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A cyber attack and spy group believed to have ties with the Russian government reportedly attempted to hack the Dutch agency tasked with investigating the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster, according to a software security firm. An analysis of the Dutch Safety Board’s computer system revealed suspicious activity likely carried out by Russian spy group […]
TalkTalk, one of UK’s biggest telecoms, has suffered a “significant and sustained cyberattack” on their website, and it’s possible that personal and financial information of some 4 million of the company’s customers in the UK has been compromised as a result. Data of 4 million TalkTalk customers likely stolen in wake of website attack The […]
Sony has agreed to pay up to $8m over employees’ personal data lost in the 2014 hacking scandal surrounding the release of The Interview. Hackers had broken into the company’s computers and released thousands of items of personal information in an attempt to derail the release of the North Korea-themed comedy. Sony pays up to […]
My new Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone arrived yesterday after an interlude with a German customs agent and several days of delay. I first thought that I had to fight my way through a Chinese language interface but that was thankfully not the case. Since I want to run custom modifications on the device, I had […]
A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee into revealing the spy chief’s personal information. Using information like the four digits of Brennan’s bank card, which Verizon easily relinquished, the hacker and his […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous conducted powerful DDoS attacks on the official websites of two of the Japan‘s busiest airports and forced them to stay down for about 8 hours. The attack was conducted under the banner of #OpKillingBay, an online operation against the slaughter of Dolphin and trade to aquariums. Anonymous Shut Down Japanese Airport websites against Dolphin […]
UltraDNS, a web content delivery service, went down Thursday afternoon, taking with it a number of popular websites, including Netflix and Expedia. The cause of the 90-minute failure was an internal issue in a server on the East Coast and was not the result of an attack by hackers, said Lara Wyss, an UltraDNS spokeswoman. […]
Global law enforcement agencies have arrested a gang member behind the theft of £20 million ($30.7 million) via a piece of malicious software that records banking details, and are on the hunt for the remaining members. The malware – known as Dridex – is believed to be developed by in eastern Europe and it’s able […]
Flat, firewall-free network was a walk in the park, boffins say. Cyber Defence Summit An un-named Casino with next-to-no security has lost 150,000 credit cards after being raided by a new hacking group. Researchers Emmanuel Jean-Georges and Barry Vengerik of Mandiant and FireEye say the “Fin5” hacking group had last year skipped through the organisation’s […]
Dozens of successful attacks detected that install malicious code on company portals. Attackers are infecting a widely used virtual private network product sold by Cisco Systems to install backdoors that collect user names and passwords used to log in to corporate networks, security researchers said. A researcher from security firm Volexity told Ars that he’s […]
Malware that was active for over a year could have ‘accessed payment card information as it was being inputted,’ Trump Hotel Collection executives say. Presidential candidate and real-estate baron Donald Trump’s chain of high-end hotels “may have been the victim of a data security incident”, the company has informed customers. Donald Trump’s hotel chain reveals […]
Backdoor in Outlook Web Application operates inside target’s firewall. Researchers have uncovered advanced malware that can steal virtually all of a large organization’s e-mail passwords by infecting its Outlook Web Application (OWA) mail server over an extended period of time. Researchers from security firm Cybereason discovered the malicious OWA module after receiving a call from […]
Someone is hacking unprotected Wi-Fi routers everywhere — and forcing them to be on guard. Does your home Wi-Fi use a default password? It forces you to change it. Does it leave unguarded communication channels open? It forces you to close them. To experts, this seems like the work of a well intentioned hacker vigilante. […]
Even worse: Thousands of other sites are making the same facepalm-worthy mistake. Five days before Patreon.com officials said their donations website was plundered by hackers, researchers at a third-party security firm notified them that a serious programming error could lead to disastrous results. The researchers now believe the vulnerability was the entry point for attackers […]
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Credit-reporting agency Experian said on Thursday that hackers accessed the Social Security numbers, birthdates and other personal information belonging to about 15 million T-Mobile wireless customers. T Mobile hacked T-Mobile uses Experian to check customer credit. Experian said T-Mobile customers who applied for wireless service between Sept. 1, 2013, and Sept. 16, […]
A malicious advertising campaign has targeted top adult sites like Pornhub and YouPorn. Several of the world’s most popular pornographic websites were struck by cyberattacks in the past week, according a blog post by the malware hunting software firm Malwarebytes. Sites infected with malicious code included Pornhub and YouPorn, both owned by the Luxembourg-based adult […]
Simple e-mail exploit lets microconsole play dozens more games. When we gave our impressions of Sony’s Vita-based PlayStation TV microconsole last year, our biggest complaint was with the tiny unit’s widespread lack of compatibility with existing portable software. Hundreds of games that work just fine on the portable PlayStation Vitajust refused to load on a […]
Security firm Malwarebytes says a campaign of malware hidden inside online ads which hit search engine Yahoo earlier this year has now also appeared on adult websites. The advertising, apparently for a service called Sex Messenger, also contained tools for identifying whether the user was genuine rather than a bot. It appeared on porn site […]
A Chinese mobile app promotion company has created malicious adware that allows them to gain complete control of users’ Android devices. The company misuses this access to make the phones download additional apps and to show ads. Naturally, they get paid for installing these apps and promoting a variety of services. As their adware is […]
The data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is slowly shaping up to be one of the biggest hacks in the country’s history, the Department of Defense (DoD) revealing that, besides the personal information of over 21 million American government officials, the hackers might have gotten their hands on fingerprint records for […]
China’s “Great Firewall” may have been partly to blame for the first major attack on Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) App Store, but experts also point the finger at lax security procedures of some big-name Chinese tech firms and how Apple itself supports developers in its second biggest market. A malicious program, dubbed XcodeGhost, hit hundreds – […]