A researcher in China has discovered a design flaw in Microsoft Windows that affects all versions of the operating system—including Windows 10—and lets an attacker hijack a victim organization’s network traffic. Microsoft this week issued a patch for the so-called “BadTunnel” bug found by Yang Yu, director of Xuanwu Lab of Tencent in Beijing. Yu […]
Someone is hacking electronic sign boards in Texas and leaving messages in support of Bernie Sanders and Barrett Brown — While some messages are against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton! For hacktivists the most important part of the cyber attack is to deliver the message to the masses, usually they take over websites and leave […]
A YouTube video’s best day, traffic-wise, is usually the day it gets posted. Clicks generally decline quickly and post-launch spikes are rare. On Dec. 18, a year-old jihadist video called “Black Flags of Islam and Imam Mahdi” saw just such a spike, receiving enough views to reach about 70 percent of its best day’s traffic. […]
Kaspersky Lab’s Researcher Proves How Easy it is to Tamper with Moscow’s Traffic Sensors Thankfully, researchers of our age are not only interested in making everything smart and intelligent, but they are also thinking about making them safe and secure from prying eyes. Kaspersky Lab is one such company that stresses upon encouraging groundbreaking researches […]
Most ISPs that engage in this practice are owned by two of Asia’s biggest network operators, both located in China. Three researchers from Israel have conducted a study on the practice of content injection in network traffic, discovering that many Chinese-based ISPs are altering network packets to insert advertising and even malware, in some cases. […]
An unmodified default setting in Apache Web Servers revealed crucial details related to TOR traffic that passed through that server. It is a well-known fact that the hidden areas (or underworld) of the Internet such as The Dark Web can only be accessed through specialized services like I2p or Tor because these services are restricted […]
Default Settings In Apache Servers Can Leak Details about Tor traffic. This has happened the second time in this week. Leaving default setting open after the product has been released can cause serious problems for the product users. Earlier we had MediaTek leaving a debug tool meant for developers open after shipping which could let potential […]
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 […]
Backdoor in NetScreen firewalls gives attackers admin access, VPN decrypt ability. An operating system used to manage firewalls sold by Juniper Networks contains unauthorized code that surreptitiously decrypts traffic sent through virtual private networks, officials from the company warned Thursday. It’s not clear how the code got there or how long it has been there. […]
Short Bytes: Traffic fingerprinting is a technique used to sniff the web traffic by analyzing the data packets’ flow pattern- without removing the encryption. This technique has been recently used successfully to break the layers of anonymity of the Tor network users and hidden services. The Tor network is one of the most used popular system […]
Since the last two years, the privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo has witnessed a phenomenal 600% growth. The search engine was launched back in 2008 by Garbiel Weinberg and nobody expected to make any impression on the search market dominated by Google. Now after the seven years of its launch, this Philadelphia-based startup DuckDuckGo has […]
Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has seen traffic rocket after recent widely publicized privacy scares, according to the company.
Someone hacked into this electronic traffic signboard and left Drake’s Steph Curry song Lyrics. It is unclear who did it but they seem to be a fan of Canadian rapper. The NBA Finals are just round the corner and it has been six days since we saw basketball. Clearly, everyone got annoyed when the electronic street sign […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the official website of Thailand Senate and Public Health Ministry, ending up leaking login credentials against country’s alleged support for human trafficking. The Anonymous hacker behind the famous World Trade Organization (WTO) hack is back in news with yet another high-profile breach where login credentials of government officials have been leaked. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration must tighten the security around air traffic control in the United States, according to a new report filed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
A project had been announced by the U.S government’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last year which was to create a search engine that is powerful enough to dig deep in the web and bring out those websites that are not indexed by Google and other commercial search engines. The search engine that will […]
On Friday, several foreign-based virtual private network (VPN) providers reported a disruption in their services to Chinese users. Providers such as StrongVPN and Golden Frog noted that Chinese users faced difficulties in accessing some of their sites. The list of inaccessible sites kept changing each day. VPNs facilitate the connection between a computer, a smartphone […]
If you’ve ever sat in Los Angeles traffic, you probably have a good idea of what it’s like to lose the will to live. That’s why the mysterious and mischievous person who’s behind this story is such a damn hero. Someone recently hacked into an electronic traffic sign in downtown L.A. to display a very […]
This week saw two of the scariest targets for hacks ever – nuclear plants and city-wide traffic systems. Tthe traffic-light hack could basically have paralyzedany one of 40 American cities, and America’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission was successfully attacked three times within the past three years.
The most famous traffic light ‘hack’ in history is in the classic film, The Italian Job (1969), where the heist involves paralyzing Turin via its traffic control system – but the reality is much easier.
Israel’s military chief in his speech this month has pointed towards the fact that a computer sabotage due to some sophisticated cyber-attack is the most evident concern for the country. This speech of Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was not just words but was based on the fact that a major artery of the country’s road […]