamFortress.tv forums. Mr. Blaze was able […]
At some point over the weekend, the official website of Belinda Carlisle was compromised, displaying banner ads for a Canadian Pharmacy page. Here’s the Google search result for “Belinda Carlisle” – note the “Site may have been hacked” warning from Google under the top result, which of course happens to be the website in question: Stats […]
Ukrainian Government is accusing Russia of organizing hacker attacks against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine are blaming Russian hackers for a new cyber attack against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Presidential Administration’s spokesman for ATO Andriy Lysenko (ATO), explained that the systems at […]
At the recent ShmooCon conference a researcher presented a LastPass phishing attack that could allow hackers to steal your password. We discussed several times the importance of password managers such as LastPass, but sometimes hackers could exploit them to launch their attacks. The security researcher Sean Cassidy has presented on Saturday at the ShmooCon hacker conference […]
The stolen Bitcoin & Litecoin were worth over $5.7 million. Cryptsy, a website for trading Bitcoin, Litecoin, and other smaller crypto-currencies, announced a security incident, accusing the developer of Lucky7Coin of stealing 13,000 Bitcoin and 300,000 Litecoin, which at today’s rate stands more than $5.7 million / €5.2 million. According to a blog post penned by […]
Data for 18,000 users stolen in the incident. The website of the Faithless British EDM band has been breached and the personal information of over 18,000 fans stolen by a yet unknown assailant,The Independent reports after being notified by cyber-security vendor CyberInt. Last September, CyberInt security experts discovered a listing on the Dark Web containing a database […]
Short Bytes: With changing times, the international community has banned the whale hunting practice. However, it’s a common knowledge that Japanese people call whale meat their “nostalgia food” as it connects them to their culture and heritage. As a protest against Japan’s stance on whale hunting, Anonymous hacking collective has taken down Nissan’s website to put […]
One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned. A group of hackers calling themselves “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA made headlines in October, hacking into CIA […]
Netflix Hack : Here Is How To Open Up Movie Portals You Didn’t Know Existed. You probably know that Netflix is a online movie streaming website. As of October 2015, Netflix reported 69.17 million subscribers worldwide, including more than 43 million in the U.S. On Wednesday, Netflix CEO announced the launch of Netflix in 130 countries including […]
The hacking group New World Hacking that claimed the responsibility for the BBC attack revealed that the DDoS attack reached the 602 GBps. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]
The TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable is warning customers their emails and passwords may have been exposed. Nearly 320,000 of the TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable customers urge to change their passwords for the email account. The measure has been requested by the company in response to alleged unauthorized […]
Romanian police have acted to end a series of malware ATM attacks carried out in Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Romania. Alleged members of an international criminal group responsible for a year-long campaign of ATM malware attacks across Europe have been rounded up, according to EU law-enforcement agency Europol. Eight people have been arrested […]
Short Bytes: Last year, the FBI engaged in the largest ever law enforcement hacking campaign to shut down “the largest remaining known child pornography hidden service in the world.” The FBI made use of a hacking tool called network investigative technique (NIT) to sniff the IP addresses of the pedophile users and busted them. Back […]
Short Bytes: Ghost Squad Hackers group has taken down multiple .gov websites in Ethiopia. The collective has blamed the government for killing “students for opposing the ‘master plan’ to expand the main city Addis Ababa”. Talking to fossBytes, the group has said, “we need the government to stop this madness or we will hack more […]
Highly destructive malware creates “destructive events” at 3 Ukrainian substations. Highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine led to a power failure that left hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity last week, researchers said. The outage left about half of the homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine without […]
Enterprise communications at risk due to trivial MitM attack.Cisco’s Jabber client for Windows is plagued by a serious security vulnerability that allows attackers to downgrade STARTTLS settings and force communications to take place via cleartext, exposing a user’s private conversations and stealing his login credentials. Security researchers Renaud Dubourguais and Sébastien Dudek from Synacktiv discovered […]
After many years, Microsoft admitted that Chinese authorities hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities. After many years, Microsoft finally concluded that Chinese authorities indeed hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, but at the time did not warn the users, allowing the victims to […]
Short Bytes: A programmer has hacked a Nintendo 3DS to install Microsoft’s vintage OS Windows 95. The hack works fine on the newer version of the gaming console and is a premium ticket to a nostalgia ride. When you come across the fact that someone has installed Windows 95 on Nintendo 3DS, you are not […]
Hacker also steals data from some hacked websites.A Moroccan hacker that calls himself ElSurveillance has defaced and stolen data from 79 escort websites, as part of a larger campaign he started last summer, a campaign against adult and escort portals. ElSurveillance published the first batch of 71 websites on December 27 and later followed with […]
iPlayer database malfunctions in DDoS attack, brings everything down, including main website and a radio app. On the morning of December 31, 2015, unknown attackers have downed the BBC website and its iPlayer video platform under a massive DDoS attack. The attack started around 07:00 AM GMT and only lasted a few hours, the BBC services […]