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Microsoft will now tell users of its email services when their accounts are being attacked by government hackers. The change in policy comes as Reuters reported that the company chose not to tell thousands of Hotmail users that their email accounts had been hacked by Chinese government officials. Security experts for the company reportedly found evidence in […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement confirmed that Drug Traffickers are hacking surveillance drones on the border. Small drones are another powerful tool used by the US Department of Homeland Security to monitor its borders, but drug traffickers already adopting countermeasures. In order to avoid surveillance, drug traffickers are hacking US […]
Researchers could not track down the database’s owner.Security researcher Chris Vickery has identified a misconfigured database that contains the personal details of 191,337,174 US voters. The unprotected database was discovered on December 20, contains over 300 GB of data, and includes details such as full names, voter IDs, home addresses, email addresses, party affiliations, ethnicity, […]
Coinbase website DDoSed by hacker group. A hacker group consisting of two hackers, @L7Crew and @An0CBR claimed to have brought down the Bitcoin exchange website Coinbase. The Coinbase website is offline and opening the same presents a cached copy of the website. Coinbase is a bitcoin wallet and exchange company headquartered in San Francisco California, founded by Brian Armstrong and […]
No, the hackers weren’t mad at any dinosaurs. On Christmas Eve, Egyptian hackers associated with the Anonymous Rabaa Team have defaced the website of the Ministry of the Environment in Costa Rica, and more specifically, two pages with details about the System of Conservation Areas and the Isla del Coco (Cocos Island), the inspiration for Isla […]
A repeat of last year’s gaming outage looks to have been avoided after hacker group Phantom Group claimed it won’t target Sony and Microsoft. Last Christmas, gamers were outraged when both the PlayStation and Xbox networks were taken offline by hackers through a denial of service attack. But, despite threats of a repeat this year, […]
Hacking group keeps its promise, downs Steam for Christmas.The SkidNP hacking group kept their promise and started attacking Steam servers on Christmas, after a spat with Phantom Squad earlier this week when the two groups had a “territory fight,” defacing each others websites and calling each other “skids” (script kiddies, derogatory hacker term). It now […]
Hyatt Hotels Corp said on Wednesday that its payment processing system was infected with credit-card-stealing malware in an attack discovered three weeks ago, the latest in a series of breaches at hospitality firms. Company spokeswoman Stephanie Sheppard said in an email late on Wednesday that the attack was discovered on Nov. 30. She did not […]
An email popped into the inbox of a famous radio host this month, sent by a young man from the Bahamas, with an offer he hoped would turn the head of even an industry veteran: scripts for the first six episodes of a coming season of a hit television drama, the last of which was […]
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. Bob Lord, who was hired as the company’s new CISO in October, discussed the initiative in a blog post Monday. Lord said Yahoo will only notify users […]
SANRIO, THE TOKYO-BASED owner of the Hello Kitty brand, may be Japan’s global purveyor of kitschy cuteness. But the leak of 3.3 million of their website’s registered users’ data isn’t so endearing. The Hack Over the weekend, security researcher Chris Vickery told CSO’s Salted Hash security blog that he’d discovered a leaked database of more […]
After VTech, another kids service suffers a data breach.Personal details on 3.3 million accounts of Hello Kitty fans are available online, most of which are probably belonging to children, as the researcher that uncovered the breach told Salted Hash. Chris Vickery discovered that the sanriotown.com database was easily accessible online. This database contained aggregated information […]
The comeback was 16 years in the making, but macro malware is once again on security professionals’ radars in a big way impacting at least 100,000 people since it began its resurgence earlier this year, according to Intel Security. The malware, which uses the native scripting language in Windows Office products including Word and Excel, saw its […]
In an attack aping the work of the infamous Lizard Squad hacking group, the similarly titled Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. While the service is now currently back up, some users experienced problems logging in overnight. Sony’s PlayStation Network was not affected. The attacks follow threats […]
We believe the payload belongs to a new iOS Trojan family that we’re calling “TinyV”. In December 2015, Chinese users reported they were infected by this malware. After further research, we found the malware has been repackaged into several pirated iOS apps that are available for download via multiple channels. In this blog, we will […]
Facebook doesn’t appreciate the effort, threatens to sue. Wesley Wineberg, an independent security researcher, participating in Facebook’s bug bounty program, managed to crack his way through Instagram defenses and almost get complete control over the service. Soon after the researcher disclosed the vulnerability to Facebook, the company threatened to sue, instead of paying the reward he […]
Trio of threats assaults unsuspecting Comcast Xfinity users. Some users visiting the Comcast Xfinity portal faced a triple threat these past days, being taken on a wild ride by a malicious ad to a page serving ransomware via an exploit kit, and later trying to trick them into calling a phone number in a classic tech […]
Researcher also launches a DoS attack on the car’s computer. A professor at Hiroshima City University was able to hack an Internet-connected car with a custom-made WiFi device and an app on his smartphone,Japan Times reports. In his experiment, Hiroyuki Inoue, an associate professor at Hiroshima City University’s Graduate School of Information Sciences, used a 2013 […]
ZOMBIE ARMIES AREN’T just invading movie screens these days. They’re also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, that gives a bot herder remote control of these computers in order to surreptitiously commandeer them without their owners’ knowledge. The […]
Leaky database server left exposed online is at fault.For the past few weeks, security researcher Chris Vickery has been working on discovering insecure applications and contacting the makers of those apps to have the issues resolved. One of the applications he found to leak quite a large amount of personal user details is MacKeeeper by […]
he hacker did it “for the lulz,” no other reason.Anonymous have just released data online belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). The group justified the hack as “for the LulZ.” While most of the time the group takes up causes and carries out DDoS attacks, defaces websites, or breaches databases in behalf of these […]