“Pinkie Pie”, an under-21 hacker won $50,000 at the Pwn2Own contest, as he used drive-by attacks to take over a Samsung Galaxy S4 and a Nexus 4, both of which run Android.
Microsoft has opened a new Cybercrime Center – a war room where the tech giant’s lawyers and security experts will use bleeding-edge technology and industry expertise to battle crime online.
Hackers have accessed full card details for at least 376,000 people in a cyberattack on a “reward scheme” company, Loyaltybuild – as well as phone numbers and addresses for more than a million others.
More vulnerabilities have been discovered in a D-Link router, leaving the device vulnerable to attacks via its web interface – only weeks after the discovery of a “backdoor” in other D-Link devices.
A survey of 1,900 executives at clients of the accountancy firm Ernst and Young found that almost all (96%) felt “unprepared” for a cyberattack – due to budget cuts and lack of skilled staff.
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 […]
Previously, it had been estimated that around three million users had data accessed, but a new report by Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity revealed the true scale of the breach may have been far larger than thought – and that source code for software such as Photoshop may also have leaked.
Attackers used a Trojan program to target a security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road in Haifa, shutting down the road for hours, and causing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in damage.
The official website of National Security Agency (NSA) has been offline for last 30 minutes for unknown reason. It can be a DDoS attack or simply a maintenance issue, but for now its down and showing offline message. A screenshot taken from a website that shows domain up and down time shows that NSA site is […]
Cyber attacks have doubled in the year 2012-2013, according to a fraud report released by investigators Kroll – and the target is often information, rather than cash.
Cyberattacks seem to be a growth industry in Indonesia, with the region having pushed China off the top spot as the leading source of attack traffic in the last quarter, according to internet services provider Akamai.
The costs of cybercrime have continued to rise for victims, for the fourth consecutive year, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Each cyberattack now costs companies nearly $1 million to resolve, on average – and the annualized cost to a sample of U.S. organizations was $11.56 million.
Internet Explorer users will be a great deal safer from Tuesday onwards, after Microsoft announced a patch for a vulnerability that has been exploited by attackers “for months” according to some reports.
Cybercriminals are switching tactics, a leading security body has warned – and the combination of anonymisation technologies, mobile devices, and social media attacks could lead to cyberattacks with a “large impact”.
A stealthy banking Trojan known as Caphaw or Shylock has resurfaced – and is attacking customers of 24 American banks. It’s armed with defensive abilities including the power to “restore” itself during shutdown.
Microsoft has released an emergency fix for a vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer – warning that targeted attacks are already attempting to exploit it.
A YouTube video has been circulating on the internet for last couple of days in which online hackavist group Anonymous has called on Muslim hackers from around the world to join them in a joint operation against US and Israel on September 11, 2013 at the anniversary of 9/11 attacks in New York City. The […]
While the U.S is on the verge of attacking Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons on its people, a hacker going with the handle of ‘€Wagn3r’ has come forward with a bunch of email conversations between U.S military officials calling the chemical attack a ”staged operation”. Hacker claims that he hacked email id of Colonel […]
This world is a place of turmoil and threats. Every country, organization, persons or military from around the world claim, from time to time, that it or they has/have more power than others. Recently, a new such group has surfaced in print and electronic media. They are the SEA (Syrian Electronic Army). This group has […]
The website of the New York Times briefly disappeared this week, replaced by a banner saying, “Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army” – victim of an attack described as “sophisticated”. Twitter and the Huffington Post were also briefly affected.
Android has become a “primary” target for malware, and nearly half its users are open to attacks due to running old versions of the OS, according to an internal bulletin reportedly from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.