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Bitcoin surged on Monday, recovering more than $1,000 after losing almost a third of its value in less than four days as traders bought back into the volatile cryptocurrency. Bitcoin tumbled in the second half of last week, falling as low as $5,555 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange on Sunday, a slide of almost 30 […]
News of the event was posted on Twitter by vigilante hacker, “The Jester,” who has in the past increased fame by hacking jihadist websites, and who in October 2016 destroyed the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the message, “Stop attacking Americans.” “A god amongst us has hijacked 6400kHz (North Korean station) […]
Blockchain.info is a bitcoin cryptocurrency wallet and block explorer service. Started in August 2011, the service presents information on new transactions, mined blocks in the bitcoin Blockchain charts on the bitcoin economy, and statistics and resources for developers. Security researcher (Shashank) has discovered a critical vulnerability in blockchain.info, he was able to steal anyone’s bitcoin […]
The tool itself is impressive enough, serving as the backbone of the CIA’s malware processes, but there’s more. What’s interesting about the first leak in the Vault 8 line is that it seems to show the agency portraying Kaspersky, by making use of a fake certificate for the anti-virus company. WikiLeaks describes the purpose and […]
In January, Huffman published the plan. In July, Reddit grew $200 million at a cost of $1.8 billion to redesign its website. The company began 2017 with some 140 employees. It now operates 250. Huffman believes Reddit wants to “catch up” in terms of look and feel before it can begin truly innovating. Reddit is […]
Today, 9 November 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the source code and development logs to Hive, a major component of the CIA infrastructure to control its malware. Hive solves a critical problem for the malware operators at the CIA. Even the most sophisticated malware implant on a target computer is useless if there is no way for […]
Turns out all they ought to do was ask Apple for help. In a comment the tech titan has issued to the media, it said it “quickly reached out to the FBI after receiving from their press conference on Tuesday that prosecutors were trying to access a mobile phone.” Cupertino extended its assistance and even […]
When ironed about how Yahoo failed to realize that 3 billion accounts and not 500 million as first proclaimed were endangered in what was later revealed to be a state-sponsored attack by Russia, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer indicated that the specifics of the attack still remain unknown. “To this day we have not been […]
A recent press release given by German police stated that they had made a substantial Darknet-related arrest after investigating a 43 year old man from Bedburg. They were also able to connect two accomplices that were involved in the operation. The man’s arrest had came from a raid executed by German special forces that target […]
The Google Play store has made headlines recently when cyber criminals were able to hack in and post a fake WhatsApp messenger update for download. More than a million Android phone users were tricked into downloading the app but the overall breach was relatively minor. Hackers were able to breach the store by adding a […]
Comcast verified the statements in a tweet on its customer care account. The outage seems to have begun around 1 PM ET. Some users reached intermittent or slow assistance, while others were incapable to access the web at all. Level3 issued this declaration after resolving the problem: “On Monday, November 6th, our system experienced a […]
A strange text error has left some iPhone users unable to write the letter “I”. But, every time they try to use the English first-person pronoun, it gets replaced by the letter A and an unprintable unicode character, normally presented as a question mark in a box (A[?]). The strange character combo looks as the […]
This scam email is nearly well designed. The scammers are using a template system to create individualized reports with specific recipient data. This works like a mail-merge; the body of the email is generic, but the sender field is composed to show the name of the indicated victim, which personalizes the scam getting it more […]
The FBI apprehended the suspect Trevor Graves, age 22 at the close of October, in Denver, his hometown. According to an FBI arrest warrant, the teen planted device keyloggers on several school computers. Graves had help from other classmates. One would plant the keylogger, while the another would attend class and verify a teacher had […]
Cybercriminals are known to take advantage of everything that’s popular among people in order to spread malware, and Google’s official Play Store has always proved no less than an excellent place for hackers to get their job done. Yesterday some users spotted a fake version of the most popular WhatsApp messaging app for Android on […]
A Facebook post promoting rape videos was also allowed to stay online despite being informed several times, the court listened, while police in the western state of Kerala allege different page was being practiced to run a child-sex ring. The three claims were raised during an Indian supreme court probe into how technology giants including […]
The Trump Organization dismissed the domain names were ever Hacked. But a review of internet credentials by the AP and cybersecurity specialists shows otherwise. And it was not until this past week, after the Trump tents were asked about it by the AP, that the last of the tampered-with directions were repaired. After the hack, […]
A rogue Twitter employee deactivated President Trump’s personal Twitter account (@realdonaldtrump) on his last day as a customer support rep for the social network. The account has been disappeared from the website for around 11 minutes. It’s not clear what occurred to the account, and Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. […]
Apple’s privacy signs do not spread to the thousands of app developers who will gain access to facial data in order to increase entertainment features for iPhone X customers, such as closing a three-dimensional mask to their face for a selfie or letting a video game style mirror the player’s real-world facial expressions. Apple allows […]
Cybercriminals decided to use the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to make their malicious links more widespread in the search results, allowing them to gain more victims with the Zeus Panda banking Trojan. This Zeus Panda group determined to use a group of hacked websites to insert keywords in new pages or hide the keywords inside […]
In 2013, Hackers apparently gained access to the Trump Organization’s domain booking account and created at least 250 website subdomains that cybersecurity specialists refer to as “shadow” subdomains. Each one of these shadow Trump subdomains guided to a Russian IP address, implying that they were hosted at these Russian addresses. Every website domain is connected […]